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Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork
Reading Confederate Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret the literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading life in the contemporary United States.
The literary and cultural studies scholars featured in this collection engage many different archives and methods, demonstrating how to read literal Confederate monuments as texts and in the context of the assortment of literatures that produced and celebrated them. They further explore how to read the literary texts advancing and contesting Confederate ideology in the US cultural imaginary—then and now—as monuments in and of themselves. On top of that, the essays published here lay bare the cultural and pedagogical work of Confederate monuments and counter-monuments—divulging how and what they teach their readers as communal and yet contested narratives—thereby showing why the persistence of Confederate monuments matters greatly to local and national notions of racial justice and belonging. In doing so, this collection illustrates what critics of US literature and culture can offer to ongoing scholarly and public discussions about Confederate monuments and memory.
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Reading Confederate Monuments teaches us that even as we remove, relocate, and recontextualize the physical symbols of the Confederacy dotting the US landscape, the complicated histories, cultural products, and pedagogies of Confederate ideology remain embedded in the national consciousness. To disrupt and potentially dismantle these enduring narratives alongside the statues themselves, we must be able to recognize, analyze, and resist them in US life. The pieces in this collection position us to think deeply about how and why we should continue that work.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byMason Jackson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
2Introduction: How and Why to Read Confederate Monuments
3Chapter 1: Complicating Today's Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause: The Calhoun Monument, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation
4Chapter 2: Print Culture and the Enduring Legacy of Confederate War Monuments
5Chapter 3: South by Southwest: Confederate and Conquistador Memorials Crossing/Closing Borders
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6Chapter 4: Weaponizing Silent Sam: Heritage Politics and The Third Revolution
7Chapter 5: "Wasting the Past": Albion Tourgée, Confederate Memory, and the Politics of Context
8Chapter 6: Redeeming White Women in/through Lost Cause Films
9Chapter 7: Performing Counter-Monumentality of the Civil War in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2, and 3
10Chapter 8: Rewriting the Landscape: Black Communities and the Confederate Monuments They Inherited
11Chapter 9: Battle of the Billboards: White Supremacy and Memorial Culture in #Charlottesville
12Chapter 10: Teaching Confederate Monuments as American Literature
13Conclusion: Challenging Monumentality, Channeling Counter-Monumentality
14Afterword
15Closing Credits
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