Reading Confederate Monuments.
A timely engagement with Confederate monuments and meaning-making in a literary context.
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- READING CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How and Why to Read Confederate Monuments
- READING Reading Confederate Monuments as Texts and in Textual Contexts
- Chapter 1: Complicating Today's Myth of the Myth of the Lost Cause: The Calhoun Monument, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation
- Chapter 2: Print Culture and the Enduring Legacy of Confederate War Monuments
- Chapter 3: South by Southwest: Confederate and Conquistador Memorials Crossing/Closing Borders
- CULTURAL PRODUCTION Reading Literary and Cultural Texts as Confederate Monuments and Counter-Monuments
- Chapter 4: Weaponizing Silent Sam: Heritage Politics and The Third Revolution
- Chapter 5: "Wasting the Past": Albion Tourgée, Confederate Memory, and the Politics of Context
- Chapter 6: Redeeming White Women in/through Lost Cause Films
- Chapter 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
- PEDAGOGY Reading Confederate Monuments and Counter-Monuments for How They Teach Belonging and Social Justice
- Chapter 8: Rewriting the Landscape: Black Communities and the Confederate Monuments They Inherited
- Chapter 9: Battle of the Billboards: White Supremacy and Memorial Culture in #Charlottesville
- Chapter 10: Teaching Confederate Monuments as American Literature
- Conclusion: Challenging Monumentality, Channeling Counter-Monumentality
- Afterword
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- About the Contributors
