This essay describes the commemorative response to shootings that occurred at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007 and draws attention to the liminal stage between the appearance of the temporary April 16
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memorial and its permanent replacement. Analysis reveals that the "place-dictates" used by those granted place-making authority over the construction of the permanent memorial provide important clues concerning the intended ideologies and subject positions prescribed through the site and the extent to which the public accepted such prescriptions. Attention to these "place-dictates" reveals the ways in which the institution aimed to
camouflage its intentions by mimicking the vernacular design of the
temporary memorial.
How does memory for the public past differ from memory for the personal past? Across five experiments (N = 457), we found that memories of the personal past were characterised by a positivity bias, ...whereas memories of the public past were characterised by a negativity bias. This valence-based dissociation emerged regardless of how far back participants recounted the personal and public past, whether or not participants were asked to think about significant events, how much time participants were given to retrieve relevant personal and public memories, and also generalised across various demographic categories, including gender, age, and political affiliation. Along with recent work demonstrating a similar dissociation in the context of future thinking, our findings suggest that personal and public event cognition fundamentally differ in terms of access to emotionally salient events. Direct comparisons between personal and public event memory should represent a fruitful avenue for research on event cognition.
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Historical fiction has long been one of television's most prominent genres. It was not until the advent of streaming TV in the 21
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century, however, that the genre reached its radical feminist ...potential. Written, directed, produced by and starring women, contemporary women's historical fiction has exploded as both a marketable and an ideological genre. Three series - Good Girls Revolt (Amazon, 2016), Mrs. America (Hulu, 2020), and Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, 2014-17)-exemplify women's challenge to the orthodoxy of male-driven historical fiction. These three shows not only reclaim women's 20
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Century American histories, but they also refute accepted conceptualizations of the genre and of History itself. Through circular storytelling, the blending of fact and fiction, and new female archetypes, these three series narrate coherent and consistent women's histories heretofore missing in popular memory. From this foundation, these series discuss, debate, and fantasize about women's lived experiences in the past, as well as commenting on the present and dreaming about the future of women's lives and desires.
This essay examines 19: The Musical-a memorial project that marks the suffrage centennial. The author employs an intersectional lens to examine the arguments this memorialization makes about a ...suffrage past as well as a feminist present and future. This intersectional emphasis is especially important given the prevalent present-day assumption of the suffrage movement as an entirely white women's endeavor-one that especially forgets the racism and exclusivity that riddled the suffrage movement.
Huddled masses Raudon, Sally
Human remains and violence : an interdisciplinary journal,
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When drone footage emerged of New York City’s COVID-19 casualties being
buried by inmates in trenches on Hart Island, the images became a key symbol for
the pandemic: the suddenly soaring death toll, ...authorities’ struggle to
deal with overwhelming mortality and widespread fear of anonymous, isolated
death. The images shocked New Yorkers, most of whom were unaware of Hart Island,
though its cemetery operations are largely unchanged since it opened over 150
years ago, and about one million New Yorkers are buried there. How does Hart
Island slip in and out of public knowledge for New Yorkers in a cycle of
remembering and forgetting – and why is its rediscovery shocking? Perhaps
the pandemic, understood as a spectacular event, reveals what has been there,
though unrecognised, all along.
Nourished by the cultural exuberance of second wave feminism, Helaine Victoria Press was a home-grown effort of two young women, Jocelyn Cohen and Nancy Poore, who learned how to print, established a ...printshop, and became the first publishers of women’s history postcards. The authors of Women Making History demonstrate that by creating postcards, Helaine Victoria Press aimed to do more than provide a convenient writing surface or even affect collective memory. Instead, they argue, the press generated feminist memory. The cards, each with the picture of a woman or group of women from history, were multimodal. Pictures were framed in colors and borders appropriate to the era and subject. Lengthy captions offered details about the lives of the women pictured. Unlike other memorials, the cards were mobile: they traveled through the postal system, viewed along the way by the purchasers, mail sorters, mail carriers, and recipients. Upon arriving at their destinations, cards were often posted on office bulletin boards or refrigerators at home, where surroundings shaped their meanings. This is the first book to demonstrate the relationships between the feminist art movement, the women in print movement, and the scholars studying women’s history. Readers will be drawn to both the large quantity of illustrative materials and the theoretical framework of the book, as it provides an expanded understanding of rhetorical multimodality.
Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant ...societies, as their perspectives are excluded from traditional modes of marking public memory. For the first time in European history, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue - with first-hand knowledge of the eight European capitals in which they live. Highlighting existing monuments, memorials, and urban markers they discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and places relevant to Black European history, which continues to be obscured today.
