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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. 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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. How and why to read Confederate monuments / Maria Seger
• Reading: reading Confederate monuments as texts and in textual contexts. Complticating today's myth of the myth of the Lost Cause: the Calhoun Monument, reconstruction, and reconciliation / Brook Thomas
• Print culture and the enduring legacy of Confederate war monuments / Michael C. Weisenburg
• South by southwest: Confederate and Conquistador memorials crossing/closing borders / Spencer R. Herrera
• Cultural production: reading literary and cultural texts as Confederate monuments and counter-monuments. Weaponizing Silent Sam: heritage politics and The Third Revolultion / Danielle Christmas
• "Wasting the past": Albion Tourgée, Confederate memory, and the politics of context / Garrett Bridger Gilmore
• Redeeming white women in/through Lost Cause films / Maria Seger
• 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 / Stacie McCormick
• Pedagogy: reading Confederate monuments and counter-monuments for how they teach belonging and social justice. Rewriting the landscape: Black communities and the Confederate monuments they inherited / Cassandra Jackson
• Battle of the billboards: white supremacy and memorial culture in #Charlottesville / Lisa Woolfork
• Teaching Confederate monuments as American literature / Randi Lynn Tanglen
• Conclusion. Challenging monumentality, channelling counter-monumentality / Maria Seger
• Afterword / Joanna Davis-McElligatt.

Contributors:

Seger, Maria C. , editor

Davis-McElligatt, Joanna , writer of afterword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Reading Confederate monuments (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 — ISBN 9781496841636; LCCN 2022019451)

Subjects:

Soldiers' monuments — Southern States — History and criticism

Lost Cause mythology

Collective memory in art

Collective memory in literature

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Monuments

American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)

1861-1865

Soldiers' monuments

Monuments

United States

Southern States

United States — Confederate States of America

Genres:

Essays

Literary criticism

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 15, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 268 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PS228.R32 R43 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781496841674 (electronic book)
1496841670 (electronic book)
9781496841650 (electronic book)
1496841654 (electronic book)
9781496841667 (electronic book)
1496841662 (electronic book)
9781496841681 (electronic book)
1496841689 (electronic book)
9781496841636 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781496841643 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022019452

OCLC Numbers:

1327843915