Places Gather, Persons Re-Collect: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory Places

• In Event: Rhetorical Engagements with Space, Place, and Memory

Abstract

This paper offers a new perspective for studying places of memory. Specifically, it suggests moving from approaches that treat memory places as texts to an orientation that examines: (1) how places gather discourses, (2) how individuals, beyond the critic, re-collect discursive fragments within the place, (3) how the notion of "the rhetorical experiences of persons with/in places" may serve as a locus of analysis for such work, and (4) a case study, and (5) implications.

Authors

• Roger C. Aden, Ohio University

• Min Wha Han, Ohio University

• Michael Edward Pfahl, Ohio University

• Timothy Paul Pollock, Ohio University

• Stephanie N Norander, Ohio University

• Stephanie L Young, Ohio University