Interpreting Sacred Ground - The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields

Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions--and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity--compete for dominance.

About the author

J. Christian Spielvogel is associate professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and director of Entrepreneurship as Advocacy Concentration at Penn State University

Summary

Offers a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions - and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity - compete for dominance.

Product details

• Authors: J Christian Spielvogel, J. Christian Spielvogel
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780817360184
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6018-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries