Memory, Critical Theory, and the Argument from History

Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places

“…We add ''with'' to Casey's phrase in order to emphasize the interaction of persons with/in places of memory. 7 Other scholars working in this area, of course, have referred to processes of refiguring and/or recollecting (e.g., Blair, 2006;Cox, 1990;Stormer, 2003). 8 As Hyde and Smith (1979) observe: ''If the hermeneutical situation is the 'reservoir' of meaning, then rhetoric is the selecting tool for making-known this meaning.…”

“…McGee's second structural relationship, between an apparently finished discourse and culture, allows us to understand how these individual re‐collections coalesce into, and branch out among, various social groups. “Recollection is the process whereby beings move to their interior, ‘collect’ once more their parts together (re‐collection), or ‘re‐member’ themselves, reconstitute their members” (Cox, 1990, p. 3). In other words, we can examine how the confluence of the site as a re‐collection of fragments and the individual interpreters as compilers of fragments produces different communities of memory.…”

“…7 7 Other scholars working in this area, of course, have referred to processes of refiguring and/or recollecting (e.g., Blair, 2006; Cox, 1990; Stormer, 2003). …”

Performing critical interruptions: Stories, rhetorical invention, and the environmental justice movement

“…4 Farrell (1990) provides a brief synopsis of "the centrality of rhetorical invention" and the influences of "serious studies of creativity and discovery" to the development of the field of rhetoric as an art (p. 79). For further research on rhetorical invention, see: McKeon, 1966;Gronbeck, 1972;Leff, 1983;Cox, 1987Cox, , 1990aCox, , 1990bCox, , 1990cLeFevre, 1987;Young, 1987;McKerrow, 1989;Conquergood, 1991;andFarrell, 1991, 1993. 5 The following summary was derived from several sources, including Labalme, 1987;Geiser & Waneck, 1994;Freudenberg, 1994;and Kaplan, 1997.…”

Mario Van Peebles'sPantherand Popular Memories of the Black Panther Party

“…Recognizing how depictions of past events carry implications for contemporary social life, several scholars have suggested that popular memories might also be constructed to challenge prevailing hegemony. Cox (1990) theorizes memories of the past as resources for the "invention" of discourses critical of dominant culture (p. 1). Cox cites Marcuse, who believed that the practice of remembering could reveal ideological distortions embedded within dominant narratives and serve as a force for social change.…”