Remembering “A Great Fag”: Visualizing Public Memory and the Construction of Queer Space

Dunn, Thomas R.

doi:10.1080/00335630.2011.585168

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“…9 Others have carefully assembled variant readings of memory sites and interpreted those readings alongside site features. 10 In this essay, we join the scholarly project of expanding the scope of memory studies through an analysis of visitor response, by concentrating on the rhetorical texts produced when visitors attempt to represent their experiences of memory places. In this case, the features of Dickinson's letters permit two main contributions to scholarship on memory places: First, because of the complexity, depth, and rhetorical density of the letters, they offer the potential for a careful, micro-level investigation of the ways that a linguistically gifted individual can translate sensory experience into a verbal response suitable for transmission to others.…”

Section: The Pilgrim-critic In Places Of Memorymentioning

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A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson's Southern Tour of 1875

VanderHaagen

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2014

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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This essay examines accounts of visits to Civil War prison sites, cemeteries, and battlefields that were generated by the popular speaker Anna E. Dickinson during an 1875 lecture tour of Southern states. An ardent Unionist, Dickinson visited places that she believed to exemplify Union sacrifice and Confederate wrongdoing. We analyze her accounts-captured in letters to her mother-in order to understand how this rhetorically skilled public figure used these visits as opportunities for invention and interpretation, generating textual responses oriented toward public memory-making. We argue that her letters enact what we call a pilgrim-critic persona, which both demonstrates an affective connection to places and undertakes a critical investigation of what happened there. Employing the concept of the pilgrim-critic enables this analysis to contribute to rhetorical studies of public memory by highlighting the inventional resources used when visitors interpret their experiences of memory places.

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Section: The Pilgrim-critic In Places Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson's Southern Tour of 1875

VanderHaagen

Ray²

2014

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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“…19. More commonly, the inscription of the LGBTQ past in public space has explored memorialisation as a strategy for fostering LGBTQ acceptance (Orangias et al, 2018) and as a key terrain for conceptualising and contesting understandings of sexual identity (Dunn, 2011(Dunn, , 2014(Dunn, , 2016. 20.…”

Section: Towards a Disorderly Pastmentioning

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LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification

Spruce

2020

Environ Plan D

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This article draws on material from an ethnographic study in the gentrifying/gentrified London neighbourhood of Brixton to analyse the relationship between practices of LGBTQ territorialisation and the politics of neighbourhood change. It proceeds with two interrelated aims: to think critically about the ways in which LGBTQ claims to place-based belonging interact with racialised and classed ideologies of displacement and disciplining, and to explore memory’s significance in framing the relationship between LGBTQ people and place. ‘LGBTQ situated memory’ is thus introduced here as a concept that draws attention to the complex, contradictory and dynamic role that site-specific evocations of the past play in contemporary LGBTQ urban politics. By exploring three memory tropes that emerge in Brixton, I show that LGBTQ situated memory can be used to claim spatialised belonging, negotiate culpability for gentrification and disturb progress narratives. Ultimately this article both calls for, and works towards, an approach to sexual geography that foregrounds multiplicity: a multiplicity of LGBTQ situated histories and – as is reflected in the memories explored – a multiplicity of relationships between LGBTQ people and neighbourhood development.

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“…Antiracialism fosters a post race narrative of success that masks—or in the case of news coverage, strategically forgets—past and present-day policies and processes that privilege whiteness. Communication scholarship has explored the symbolic construction of public memory (Dickinson, Blair, & Ott, 2010) highlighting rhetorical processes of “selective amnesia” (Hoerl, 2012), “strategic forgetting” (Sturken, 1997), “omission” (Zelizer, 1992), and “countermemory” (Dunn, 2011), thus pointing to the culturally negotiated, partial, and politicized nature of collective public memory. Strategic forgetting works to silence histories, structures, and processes of oppression that privilege whiteness.…”

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Whitewashing City Spaces

Triece

2017

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Despite the tangible and documented impact race plays in questions of housing, employment, education, and health, discourses of antiracialism perpetuate the idea race—and by extension, racism—is no longer a relevant marker of disparity. In this alleged “post race” context, how do news accounts cover stories on urban crisis and renewal? This article takes up scholarly calls to develop “conceptual tools” that may enable critical scholars to explore how racism continues undercover in the 21st century. I argue for the importance of exploring how strategic forgetting operates in conjunction with the familiar and formulaic frame of personalization to erase or evade the continued presence of structured, systemic racism in the (re)construction/renewal of city spaces.

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Remembering “A Great Fag”: Visualizing Public Memory and the Construction of Queer Space

Cited by 25 publications

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A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson's Southern Tour of 1875

A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson's Southern Tour of 1875

LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification

Whitewashing City Spaces

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