TY - JOUR
T1 - Rhetorical spaces in memorial places
T2 - The cemetery as a rhetorical memory place/space
AU - Wright, Elizabethada A.
PY - 2005/9/1
Y1 - 2005/9/1
N2 - Focusing on a seacoast New Hampshire African American burying ground and the grave of a white woman buried in a Massachusetts rural cemetery, this article considers how the essential nature of the cemetery makes it both a very usual and unusual memory place. Considering de Certeau’s distinctions between space and place as well as Foucault’s definition of a heterotopia, this paper argues that the paradoxes of the heterotopia combined with the symbolism and materiality of the grave make the cemetery a particularly potent lieu de mémoire for those otherwise forgotten in public memory.
AB - Focusing on a seacoast New Hampshire African American burying ground and the grave of a white woman buried in a Massachusetts rural cemetery, this article considers how the essential nature of the cemetery makes it both a very usual and unusual memory place. Considering de Certeau’s distinctions between space and place as well as Foucault’s definition of a heterotopia, this paper argues that the paradoxes of the heterotopia combined with the symbolism and materiality of the grave make the cemetery a particularly potent lieu de mémoire for those otherwise forgotten in public memory.
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U2 - 10.1080/02773940509391322
DO - 10.1080/02773940509391322
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85011531847
SN - 0277-3945
VL - 35
SP - 51
EP - 81
JO - Rhetoric Society Quarterly
JF - Rhetoric Society Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -