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Monuments to absence : Cherokee removal and the contest over southern memory. Andrew Denson

Denson, Andrew copyright 2017

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  • Titre:
    Monuments to absence : Cherokee removal and the contest over southern memory. Andrew Denson
  • Titres liés: Monuments to absence
  • Auteur: Denson, Andrew
  • Éditeur: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina press, copyright 2017
  • Sujets: Cherokee (Indiens), Déportation des (1838) -- Opinion publique;
    Mémoire collective -- États-Unis (sud);
    Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 -- Public opinion;
    Cherokee Indians -- Relocation -- Public opinion;
    Collective memory -- Southern States
  • Notes: Existe aussi en version électronique
    Notes bibliogr. p. [230]-258. Bibliogr. p. [259]-276. Index
  • Contient: Removal and the Cherokee Nation The tourists : basking in Cherokee history in southern Appalachia The centennial : Chattanooga marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the Trail of Tears The capital : remembering Cherokee removal in civil rights-era Georgia The drama : performing Cherokee removal in the termination era The remembered community : public memory and the reemergence of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma The national trail
  • Résumé: La 4e de couverture indique : "In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. White southerners, Denson argues, embraced the Trail of Tears as a story of Indian disappearance. Commemorating Cherokee removal affirmed white possession of southern places, while granting them the moral satisfaction of acknowledging past wrongs. During segregation and the struggle over black civil rights, removal memorials reinforced whites' authority to define the South's past and present. Cherokees, however, proved capable of repossessing the removal memory, using it for their own purposes during a time of crucial transformation in tribal politics and U.S. Indian policy. In considering these representations of removal, Denson brings commemoration of the Indian past into the broader discussion of race and memory in the South."
  • Langue: Anglais
  • Date d'édition: copyright 2017
  • Identifiant: 978-1-4696-3082-3 ; 978-1-4696-3083-0
  • Desc. matérielle: 1 vol. (xii, 289 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 25 cm
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