Advances in the History of Rhetoric May 2017

Confederate Memory in Post-Confederate Atlanta—a Prolegomena

Christopher Lee Adamczyk

Abstract

ABSTRACT The landscape surrounding a memory site strongly influences how it is perceived by the people who visit it. As landscapes are prone to change over time, it is important to acknowledge the ways that such change exerts influence over visitors’ experiences. Through a historically oriented in situ investigation of Atlanta’s Civil War commemoration sites, I reconstruct a narrative from that city’s history that demonstrates how changing contexts, physical and social, can influence both the use of memory sites and the construction of future memory sites. I suggest that change in these sites’ fragmented surroundings prompted the construction of new monuments that were chiefly informed by ideological inadequacies created by transformed landscapes at older memory sites.

Journal
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2017-05-04
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2017.1325413
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    Remembering Emmett Till: Reflections on Geography, Race, and Memory
    Advances in the History of Rhetoric
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