The Kent State Memorial to the Slain Vietnam War Protestors: Interpreting the Site and Visitors' Responses

by Weiss, Kathryn J.; Ackeman, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780773451216
• ISBN10: 0773451218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-18
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

Through the lenses of Multimodal literacy and material rhetoric, this book examines the site where, in 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen dispersing a Vietnam War protest shot into a crowd of Kent State Students, killing four and wounding nine.

Author Biography

Dr. Weiss is currently a Visiting Professor of Rhetoric at Wabash College.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Literacy, Materiality, and Public Memorials	p. 1
Material Rhetoric and the Materiality of Rhetoric	p. 25
Ambiguity in the Epideictic Tradition	p. 39
The Brochure and the Site: Official Constructions of Space and History	p. 57
Twelve Visitors' Perspectives: An Interview and Protocol Study	p. 83
The Map and the Site: Visitors' Constructions of Space and History	p. 111
Visitors Search for Marks of Relevance	p. 131
"Offerings" and the Space of Material Rhetoric	p. 157
A Theory of Material Rhetoric	p. 173
Material Rhetoric, Qualitative Research, and the Humanities in the World	p. 183
Interview Scripts	p. 187
List of Artifacts Mentioned by Participants	p. 195
Written Sections of the Brochure	p. 199
The White Papers	p. 209
References	p. 211
Leaning toward the Material Sphere: Additional Sources	p. 217
Index	p. 219
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