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AMST 384 1st Edition Lecture 17Outline of Last Lecture II. Historical version of Beloved Outline of Current Lecture III. Foote’s PieceLecture: Geography (Foote Piece)Shadowed Ground- book by Foote that explores what happens to spaces after the tragic event Memorial Mania-Erika Doss’s book in 2010- Asks why do American’s create these spaces of memory?- How are sociopolitical concerns such as racism and violence negotiated in these spaces?- How do memorials represent and also repress national consciousness?- Memorial Mania as “affective culture”o Memorials are “archives of public affect, repositories of feelings and emotions’ that are embodied in their material form and narrative content”-Erika DossMaterial Sites of Memory- Geography: “earth writing” durable inscriptions on the landscape- Human modifications of the environment are often related to the way societies wish to sustain and efface memories- Landscape is a “sort of communicational resource, a system of signs and symbols, capable of extending the temporal and spatial range of communication” (Foote 33)- Photographs are now material sites of memory, may spark the rememberance of a once forgotten memoryKenneth Foote- How people view violence and tragedy over long periods of time and develop a sense of their past- A complex iterative process in which places spurs debate, debate leads to interpretation, and interpretation reshapes place over and over again- How people create, sustain, and break emotional attachments to place and landscape - There are emotional responses to tragic/violence eventsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Example of Material Sites: 1. Slave house in Cincinnati- Made official by being brought into museum 2. Door of No Return- Gorree Island, Senegal - Door that leads to the entry of slavery and boarding slave ships- When they entire back through the door, the return to Africa after the holocaust of slavery3. Morrison’s Bench - Bench that faces ocean to Africa- Where one can sit and reflect on slavery’s past- Site of memoryQuotes:“Memory comes into being only after the trace which marks it: there is no thing, no event, feeling to remember, there is only that present which an empty past brings into being” –Juliet Mitchell- Which came first? The event or the memory?“Memory is culturally mediated material practice embodied by acts and semantically dense objects” – C. Nadia Serematakis- When does a sound become music? How slavery has not been forgotten: Sites of Memory- Richmond Slaery Reconciliation Statueo The triangle: in England, West Africa, and Virginia where reflected on the triangles of trade o The site is in the shape of a triangle to reflect this - African American Monument in Savannah Georgiao Statue of family in Georgia o Today they are standing together with joy after being stolen, sold and brought together finally in their African continent Rectification- Foote’s term about act of forgetting what occurred at that site and letting it go back to normal as if the event never happened, go back into circulation- Ex: the apartment building where the 3 Muslims who were killed in Chapel Hill diedo What to do with the apartment? Make it a memorial site? Sell it to new family?-take vernacular memory of the flowers outside and make it more official with a plague of remembrance Remediation- a change made as a result of the tragic issue - People think this was a parking issue, so should the state make more parking spaces now?“The tangible past is altered mainly to make history conform with memory. Memory not only conserves the past but adjusts recall the current events. Instead of remembering exactly what was, we make the past intelligible in the light of present circumstances” –David Lowenthal in Foote’s Shadowed GroundKey Terms in Foote’s Piece:1. Sanctification (aka sacralization, consecration, veneration)- occurs when events are seen to hold some lasting positive meaning that people wish to rememeber, a natural response to the grief of community loss, occurs only in those few situations where disaster inspires a sense of communal or collective loss-teaches ethical or moral lessons-involves the construction of a durable marker or monument- Factors: is this a national scale or community wide loss? -the prominence and magnitude of tragedy matters “Fields of Care”-Clearly bounded from the surrounding environment and marked with great specifity about what occurredthere-Annual gatherings at the spaces-A change of ownership form private to public stewardship-attractsaddictional monuments througha process of Accretion-can become a rallying point 2. Designation- the marking of a site that ismply denotes that something happened therea. Marked but not sanctified, unveiled rather than dedicatedb. Transitional and “in process”, can move toward sanctification3. Rectification- removing the signs of violence and tragedy and returning the site to use, implying there are no lasting positive or negative meaning, goes back to normala. Process through which a tragedy site is put right and used again, reintegrated into the activities of everyday life, exonerated of involvemet in the tragedyb. The rule for the vast majority of sites touched by violence and tragedyc. Common to “senseless” accidents4. Obliteration- results from particularly shameful events people would prefer to forgeta. All evidence is destroyed or effaced not just cleansed but scouredb. Once stigmatized, they stand out as much as sacred places i. They are breaks in the textures of landscape that are noticeable by way of contrast with their surroundings ii. Can excite pathological and furitive interestc. Can become abandoned sites of


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