Toward a Post-Structural Monumentality Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Toward a Post-Structural Monumentality

Creator

  • Author: Saindon, Brent Allen
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Lain, Brian A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Bennett, Jeffrey
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Taylor, Kelly Shaver
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2006-08
  • Digitized: 2008-04-02

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This study addresses a tension in contemporary studies of public memory between ideology criticism and postmodern critique. Both strategies of reading public memory rely on a representational logic derived from the assumption that the source for comparison of a memory text occurs in a more fundamental text or event. Drawing heavily from Michel Foucault, the study proposes an alternative to a representational reading strategy based on the concepts of regularity, similitude, articulation, and cultural formation. The reading of Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Galveston County Vietnam Memorial serves as an example of a non-representational regularity enabled by the cultural formation of pastoral power.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Public history -- United States.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: War memorials -- United States.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: War memorials -- Texas -- Galveston.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Vietnam Memorial (Galveston, Tex.)
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Postmodernism.
  • Keyword: post-structuralism
  • Keyword: public memory
  • Keyword: cultural formation
  • Keyword: Michel Foucault
  • Keyword: Galveston County Vietman Memorial
  • Keyword: Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Saindon, Brent Allen
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 74731216
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc5346

Degree

  • Degree Name: Master of Science
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Discipline: Communication Studies
  • Academic Department: Department of Communication Studies
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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