When Memories and Discourses Collide: The President's House and Places of Public Memory

Aden, Roger C.

doi:10.1080/03637751.2011.646489

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“…"Some of them seem to be related to the type of site-plantation, park, battleground, national historic site, market, or museum, and how those purposes blend and blur. I've read this in other literature also" (Aden 2012;Iles 2006;Pezzulo 2003;Wallace 1981).…”

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“…These diverse purposes are not bounded; they often overlap, blur, and blend. One common thread shared by the sites we discuss in this paper is that they have now become "places of public memory" or "cultural heritage sites" (Aden 2012;Chambers 2006;Kammen 1991;Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1991;McKercher and duCross 2002), and therefore, are now all cultural reproductions as well as familial, economic and capitalistic productions.…”

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“…These are conversations that civic groups and civic planners; museum foundations and stakeholders; politicians and religious leaders; and constituents representing diverse standpoints continue to have. We are not the first scholars to study, document, and struggle to understand the motives and meanings, differences and preferences with regard to interpretations at cultural heritage sites (Aden 2012;Bird 2002;Butler, Carter and Dwyer 2008;Carter, Butler and Dwyer 2011;Iles 2006;Key 2012;Miller 2014;Montes and Butler 2008;Wallace 1981). These are not new tensions.…”

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Absence, Revision, and the Other: Rhetorics of South Carolina Antebellum Tourism Sites

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Davis

Warren‐Findlow

2016

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The production of tourism situated within an antebellum history is fraught with tension. Moralities, power conflicts, and identities clash as tourist production based on historical apartheid in the United States proliferates and becomes more popular and profitable. Southern states such as South Carolina are particularly subject to such concerns. As one of the original thirteen colonies, South Carolina was a profitable participant in the plantation system, a system built upon rhetorics of absence, revision, and hatred. These rhetorical constructions effectively created a view of enslaved Africans that "othered" and minimized them and erased their presence, importance, and humanity. The resulting ethnocentrism, racism, and oppression still exists today within the American cultural and political landscapes. South Carolina-also the veteran of major revolts, wars, secessions, and occupations throughout its history-was a slave state for its first two hundred years. During these colonial and antebellum periods, its enslaved primarily black population outnumbered white people by the ratio of four to one (Lockley and Doddington 2012). Today, South Carolina offers a popular tourist vista dotted with homesteads, plantations, parks, battlegrounds, national historic sites, markets, and museums all originating from and documenting our nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery (Calhoun 1837). Within this cultural landscape filled with historical reproduction, a visitor might expect to find the presence of blacks-enslaved and free-permeating the presentations, performances, contexts, messages, and documentations of life in the South; such is not always the case. Communication about the experience of slavery varies widely among tourism locales within the state and is often marked more by a rhetoric of erasure, of an absence, than of a participation filled with power, production, and presence. The instances of thoughtful, varied, significant, and historically accurate inclusions of the experience of slavery on and within these historical sites contrast sharply with the absences and inaccuracies that characterize some of the other tourism offerings. In this critical rhetorical analysis of a series of tourism locales, we present and theorize rhetorics of absence and revision across multiple sites in coastal South Carolina, from Georgetown south to Charleston. Bisected by U.S. 17, this former "King's Highway" was the only land route serving 17 18

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confidence: 99%