King Returns to Washington: Explorations of Memory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial

Exploring the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial (King Memorial) in Washington, DC through a multi-faceted rhetorical analysis of the site's visual and textual components, Jefferson Walker reveals multiple critical, popular, privileged, and vernacular interpretations of the site and...

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Main Author: Walker, Jefferson
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2016, 2016
Series:Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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