NAME:____________________

 

Worksheet 1:

Foote, Shadowed Ground, Chap. 1

FOCUS: A discussion of the four underlying logics about how violence and tragedy are memorialized -- the strategies of representation used to contain painful memories and use them as part of national identity.

LOGIC: Foote describes how various memorials "work" for their observers, usually as one of four logic patterns, in order to argue that such memorials act to establish a cultural collective memory that makes a national unity thinkable.

Information Matrix

       Strategy and its example       
       How it works as memorial       

SANCTIFICATION

 

 

DESIGNATION

 

 

RECTIFICATION

 

 

OBLITERATION

 

 

IMPLICATION: (HINT at a possible approach: Why these logics? What is Foote implying about US history, in particular?)

 

  

 NAME:____________________

 

Worksheet 2:

Foote, Shadowed Ground, Chap. 4

 

FOCUS: Foote takes monuments with "Heroic Lessons" to convey to the public, and shows how each works for its community, in order to argue what kind of memory it is inculcating in its viewers.

LOGIC: A monument based on a certain logic is chosen and its underlying history discussed, and then the implications of these representations are presented.

INFORMATION MATRIX

 

       Monument and its Logic       

       What it is designed to convey       
(give 3-4 examples)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMPLICATION: (Hint: does Foote convince you? Why or why not?)

 

 

 

NAME:____________________

 

Worksheet 3:

Foote, Shadowed Ground, Chap. 9

FOCUS: Foote concludes his discussion of memorials to argue that the US historical imagination does not deal well with tragedy or conflict.

LOGIC: Foote speculates on the future of various memorial sites (actual or potential) in order to underscore unresolved conflicts in US historical memory.

INFORMATION MATRIX

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2)

 

 

3)

 

 

 

IMPLICATIONS:

 

NAME:____________________

 

Worksheet 4:

Anderson, Imagined Communities
Chapter 5: Old Langauges, New Models

FOCUS: Anderson discusses how "national print languages" came to play a role in the development of national identities and "imagined communities

LOGIC:

 

INFORMATION MATRIX

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2)

 

 

3)

 

 

 

IMPLICATIONS: