A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

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dc.contributor.authorBohland, Jon Donalden
dc.contributor.committeechairLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberNelson, Scott G.en
dc.contributor.committeememberToal, Gerarden
dc.contributor.committeememberLa Berge, Ann F.en
dc.contributor.departmentPublic and International Affairsen
dc.coverage.stateVirginiaen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:17:02Zen
dc.date.adate2006-11-09en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:17:02Zen
dc.date.issued2006-09-22en
dc.date.rdate2009-11-09en
dc.date.sdate2006-10-03en
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines issues of neo-Confederate collective memory, heritage, and geographical imagination within the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I analyze a whole range of material cultural practices throughout the entire region centered on the memory of the Civil War including monuments, battlefields, museum exhibits, burial rituals, historical reenactments, paintings, and dramatic performances. These mnemonic sites and rituals throughout the Great Valley of Virginia serve to circulate a dominant and mythologized reading of the Civil War past, one that emphasizes the Lost Cause myth of the Confederacy. In addition to uncovering neo-Confederate forms of memorialization, I also examine how normative lessons of morality, honor, patriotism, masculinity, and hyper-militarism become naturalized as a result of Lost Cause remembrance. The dissertation combines qualitative, practice-based modes of research with a Foucauldian influenced archival methodology that attempts to uncover particular silenced and alternative versions of the past that do not fit with normative version of heritage.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-10032006-093242en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10032006-093242/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/29177en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartJBohlandDissertation.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcultural geographyen
dc.subjectcollective memoryen
dc.subjectlandscapeen
dc.subjectShenandoah Valleyen
dc.subjectneo-Confederate nationalism.en
dc.subjectFoucaulten
dc.subjectheritage tourismen
dc.subjectidentityen
dc.subjectLost Causeen
dc.titleA Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginiaen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic and International Affairsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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