GENRES OF MEMORY AND ASIAN/AMERICAN WOMEN’S ACTIVISM

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dc.contributor.advisorEnoch, Jessicaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBramlett, Katieen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-22T05:40:03Z
dc.date.available2022-06-22T05:40:03Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractAs human rights and racial inequality dominate public discourse, it has become increasingly clear that Americans are invested in conversations of public memory. The removal of confederate monuments and demands for equity in memorialization for people of color underscore the point that who is remembered and how they are honored is important. Further, the growing awareness of violence against Asian/Americans and the hate crime against Asian/American women in Atlanta has emphasized the need to understand the history of violence against Asian/Americans, Asian/American gendered stereotypes, and the Asian/American activists who fight for equal rights. This dissertation examines three distinct memorial genres—a statue, a traveling exhibit, and a documentary—created by Asian/Americans about Asian/American women activists. My interdisciplinary research engages feminist memory studies, Asian/American studies, and cultural rhetorics to investigate how public memory activists leverage the affordances of different memorial genres to recover Asian/American women’s activism. I consider the ways Asian/American women’s memorials contest the past and navigate the politics of memorialization to influence the present. Each chapter considers how memorials not only remember past activism, but also work to reframe current conversations about Asian/American women in more just and equitable frameworks. I claim that my chosen memorials are created by memorial activists and each seek to expand U.S. memory beyond traditional gendered stereotypes that are pervasive in the United States.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/d6ln-izmf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29017
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRhetoricen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAsian American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledActivismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFeminismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGenreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMemoryen_US
dc.titleGENRES OF MEMORY AND ASIAN/AMERICAN WOMEN’S ACTIVISMen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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