Public memory, tourism, and Galveston’s selective heritage : a rhetorical analysis of the Elissa.

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dc.contributor.advisorVarda, Scott Joseph.
dc.contributor.authorBissell, Jaclyn L.
dc.contributor.departmentCommunication.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsBaylor University. Dept. of Communication.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-16T12:52:05Z
dc.date.available2013-09-16T12:52:05Z
dc.date.copyright2013-05
dc.date.issued2013-09-16
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the rhetorical construction of 1877 iron barque Elissa as a tourist attraction on the island of Galveston, Texas. Focusing on a localized construction of public memory, this study asks questions centered on the presentation and privileging of narratives purposefully aimed at creating a consumable attraction. Since her rescue and decade-long restoration in the late 1970s, the Elissa has been rhetorically constructed as a tourist attraction, redirecting attention from Galveston’s realities of poverty in favor of a memory capable of being sold. Privileging a specific interpretation of race, class, and selecting an era as representative of Galveston as a whole, the Elissa enacts culture via consumable memory. In other words, instead of teaching patriotism or engaging in memorialization, the Elissa enacts a memory to be visited, experienced, and consumed.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/8724
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide access.en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsAccess changed 7/11/18.
dc.subjectElissa (Ship)en_US
dc.subjectGalveston, Texas.en_US
dc.subjectPublic memory.en_US
dc.titlePublic memory, tourism, and Galveston’s selective heritage : a rhetorical analysis of the Elissa.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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