Teaching the Repulsive Memorial

Creator

Barry J. Mauer, University of Central FloridaFollow
John Venecek, University of Central Florida
Valerie Kasper, UCFFollow
Patricia Carlton, University of Central FloridaFollow
Amy Larner Giroux, University of Central Florida
Marcy Galbreath, University of Central Florida

Keywords

Cultural Studies, Abjection, Pedagogy, Cultural Memory, Georges Bataille, and Gregory Ulmer

Abstract

This chapter presents a method for teaching students in writing classes to make repulsive memorials, which reveal to us the repulsive origins and abject byproducts of national identity formation.

Publication Date

2015

Original Citation

Mauer, Barry. John Venecek, Patricia Carlton, Marcy Galbreath, Amy Larner Giroux, and Valerie Kasper. “Teaching the Repulsive Memorial.” Pedagogies of Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching “Writing.” Eds. Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman. New York: Routledge. 2015

Document Type

Book Chapter

Copyright Status

Publisher retained

Publication Version

Pre-print

College

College of Arts and Humanities

Location

Orlando (Main) Campus

Department

English

STARS Citation

Mauer, Barry J.; Venecek, John; Kasper, Valerie; Carlton, Patricia; Giroux, Amy Larner; and Galbreath, Marcy, "Teaching the Repulsive Memorial" (2015). Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 615.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/615