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Occupying Memory

Rhetoric, Trauma, Mourning

Trevor Hoag

Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. Rather than viewing memory as granting direct access to the past and being readily accessible or pliant to human will, Trevor Hoag exposes how the past is a rhetorical production and that trauma and mourning shatter delusions of sovereignty. By granting memory the posthuman power to persuade without an accompanying rhetorician, and contending the past cannot become a reality without being written, this book highlights rhetoric’s indispensability while transforming its relationship to memorialization, trauma, narrative, death, mourning, haunting, and survival.



Analyzing and deploying the rhetorical trope of occupatio, Occupying Memory inhabits the conceptual place of memory by reinscribing it in ways that challenge hegemonic power while holding open that same space to keep memory “in question” and receptive to alternative futures to come. Hoag likewise demonstrates how one might occupy memory through insights gleaned from analyzing artifacts, media, events, and tropes from the Occupy Movement, a contemporary national and international movement for socioeconomic justice.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 232 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-5656-9 • Hardback • November 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-5658-3 • Paperback • June 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-5657-6 • eBook • November 2018 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
Subjects: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Psychology / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
Trevor Hoag is assistant professor of English and codirector of digital humanities at Christopher Newport University.
Introduction: Seize the Fire

1. Memorials: The Living and the Dead

2. Trauma: Starless Night, Blinding Sun

3. Writing: Inscribing the Impossible

4. Death: Rioting Finitude

5. Mourning: The Maelstrom of Sorrow

6. Haunting: Ghosts of Memory

Afterword: Into Darkness

Appendix: Declaration of the Occupation of Memory

Bibliography

About the Author
This book is a valuable contribution to an under-studied aspect of the rhetorical canon: 'memory.' The theorization and case studies are very useful, and scholars of rhetoric and composition, as well as those interested in trauma theory, memory, and mourning, will find this book useful to their own thinking.
— Matthew B. Morris, Texas State University


Occupying Memory

Rhetoric, Trauma, Mourning

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Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. Rather than viewing memory as granting direct access to the past and being readily accessible or pliant to human will, Trevor Hoag exposes how the past is a rhetorical production and that trauma and mourning shatter delusions of sovereignty. By granting memory the posthuman power to persuade without an accompanying rhetorician, and contending the past cannot become a reality without being written, this book highlights rhetoric’s indispensability while transforming its relationship to memorialization, trauma, narrative, death, mourning, haunting, and survival.



    Analyzing and deploying the rhetorical trope of occupatio, Occupying Memory inhabits the conceptual place of memory by reinscribing it in ways that challenge hegemonic power while holding open that same space to keep memory “in question” and receptive to alternative futures to come. Hoag likewise demonstrates how one might occupy memory through insights gleaned from analyzing artifacts, media, events, and tropes from the Occupy Movement, a contemporary national and international movement for socioeconomic justice.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 232 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-4985-5656-9 • Hardback • November 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
    978-1-4985-5658-3 • Paperback • June 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
    978-1-4985-5657-6 • eBook • November 2018 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
    Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Psychology / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Literary Criticism / Modern / General, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
Author
Author
  • Trevor Hoag is assistant professor of English and codirector of digital humanities at Christopher Newport University.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Seize the Fire

    1. Memorials: The Living and the Dead

    2. Trauma: Starless Night, Blinding Sun

    3. Writing: Inscribing the Impossible

    4. Death: Rioting Finitude

    5. Mourning: The Maelstrom of Sorrow

    6. Haunting: Ghosts of Memory

    Afterword: Into Darkness

    Appendix: Declaration of the Occupation of Memory

    Bibliography

    About the Author
Reviews
Reviews
  • This book is a valuable contribution to an under-studied aspect of the rhetorical canon: 'memory.' The theorization and case studies are very useful, and scholars of rhetoric and composition, as well as those interested in trauma theory, memory, and mourning, will find this book useful to their own thinking.
    — Matthew B. Morris, Texas State University


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