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Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol (History, Culture, and Society Series)

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 | #975303 in Books |  2002-06-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x6.00l,.77 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Helps balance the Texas rah-rah|By Ronald T. McCoy|Richard Flores has produced a book that should give interested readers cause to pause and engage in some reflection. The syntax is a bit dense, as seems the case with postmodernist writing in general. But once you get past the jargon, he's put together a strong case for how the "sacred space" of the Alamo has been both crea| |"Drawing on a broad range of theorists in various fields (geography, social history, semiotics, cultural studies, and anthropology), Flores provides a compelling and quite forceful analysis of various historically produced forms of documenting, recalling, and

"Remember the Alamo!" reverberates through Texas history and culture, but what exactly are we remembering? Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Why did the historical battle of 1836 undergo this metamorphosis in memory and mythology to become such a potent master symbol in Texan and American culture?

In this probing book, Richard Flores se...

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