TY - JOUR
AU - Paquette, Robert L.
AB - Book Reviews 189 land: the eternal flame at the graves of Elvis tional response they do. No visitors in this fu­ and his parents and the upstairs bedroom in ture will/be readily able to connect the public which he died and that is locked to the public. narrative of the site to their own life stories. But Graceland, as she writes, also gives the In a sense this has happened with Civil War impression that anyone of us could live there. battlefields. But then again they can always read "How would you brush your teeth at Mount Marling's book and know how one person felt Vernon?" she asks; "Could you read in bed about Memphis and Minneapolis. there?" But in the Memphis mansion she does John Bodnar not have to imagine what it would be like to Indiana University live there. It is all so familiar to us with the Bloomington, Indiana comfortable sofas,televisionsets, cars,and pool. Elvis'shouse is somewhat like our own; it lacks the aspirations of older public memorials or Szlencing the Past: Power and the Production historic homes to arouse esteem for heroes or o/History. ByMichel-Rolph Trouillot. (Boston: paragons. As such it opens up public space for 
TI - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. By Michel-Rolph Trouillot. (Boston: Beacon, 1995. xxii, 191 pp. $22.00, ISBN 08070-4310-9.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2952745
DA - 1997-06-01
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SP - 189
EP - 190
VL - 84
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