Chapter 6
Rhetoric, materiality, and US Western Front commemoration
The memorialization of the Western Front was one of the most extraordinary periods of landscape creation in modern memory.
(Heffernan, 1995: 311)
Heffernan’s observation serves as our point of departure in accessing the modes by which interwar US memorialization on the Western Front was produced and how it has been continually reproduced. The invented landscape Heffernan marks is not just a periodized memorial production; it is an assemblage of commemorative places always being produced. Thus, we take particular US locations on the Western Front as exemplars of practiced, rhetorical memory places (Blair et al., 2010: 22–32). ...
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