Gibsland, Louisiana’s memoryscape of Bonnie and Clyde

Putting the past in the present

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905166
AutoresWilliam N Holden (0000-0003-3929-3704, University of Calgary, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen17
Número6
Páginas1536-1553
Fecha de publicación2023-12-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980231219596
OpenAlexW4390405562
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas26

A memoryscape is a place where memories are anchored in space. One cannot travel back in time to when an event occurred, but one can travel in space to where an event occurred. On 23 May 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed near Gibsland, Louisiana, by a posse of law enforcement officers. There is a monument at the ambush’s location, and since 1993, there has been the Authentic Bonnie and Clyde Festival commemorating the ambush and culminating with its re-enactment. The re-enactment demonstrates putting the past into the present, and while watching it, one feels being taken back in time to when the ambush occurred and experiences living history. The ambush’s re-enactment commemorates not only the end of Bonnie and Clyde’s crime wave but also the beginning of the end of the Public Enemy Era

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