McNeill, Laurie. “Death and the Maidens: Vancouver’s Missing Women, the Montreal Massacre, and Commemoration’s Blind Spots.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 38, no. 3 (October, 2008): 375-398.
Study Questions
1. According to McNeill, how does the official Virginal Tech Web page show the complexities of memorial responses?
2. How do Canadians remember the murderer and the act?
3. Why does McNeill choose to compare the Montreal Massacre and Missing Women serial killings?
4. Why is it important to analyse the debate about labeling events such as the Montreal Massacre?
5. What are some of the similarities and differences in the women victims of the two cases?
6. Why do memorial practices need ongoing examination?
7. What is the role of memorializing discourse?
8. What are “guerrilla memorials” (p. 390)?
9. Why do structures and practices of traditional memorializing have to change?
