Abstract
The study of cultural memory, along with other memory research, has in the past tended to posit remembering and forgetting as oppositional forces in a mnemonic contestation over ‘truth’. Whilst neither can be eventuated without the other, such an observation of memory has led to some rather reductionist assumptions of the dialectical relationship between the two as ‘black and white’ processes in constant conflict with one another. This passage utilises the relevant literature to explore the paradoxical nature of remembering and forgetting, highlighting the far more complex reality of the two in the cultural memory practices of societies and everyday life.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7-11 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Intersections (Postgraduate Journal - Arts , Humanities , Social Sciences) |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 11 Apr 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 9 May 2019 |
Keywords
- Cultural Memory
- Remembering
- Forgetting
- mnemonic practices
- identity