Nadia Butt. Transcultural memory and globalised modernity in contemporary indo‑english novels
The act of remembering – voluntary or involuntary, within the private or political realm – makes not only the past effective in the present, it concurrently opens up possibilities to negotiate between multiple temporalities that otherwise seem too far apart or unbridgeable. Despite being an intrins...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
2021
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | The act of remembering – voluntary or involuntary, within the private or political realm – makes not only the past effective in the present, it concurrently opens up possibilities to negotiate between multiple temporalities that otherwise seem too far apart or unbridgeable. Despite being an intrinsic human practice and a universal phenomenon, the entrance of memory into mainstream political, public and academic discourse remains indebted to the Holocaust and its aftermath. Mnemonic practices... |
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