HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Fictive Kinship, Jay Winter, Catherine Merridale
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Course director: prof. d. neill: collective remembrance as a concept, collective remembrance in the ussr/russia, collective remembrance in the spanish civil war, individual memory as testament: world war one memoirs as historical sources, collective remembrance. What we choose, as a society, to remember about past events in order to find meaning in the present: how do we remember, written word, art. In stone: media, our narratives, we tell stories about the past. We emphasize things we want to remember, and try to forget other things: over time, these stories can change. Each generation re-interprets the past in light of the present. Silences are not just a matter of who you highlight but also what you highlight and what you obscure or sanitize. In civil wars, you have to come to terms with citizens killing citizens that is honoured: valley of the fallen . Samuel hynes: for further reading, samuel hynes, personal narratives and commemoration, in jay winter and emmanuel.
