Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930: Volume 14 - Rilegato

Gordon, Alan

 
9780773522541: Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930: Volume 14
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ISBN 10: 0773522549 ISBN 13: 9780773522541
Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 2001

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Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about structures of power. It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities. The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "others" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy. Rather than acknowledging a single past, Montreal's many publics made and celebrated many public memories.

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Book by Gordon Alan

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Editore
McGill Queens Univ
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0773522549
ISBN 13 
9780773522541
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
288
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