The Duty of Memory: Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 – 2010 (Worlds of Memory)
History, Politics and government
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Within France, the expression “duty of memory” (le devoir de mémoire)speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s, highlighting France’s entanglements… with colonialism and the Holocaust. Drawing on a variety of interviews, archival sources, and data surveys, author Sébastien Ledoux spotlights how the trajectory of this term offers a lens for understanding contemporary societies’ relationship with the past on a global scale.
Title Details
ISBN
9781836950424
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Copyright Date
2025
Book number
6637992