Memory Subjectivities and Representation

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Memory Subjectivities and Representation

Author	: Rina Benmayor
File Size	: 49,6 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 29 April 2016
ISBN	: 9781137438713
Pages	: 253 pages

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Memory Subjectivities and Representation by Rina Benmayor Book PDF Summary

This collection presents diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Eleven essays, originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, coalesce around major themes that have long concerned oral historians and social scientists: collective memories of conflictive national pasts, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of identity and public memory.

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