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Making Public Pasts
Alan Gordon
其他書名
The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2001
主題History / GeneralHistory / Canada / GeneralHistory / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Quebec (QC)SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / CulturalSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN07735225499780773522541
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0xxUArWbqOcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.