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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"lieux de mémoire"”.
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Transnational Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Today: Modes of Remembering in Three Lusophone Nations
… have persisted in these societies and remain evident today. This paper examines the transnational Memory of the Atlantic slave trade today and its modes of remembering through palimpsests of Memory in three Lusophone nations: Angola, Brazil, and Portugal. Using Astrid Erll’s outline (2010) on …
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Under the hanging tree: everyday life and historical memory in Central Namibia
… the battle landscape of Okandjira, function as lieux de mémoire, shaping collective memory, identity, and claims to justice in the present. Building on Pierre Nora’s theorization of memory-sites and Martha & Bruce Lincoln’s work on cultural transmission (with Fanon and Mbembe as additional …
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Transforming space and significance - a study of the constitutional court of South Africa
… Court as the first intervention in the development of the Constitutional Hill precinct and as part of an endeavour aimed at creating a new national identity. The argument is reliant on the premise that an agency, in this case the judges of the constitutional court, actively seeking out …
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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne
… fled from the plantation, against the colonial order, that is, the fugitive slave. Specific, in the Haitian lexicography, it stands for a shifty and cunning individual, particularily a " <em>Woule m debò</em> "1. One has to recognize that there is a double meaning associated with the word, and at …
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Commemorating Controversy: Place-making at the Birthplace of the Bomb
… New Mexico, for a single military purpose—to develop the world's first atomic weapons. Today, the remaining places and spaces of the bomb at Los Alamos are being preserved for future generations through their inclusion in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, a unique partnership …
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
… its case study the Greek Anthology. My analysis demonstrates that ancient Greek anthologies’ negotiation of the diverse temporal perspectives of their constituent epigrams offers a complex source for literary-historical thinking in antiquity. This project examines the temporality of Greek epigram …
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Cinema Komunisto: cinema as a memory site
… actors and studio bosses, as well as President Tito’s personal projectionist. In the introduction, a brief historical overview establishes the central position of cinema in socialist Yugoslavia, its contribution to the ‘imagined community’ in it’s articulation of political myths and the …
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Jak se dělá paměť ve veřejnoprávním rozhlase
V diplomové práci popisuji proces, ve kterém vznikají jednotlivé díly rozhlasového pořadu Příběhy 20. století, vysvětluji na něm, jaké faktory ovlivňují vzpomínání ve veřejnoprávním médiu a jak vznikají místa paměti v jeho vysílání. Zkoumám, jak jsou natáčena vyprávění lidí, jejichž příběh pak může …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow and develop in a context where they need to build bridges between their European and Amerindian roots in …