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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• LeBaron, Michelle
• Regan, Paulette
• MARGOT YOUNG
• PHILIPPE TORTELL
• MARK TURIN
• Turin, Mark
• Tortell, Philippe
• Young, Margot

Titel

REWEAVING THE PAST

Ist Teil von

• Memory, 2018, p.217-224

Ort / Verlag

Canada: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The writer and cultural commentator Maria Popova writes that “memory … is not the pencil with which the outline of a life is drawn but the eraser.”¹ This is true, she says, of both our personal memories and those recollections shared in community. But if memory is an eraser, what and who are erased? What and who stay visible? Memory, after all, does not erase evenly – it is unavoidably elective. In the ongoing dance between past and present, what is amplified, what is muted? Although memory allows us to put ourselves back into the past, we never really travel there;