Enacting Remembrance Day in the Public Sphere
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https://doi.org/10.29173/cons9578Abstract
The form of commemoration offered by Remembrance Day ceremonies works to produce a sense of nationalist patriotism. The ‘public history’ of the nation, as a mode of self-representation, presents a particular narrative of limited scope, occluding all elements that do not fit its ideological framework. Remembrance Day simultaneously invokes and educates Canadian collective memory and public history, mediated through the contemporary power/knowledge discourse on war.
The values, structure, and 'tendencies of a society' become evident in collective memory and this cultural heritage of society becomes a site at which it is 'visible to itself'.
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2010-12-16
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Iqbal, N. (2010). Enacting Remembrance Day in the Public Sphere. Constellations, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.29173/cons9578
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