The objectives outlined in the volume's introduction resonate in the concluding chapter on Afro-Ecuadoran writing and
collective memory. The compelling questions planted by the chapter's authors are relevant in each of the preceding chapters; specifically, "What is the interplay of State with these issues of memory, ancestral tradition, and writing?" (259).
About the history of the
collective memory concept, Farhat shahzad writes : "My first introduction to the concept of
collective memory came from Emile Durkheim who discusses briefly the social structure of
collective memory without using the term itself.
Noviembre is an important novel that, like the recent memory turn in Latin American literature, revives
collective memory and offers the possibility of coming to terms with the traumatic events of El Salvador's relatively recent past.
Collective memory continues the sense of sameness of social groups over long periods of time.
These monuments' condition attests not to their neglect, nor to a wasting-away into obsolescence but to an active process of reshaping
collective memory.
To use Macdonald's terms, places of heritage become 'the products of
collective memory work' (2013: 1).
The ongoing (re)interpretation of communist regime practices and their legacy, political change, institutional discontinuation, latent ideological effects,
collective memory and identity in restored societal order, coterminous institutionalisation of memory and intentional forgetting are as much part of the answer as they are of the question.
Combining the structure of a detective novel with a vibrant, sophisticated prose style, Oblivion is one man's journey to confront the chilling truth buried deep in Russia's
collective memory.
The sacrifice of your sons, daughters and wards is etched in the
collective memory of nations consciousness, never to be erased.