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Mourning, melancholia and violence

Larry Ray

pp. 135-154

Abstract

Today the past has achieved a kind of iconic, even sacred status. Remembering the past is now widely understood as a valuable activity in and of itself; … We have become a society of ‘memory groups’ where one’s claim to group membership typically goes unchallenged because a common past … constitutes an area of discourse that cannot be contested.1

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Published in:

Bell Duncan (2006) Memory, trauma and world politics: reflections on the relationship between past and present. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 135-154

DOI: 10.1057/9780230627482_7

Full citation:

Ray Larry (2006) „Mourning, melancholia and violence“, In: D. Bell (ed.), Memory, trauma and world politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 135–154.