Forgetfulness: making the modern culture of amnesia 9781501324697, 1501324691

Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent h

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English Pages 185 pages ; 23 cm Year 2017

Table of contents :
Cultures of memory --
The making of modern forgetting --
Contemporary cultures of amnesia --
Forgetfulness in contemporary cultural narrative --
Learning pasts --
The problems of forgetting national and local histories.

Forgetfulness: making the modern culture of amnesia
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Francis

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