The Duty of Memory : Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 - 2010.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledoux, Sébastien.

Series:

Worlds of Memory Series

Worlds of Memory Series ; v.15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--France.

Collective memory.

Memorialization--France.

Memorialization.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Historiography.

Algeria.

France--Historiography.

France.

France--History--1958-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

"Within France, the expression "duty of memory" (le devoir de mémoire) speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s, highlighting France's entanglements with colonialism and the Holocaust. Drawing on a variety of interviews, archival sources, and data surveys, author Sébastien Ledoux spotlights how the trajectory of this term offers a lens for understanding contemporary societies' relationship with the past on a global scale"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Duty of Memory

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Emergence (Pre-1992)

Chapter 1. The Sign of a New Language of Memory

Chapter 2. The "Memory of Auschwitz," a New Reference in the Present

Chapter 3. The Invention of "Memory Policy" (1980s)

Part II. Proliferation (1992-1993)

Chapter 4. Publicization of "Duty of Memory" as Part of a Rhetoric of Denunciation (1992)

Chapter 5. "Duty of Memory" as an Official Expression (1993)

Chapter 6. A Sociohistorical Analysis of the Crystallization of "Duty of Memory"

Part III. Grammar (1995-2005)

Chapter 7. The Memory of the Holocaust as a Frame of Reference

Chapter 8. A Tool for Mobilizing Other Memories

Chapter 9. "Governance of the Past"

Part IV. Defiance (2000-2012)

Chapter 10. Criticism of Scientific Discourse

Chapter 11. Political Distancing

Chapter 12. "Duty of Memory"

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-043-8

1-83695-042-X

OCLC:

1521499092