An emerging Lakota scholar's critical interrogation of settler-colonial nations that re-centers Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) women as the tribe's traditional culture keepers and bearers. We Are the Stars is a literary recovery project that...
Collective memory
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Author:Hernandez, Sarah (Sarah Raquel), Hernandez, SarahSummary: - Author:Vosters, HeleneSummary:
Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of...
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Author:McKay, Ian, Swift, JamieSummary:The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this...
- Author:Trump, Mary L.Summary:
This program is read by the author. The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough : A diagnosis of America's national trauma, and a way to heal. The Reckoning will...
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Author:Olick, Jeffery K.Summary:Olick looks at how catastrophic, terrible pasts, Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa, are remembered, but he is particularly concerned with the role that memory plays in social structures. Memory can foster any number of things, social...
- Author:Cook, Tim.Summary:
A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world...
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On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in Canada’s history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have shaped how the tragedy is woven into public...
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Author:Haskins, Ekaterina V.Summary:In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices,...
- Author:Mitchell, Claudia, Mandrona, AprilSummary:
Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, Our Rural Selves interrogates and represents individual and...
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Author:Gosselin, Viviane, Livingstone, PhaedraSummary:Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. Using case studies from a Canadian context, the contributors to this collection reflect on the challenges in maintaining and developing museums as...
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Author:University of Calgary PressSummary:For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonialism, introducing new, and often disruptive, settlement patterns and economic arrangements. Although indigenous communities may benefit...
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Author:Hébert, Karine, Goyette, JulienSummary:Cet ouvrage montre que le patrimoine est un processus de part en part, mais un processus qui n’a rien d’abstrait. Le patrimoine, en effet, n’existe pas en dehors d’objets, d’institutions et d’acteurs ; il est également toujours situé –...
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Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television,...
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Author:Barlow, MatthewSummary:This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. As Irish immigration dwindled by the late nineteenth century, Irish culture in the city...
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Author:Webster, DavidSummary:Truth and reconciliation is complex, complicated, and ongoing. Although the operational phases of truth commissions have been well examined, the efforts to establish these commissions and the struggle to put their recommendations into...
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In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers-and confronts-the past. In 2020, history came tumbling down. From...
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Author:Gilbert, Anne, Bock, Michel, Thériault, Joseph-YvonSummary:Dans Les lieux de mémoire, Pierre Nora affirme que "la mémoire s'enracine dans le concret, l'espace, le geste, l'image et l'objet" (1984, xix). Entre lieux et mémoire adopte une perspective semblable et...
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Author:Summary:Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally...
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Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other's integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German...
- Author:Coutts, RobertSummary:
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional...
