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Mar. 31st, 2006 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizzybennetI still haven't turned in my paper that was due yesterday. Haven't even started it, to be completely honest. I had such a busy day yesterday. Chris is finally home from work now, and I have locked myself away to force this paper out of me. And, here I am, wasting time on my blog. for shame.
The paper's topic is how did the Cold War shape how Americans remember Pearl Harbor and what does this tell us about the nature of cultural memory?
Cultural memory: "What matters ... is not that [a particular account of the past] be correct by our standards or anyone else's, but that it be convincing to the particular group of individuals ... for whom it serves as an explanation of the world they inhabit. ... [W]hat matters about any particular version of history is that it be meaningful to the collective subjectivities and self-identities of the specific group which it addresses. In other words, we are not concerned with 'real facts' or even a coherent methodology, but rather with the consensus of assumptions and prejudices shared by the historian ... and his audience". https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/2.0.html
The paper's topic is how did the Cold War shape how Americans remember Pearl Harbor and what does this tell us about the nature of cultural memory?
Cultural memory: "What matters ... is not that [a particular account of the past] be correct by our standards or anyone else's, but that it be convincing to the particular group of individuals ... for whom it serves as an explanation of the world they inhabit. ... [W]hat matters about any particular version of history is that it be meaningful to the collective subjectivities and self-identities of the specific group which it addresses. In other words, we are not concerned with 'real facts' or even a coherent methodology, but rather with the consensus of assumptions and prejudices shared by the historian ... and his audience". https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/2.0.html