Recent traumas resist nation-building reframing until they grow mythic

Evidence

It is instructive that Renan does not say that each French citizen is obliged to ‘have already forgotten’ the Paris Commune. In 1882 its memory was still real rather than mythic, and sufficiently painful to make it difficult to read under the sign of ‘reassuring fratricide.’ — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 738

Categorization

• QUESTION: What determines the latency period before a civil trauma can be recast as reassuring fratricide? Anderson implies a generational threshold but never states it.
• XREF: connects to: A national historical trauma can shape a writer’s formal style unconsciously — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 505

Related

• Recent traumas resist national myth-making because their memory is still real, not mythic. (similarity 0.89)
• Nations compel citizens to forget slaughters they must first be taught to remember (similarity 0.80)