Recent traumas resist national myth-making because their memory is still real, not mythic.
Evidence
It is instructive that Renan does not say that each French citizen is obliged to āhave already forgottenā 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 āreassuring fratricide.ā ā Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 737
Categorization
- XREF: Speaks to how Islamophobia treats living, present Muslim communities differently from safely distanced historical Others ā only sufficiently remote violence can be āforgottenā into family history. ā connects to: Historical truth stubbornly resists the storyteller s shaping instincts. ā Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life inā¦, 874; Pasts are contested by competing memory entrepreneurs, not settled in one canon ā Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwarā¦, 1302
Related
- Recent traumas resist nation-building reframing until they grow mythic (similarity 0.89)
Broader Connections
- Historical truth stubbornly resists the storyteller s shaping instincts.
#corroborates(0.72) ā Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life inā¦, 874