The Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social Memories by Elizabeth Jelin

The Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social Memories

Worlds of Memory #6

Elizabeth Jelin

270 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced
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 In all societies--but especially those that have endured political violence--the past is shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around Argentine "memory ...

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