It is well known that the need to simplify a story, to preserve its consistency and to avoid discontinuity gaps, leads to memory distortions (Schacter, 2001). These biases allow one to preclude possible dissonances between the accurate recollection of past events and one’s own current knowledge or present situations upon which one should act. While most memories are specific to individuals, the...

Recorded music is vital to the construction of personal and collective cultural memory. My examination of the interrelation between personal and collective memories of popular music assumes both that human memory is simultaneously embodied, enabled, and embedded, and that (re)collective experiences are constructed through narratives. Analysis of an online set of narrative responses to a nationa...

The construction of the diasporic identity is inextricably linked to collective memory home culture: its geography, history, traumatic experiences, and achievements. This paper tackles effect trans-generational trauma, diaspora, memories on second generation individuals as represented in selected poems by Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan. It traces development her exilic through analysis he...

One city, three eras: Touring the monuments of Montgomery reveals ongoing struggles over collective memories past and visions future.