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Journal articles on the topic "Cultural Amnesia"

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Lampropoulos, Apostolos, and Vassiliki Markidou. "Introduction: Configuring Cultural Amnesia." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 2 (May 1, 2010): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.16485.

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Saporito, Paolo. "Cultural memory against institutionalised amnesia: the Togliatti amnesty and Antonioni’s I vinti." Modern Italy 23, no. 3 (June 11, 2018): 299–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2018.18.

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This article studies post-war Italy’s forgetful attitude towards its Fascist past by interpreting a political measure, the Togliatti amnesty (1946), and 1950s film censorship as ‘institutionalised forms of (…) amnesia’ (Ricoeur 2004, 452). The amnesty, which erased the Fascists’ legal responsibility for war and political crimes, represented the first act of oblivion of the Republican political establishment, embodying a forgetful mindset that influenced Italian culture through institutional instruments like film censorship. In 1950s Italy, censorship acted as a further form of institutionalised amnesia aimed at erasing from films the traces of the compromising continuity between the Fascist past and the democratic present. The story of the making and unmaking of the Italian episode of I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni is a meaningful example of this dynamic. Producers and government commissioners censored the plot and changed it from a story about a neo-fascist militant to one about a young bourgeois who smuggles cigarettes. However, Antonioni resisted the institutional imposition to forget by choosing locations where the material dimension of the landscape still embodied the Fascist legacy of the country.
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Haaken, Janice. "Cultural Amnesia: Memory, Trauma, and War." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 1 (September 2002): 455–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/340870.

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Bao, Ying. "Cinematic Amnesia as Remembering: Coming Home (2014) and Red Amnesia (2014)." Arts 7, no. 4 (November 21, 2018): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts7040083.

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This article examines the trope of amnesia—the crisis of memory—in two recent Chinese-language films dealing with traumatic memories of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath: Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home (Guilai, 2014) and Wang Xiaoshuai’s Red Amnesia (Chuangru zhe, 2014). Cinematic representation of real and symbolic amnesia, I argue, can be an affective way to overcome historical amnesia, both institutionalized by the Party-state and privatized by individuals. By exploring the dynamics between forgetting and remembering at both collective and individual levels, we can reach a deeper understanding of the profound impact of the Cultural Revolution and its present-day repercussions.
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Mazrui, Ali A. "Cultural Amnesia, Cultural Nostalgia and False Memory: Africa’s Identity Crisis Revisited." African and Asian Studies 12, no. 1-2 (2013): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341249.

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Abstract The point of departure of this article is Ernest Renan’s observation that the secret of nation-building is to get one’s history wrong. We critically analyze – in the broader and historical context of the encounters between Africans and Europeans – the role of collective memory in its four functions of preservation, selection, elimination and invention. We focus on the first function to examine in depth how positive preservation of memory can become a form of nostalgia and how negative selection by memory can lead to elimination and amnesia. We argue that both nostalgia and amnesia can be forms of “getting one’s history wrong” in order to get one’s national identity right. We also attempt to show how historical invention can be consolidated into a false memory – placing something in the past which was never there before.
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Stormer, Nathan. "In living memory: Abortion as cultural amnesia." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88, no. 3 (August 2002): 265–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335630209384377.

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Wang, Qi. "Infantile amnesia reconsidered: A cross-cultural analysis." Memory 11, no. 1 (January 2003): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/741938173.

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Luhar, Sahdev, and Dushyant Nimavat. "Cultural Memory and Gādaliyā Luhār Identity in Gujarat." South Asia Research 40, no. 2 (April 29, 2020): 199–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0262728020915565.

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Focused on the cultural memory of the Gādaliya Luhār community in Gujarat, this article discusses ways in which oral traditions and cultural memory among nomadic groups in India shape the identity of a community under the challenge of cultural amnesia. The Gādaliyā Luhārs claim Rājpūt status and close association with the kings of the Mewar region of Rajasthan, but experienced double cultural amnesia, first under the Mughals and later in the British Empire, which affected their identity. The article seeks to assess the authenticity of the community’s assertions of cultural memory in the light of some historical documents and asks to what extent cultural memory through oral narratives can be taken as valid evidence for understanding the cultural identity of a specific community.
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Holt, Robert D. "Ijee Soapbox: Cultural Amnesia in the Ecological Sciences." Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 53, no. 2 (January 2007): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1560/ijee.53.2.121.

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MacDonald, Shelley, Kimberly Uesiliana, and Harlene Hayne. "Cross-cultural and gender differences in childhood amnesia." Memory 8, no. 6 (November 2000): 365–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658210050156822.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Cultural Amnesia"

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Bramall, Rebecca. "On cultural amnesia critical theory and contemporary discourses of forgetting." Thesis, University of East London, 2007. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1286/.

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This thesis examines contemporary discourses of forgetting, and in particular the notion of `cultural amnesia'. I take as the object of my research the mobilization of amnesia in the humanities and social sciences during the last two decades, arguing that this concept does not have a consistent relation to cultural phenomena but rather names a perceived loss, absence or deficiency, and sometimes excess or surfeit, in knowledge and the articulation of knowledge. I explore what is at stake in these rulings of cultural and social deficiency, the values and frameworks that are invoked to authorize them, and the specific fact of their being set out in terms of memory. My method of historicizing the emergence of the concept of amnesia as a preferred means of figuring cultural deficiency is to trace in contemporary discourses of forgetting certain legacies of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. I submit that Theodor W. Adorno's thought is construed by theorists working on the subject of memory as a significant antecedent for contemporary debates; specifically, he is regarded as having anticipated late twentieth-century anxieties about amnesia. I attend to such characterizations both by offering a fresh consideration of the function of memory-related concepts in Critical Theory and by questioning what is at stake in contemporary claims of a relationship to - as well as in frequent disavowals of - aspects of this current of thought. The chapters that follow examine: the discursive functions of the concept of amnesia in cultural and social theory; the relationship between the concepts of reification and forgetting; the processes through which the postwar period became recognized as a period of amnesia for the Holocaust; the place of the concept of amnesia in Fredric Jameson's thesis on postmodernism and in today's recollection of his contribution; and the return of the notion of `the forgotten' in the turn to ethics in poststructuralist literary theory.
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Jerlei, Epp. "Cultural Amnesia: Imagining Alternatives to the Dystopian Future of Norrland." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108596.

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By the term “Cultural Amnesia” I refer to a diagnosis of a condition that has been caused by external damage or trauma. This may result in a society forced to forget about their roots, culture and connection to the landscape, once been embraced by a community as a whole but now been forgotten and replaced by different ideals that are displaced from context.  It is an assumption that something is missing or is about to be forgotten, that would have disastrous consequences. The causes of the amnesia need to be diagnosed and identified and their possible effects imagined. The term “Culture” here can refers simply to the way how have been done and developed in a specific context from the beginning of times. Cultural amnesia, then, would be the widespread ignorance of and indifference to what used to be important but has now fallen into forced displacement, resulting in a possible “dystopian future”.  The aim of the research is to analyse the recent developments in Norrland and the Sápmi areas that are largely affected by capitalist space production. It highlights also the story of displacement and injustice the Sámi have suffered. There has been an exploitation of the Sámi rights by the government and evidence of the Swedish state land theft from the Sámi. The real repression began with the modernization of society, where the causes lay in factors like the need for forest, agricultural efficiency and new definitions of land ownership. Today the indigenous people find themselves fighting a battle against the state and multinational mining companies, while their land, cultural heritage and their way of life is at stake.  Can we imagine a cure, a plan of care or an antidote to Cultural Amnesia?
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Dewald, Margaret M. "Slavery and the unknown world America's cultural amnesia and the literary response /." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1433459.

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Gonzalez, Sanchez Ricardo. "Dangerous Memories in Time of Cultural Amnesia: Challenges for the Church in Mexico." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1399.

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Thesis advisor: Roberto Goizueta
In the context of a globalized and postmodern world, there is a vector of thought in Mexican culture that remains fixated on the present, invested in the urgency of the moment, and content with hurried decisions in political and economic matters. Such a mindset makes little room for memories and, in fact, promotes rapid forgetfulness, especially of uncomfortable memories. Nevertheless, another vector of thought simultaneously persists, one that prizes memories, emphasizes traditions and ancestral anamnetic forms, and is quite richly expressed in small `campesinos' and indigenous communities, where men and particularly women - though otherwise lacking political influence - are actively engaged in preserving their memories. Not surprisingly, these two vectors of thought share an uneasy co-existence. In these pages I will argue that these memories are actually considered dangerous on two fronts: first, because they interrupt our productive present and the system we live in; and, second because they challenge us to imagine, and even to work toward, a more just future, one not characterized by easy amnesties or corporate forgetfulness. I will support the view that memories enable us to conduct an honest reconstruction and analysis of the past, in all of its complexity, and then oblige us to integrate lessons learned truthfully in the present. In Mexico, such memories need to be listened to and integrated as part of our identity as a society and a Church for, if we do not, we will always remain a broken society and an incomplete Church. This position, along with the questions that it raises, will be confronted and illuminated herein by a theological perspective on memory. After all, it was Israel's belief in being in the memory of God that gave that people their solid communitarian consistency. Later on, the Christian community inherited this anamnetic culture as the core of its liturgical life and Christian praxis: "Do this in memory of me". Johann Baptist Metz reflects theologically on the "cultural amnesia" that drags us towards a dehumanizing progress, emphasizing merely technological advancement. Societal adoption of such an attitude inevitably leaves victims in its wake, namely, those who do not - or cannot - achieve the standards of success established by the technocrats. Metz identifies the destruction of memory as a typical tool of totalitarian domination. The slavery of human beings begins when their memories are taken away; this is the principle and foundation of all colonization. Metz explains that we must remember the memories of these victims in order to interrupt our present situation and activate creative resistance. He suggests a mysticism characterized by suffering unto God while, at the same time, keeping our eyes open to reality. Consequently a praxis is realized wherein we act as subjects in freedom participating actively in the construction of history. It is important for the Mexican Church to recover these memories at both the social and ecclesial levels and to allow them to interrupt us, because they constitute a new way for us to look back at what we have been, and to construct what we want to be. In doing so, we can be a community of memory and hope
Thesis (STD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Theology
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Мозговий, Іван Павлович, Иван Павлович Мозговый, and Ivan Pavlovych Mozghovyi. "Культурная амнезия как идеологический акт." Thesis, Центр культуры и культурологических исследований, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/60827.

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Описується фактор цільової впливу на культурну пам'ять з боку державної ідеологічної системи, що прагне змінити картину культурної пам'яті в інтересах такого подальшого розвитку,
The factor of the target influence on cultural memory by the state ideological system, which seeks to change the picture of cultural memory in the interests of such further development, is described.
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Kazi-Nance, Ambata K. "Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1450.

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A comparative analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels invoke progressive and redemptive models of remembering, as well as foreground the role of spiritual guides in the transformative process from trauma towards healing.
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Lester, W. Carter. "Sharing our stories, remembering our journey, congregational history in a culture of amnesia." Chicago, Ill : McCormick Theological Seminary, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Juvonen, Annimari Elisa. "The Visual Culture of Human Rights. Observations on Amnesty International." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9447.

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Trabalho de project de Mestrado em Antropologia de Direitos Humanos e Movimentos Sociais
The focus of this project is the visual dimension of transformative powers within society, which is approached by inspecting the visual communication of a human rights organization, Amnesty International. My interest towards this type of thematic arose from my previous concentration on human rights discourse and the rhetorics related to it, and now I wanted to prolong my scope on visual rhetorics. My intention was to find out what kind of registers and narratives are used by a human rights organization when human rights are communicated through visuality. I came up with an idea to work with two organizations for gaining a comparative perspective, and these fields turned out to be two local sections of Amnesty International, those of Portugal and Finland. The intention was to follow the paths that these sections have taken in terms of the use of photograph during the transformation related to organizational change and the need to be globalized and unified at once. Visual culture is treated within this project in its strong sense, by emphasizing its cultural dimension, the values and identities that are constructed and communicated using visuality as a medium (Barnard 2001:1-2). The organization, Amnesty International, and its two national sections, the Finnish and the Portuguese one, are all seen as cultural groups that reproduce their particular character and identity with the use of visuality.
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Tobor, John Oghenero. "Urhobo Culture and the Amnesty Program in Niger Delta, Nigeria: An Ethnographic Case Study." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/128.

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Despite abundant oil resources, the residents of the Niger Delta endure extreme poverty, polluted environments, poor infrastructure, and high unemployment. In the early 1990s, these problems led to a violent uprising against oil exploration. In 2009 the government of Nigeria attempted to end the uprising by implementing an amnesty program for the militants that was designed to address the region's problems. The amnesty program resulted in suspending the violence but so far has not resolved the region's problems. If these problems are not addressed, the uprising may resume. Although the Urhobo people comprised the largest number of militants from the Western Niger Delta, there has been no research on whether there are aspects of the Urhobo culture that may be helpful for strengthening the amnesty program and preventing a return to violence by Urhobo ex-militants. Benet's polarities of democracy model served as the theoretical framework for this ethnographic study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observations of 20 Urhobo ex-militants to learn what might prevent their return to violence. Content analysis was used to identify significant themes. Findings indicated that aspects of the Urhobo culture, such as communal obligations, respect for elders, and commitment to social justice and equality, may contribute to strengthening the amnesty program and preventing a return to violence. Recommendations include incorporating meaningful participation of Urhobo elders in the further development and implementation of the amnesty program. Implications for social change include informing policy makers of the importance the Urhobo culture may play in strengthening the amnesty program.
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Lynch, Lorraine Anne. "Amnesia y Nostalgia, Una Odisea Africana y Española: La Inmigración Africana En La Espana Contemporanea Como Vista En Tres Representaciones Fílmicas Españolas." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/mcl_theses/10.

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Este trabajo explora los temas de la nostalgia y la amnesia, de los africanos inmigrantes así como de los españoles, representados en tres películas contemporáneas españolas que se tratan de la inmigración de los africanos a España. Va a explorar estos temas de la amnesia y la nostalgia a través de los pasos de un inmigrante africano – 1ª paso) el viaje difícil de África a España, 2ª paso) la vida del inmigrante dentro de España, y 3ª paso) el regreso a África - como representados, respectivamente, en las siguientes películas: 14 kilómetros (2008), Said (1998), y Pobladores (2006).
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Books on the topic "Cultural Amnesia"

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James, Clive. Cultural amnesia: Notes in the margin of my time. London: Picador, 2007.

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Dubin, Steven C. Displays of power: Memory and amnesia in the American museum. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

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The fortunes of permanence: Culture and anarchy in an age of amnesia. South Bend, Ind: St. Augustine's Press, 2012.

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The cultures of memory: Memory culture, memory crisis and the age of amnesia. Bethesda: Academica Press, 2011.

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1952-, Engler Wolfgang, Schweeger Elisabeth, and Schauspiel Frankfurt, eds. Philosophische Salons: Geistige Armut-kulturelle Amnesie. München: Belleville, 2008.

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A forgetful nation: On immigration and cultural identity in the United States. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2005.

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Fugue: On the amnesia of antinomies. Lanham: University Press of America, 1986.

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Zanesville: A novel. New York: Villard Books, 2005.

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Temperance. Seattle, Wash: Fantagraphics Books, 2010.

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Jessica, Gruner, and Parker Buzz ill, eds. The Lost Days (Emily the Strange #1): Lost days. New York: The Bowen Press, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Cultural Amnesia"

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Lemche, Niels Peter. "Cultural Amnesia." In Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis, edited by Pernille Carstens, Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch, Niels Peter Lemche, Izaak Hulster, Dolores Kamrada, Rüdiger Schmitt, Terje Stordalen, et al., 159–72. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463234690-011.

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Agnese, Roberta. "Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction." In Cultural Inquiry, 91–98. Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_10.

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The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up of produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don’t collect historical documents; they actually contain visual artefacts created by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad. These digital mixed-media archives — partly accessible on the web but also physically exhibited and performed — are not intended to preserve the memory of the past, but they become indeed useful to actualize history by giving it back in the form of a historical fiction. What if archives should not deal with memory, but with amnesia? And what kind of historical temporality do they re-activate?
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Clark, Jawanza Eric. "Overcoming Religious and Cultural Amnesia: Who Are the Ancestors?”." In Indigenous Black Theology, 75–100. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137002839_4.

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Mahn, Churnjeet. "In Ruins: Cultural Amnesia at the Aam Khas Bagh." In Partition and the Practice of Memory, 255–74. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64516-2_12.

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Colby, Georgina. "Cloning the Nineties: Cultural Amnesia, Terrorism, and Contemporary Iconoclasm in Glamorama." In Bret Easton Ellis, 95–129. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230339163_4.

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Hedges, Inez. "Amnesiac Memory: Hiroshima in Japanese Film." In World Cinema and Cultural Memory, 31–49. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137465122_3.

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Orr, John. "Samuel Beckett: Imprisoned Persona and Irish Amnesia." In Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture, 47–71. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21562-1_4.

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Pintar, Olga Manojlović. "Delusion and Amnesia: Ideology and Culture in Nedić’s Serbia." In Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two, 93–108. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230347816_5.

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Chia, Yeow-Tong. "The Crisis of Historical Amnesia and the “National Education” Response." In Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State, 126–51. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137374608_6.

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Hasian, Marouf. "Judging the Perpetrators of the Holocaust: The Crisis of Legal Representation." In Legal Memories and Amnesias in America's Rhetorical Culture, 153–76. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429037412-7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Cultural Amnesia"

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Hu, Hui. "Research on the Status of Cultural Inheritance in Chinese Character Teaching Thoughts Caused by "Character Amnesia"." In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.259.

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