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Published on: August 15, 2010
National memory
Jeremy K Yamashiro1, Zizhan Yao1
1University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.
Abstract:
Ernest Renan defined a nation as a community sharing a rich legacy of memories, the desire to live together, and the desire to build on their mutual heritage. We review psychological research on how representations of the national past are molded to help memory fulfill these identitarian functions. Specifically, we examine nationalistic overclaiming of historical influence, the ideologically normative function of charters in the form of origin stories, schematic frameworks for meaning making in the form of national narrative templates and implicit temporal trajectories, transformations of national memory across generations in response to contemporary priorities, identity positioning in relation to shameful histories or memories of victimhood, and the relation between national memory and imagination for the national future.
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