Memory, history and narrative: shifts of meaning when (re)constructing the past
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Psicología BásicaPublisher
PsychOpenDate
2012Citation
10.5964/ejop.v8i2.460
Europe's Journal of Psychology 8.2 (2012): 300–310
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1841-0413 (online)DOI
10.5964/ejop.v8i2.460Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v8i2.460Subjects
History; Memory; Mediation; Narratives; Events; PsicologíaAbstract
This paper is devoted to the examination of some socio-cultural dimensions of memory, focusing on narratives as a meditational tool (Vygotsky, 1978) for the construction of past events and attribution of meaning. The five elements of Kenneth Burke’s Grammar of Motives (1969) are taken as a framework for the examination of reconstructions of the past and particularly of histories, namely: 1) the interpretative and reconstructive action of 2) a positioned agent operating 3) through narrative means 4) addressed to particular purposes 5) within a concrete social and temporal scenery. The reflexive character of such approach opens the ground for considering remembering as one kind of act
performed within the context of a set of on-going actions, so that remembrances play a directive role for action and so have an unavoidable moral dimension. This is particularly relevant for some kinds of social memory such as history teaching and their effects upon identity
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Google Scholar:Brescó de Luna, Ignacio
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Rosa Rivero, Alberto
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