Towards a postmodern national narrative? The Algerian war memorial and contemporary French landscapes of memory

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ID12905495
AuthorsAndrea Brazzoduro (0000-0002-0008-5468, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume15
Issue4
Pages858-882
Publication date2019-07-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1750698019863148
OpenAlexW2959102336
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited37

Based on the analysis of files from the Department of Defence, and drawing on interviews with veterans and on their associations’ press, the article focuses on the Algerian War National Memorial in Paris, its long gestation and particularly its double, paradoxical status: that it is at the same time new and old, post-ideological and hyper-ideological. Thanks to its palimpsest configuration, this ‘third millennium memorial’ – as it was described by its creator (the artist Gérard Collin-Thiébaut) – has demonstrated itself to be perfectly tuned to that peculiar mode of relationship to the past that we can define as ‘postmodern’, a mode that is characteristic of what historian François Hartog called the presentist ‘regime of historicity’

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Historicity (philosophy · Ideology · Literature · Mode (computer interface · Narrative · Palimpsest · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Presentism · Sociology · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature

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