Journal of Australian Studies, March 1st, 2000
What are the periodicities of remembrance shared with others? Writing in the final volume of Les Lieux de memoire Pierre Nora identifies two primary forms of commemorative time: that of the centenary, `voluntary, deliberate, impossible either to avoid or to manage', and that of the generation, `involuntary and even unconscious, uncontrollable'.(1) These are the interwoven times of the nation-state and of living collective memory. In this chapter I ask about the kinds of connection that are possible between the pain or joy of generational experience and the forms of identification invoked by ...
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