Caftanism, instead of the oblivion
The following research is based on the existing contributions in the domain of the memory studies and notion of fine difference between processes of memorising, remembering and forgetting. After a brief introduction to the meaning of terms crucial for the cultural memory and their use in th...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2024/0350-08612403077J.pdf |
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| Summary: | The following research is based on the existing contributions in the domain
of the memory studies and notion of fine difference between processes of
memorising, remembering and forgetting. After a brief introduction to the
meaning of terms crucial for the cultural memory and their use in the
identity construction process, this theoretical frame will be further
analysed through the observation of my grandmothers’, Ashkenazi-born
Belgradian, family photo album as a particular figure of memory. Realizing
that this photo album does not reveal neither one image of Holocaust and
tragic memories, while my grandmother did remember these, a contribution to
the cultures of memory theory will be offered and explained through the
metaphor of caftan. When unaccepted, it seems as we create robes to hide
fragments of our identity under the caftan, everything our social
surrounding would not like, or aspects about ourselves we do not want to
present. Proposing this term to the cultural memory studies, caftanism would
refer to the socially constructed oblivion, which is completely different
than the real, literal forgetting. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |