Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada

by James Opp (Editor), John C. Walsh (Editor)

Places are imagined, made, claimed, fought for and defended, and always in a state of becoming. This important book explores the historical and theoretical relationships among place, community, and public memory across differing chronologies and geographies within twentieth-century Canada. It is a collaborative work that shifts the focus from nation and empire to local places sitting at the intersection of public memory making and identity formation - main streets, city squares and village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the landscape itself. With a focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, the essays gathered here argue that every act of memory making is simultaneously an act of forgetting; every place memorialized is accompanied by places forgotten.

340 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't read all of the articles in the book, but the ones I did read were very interesting and thought-provoking.