Divided Memory

Foot, John

doi:10.1057/9780230101838_1

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“…10 From the 2000s onwards, "Fossoli" occurred also with words like "Basovizza" or "foibe," activating a different set of historical knowledgethe history of communist regimes in East Europe and human rights violationsand connecting it with Fossoli. This new co-text, linked to the new commemorative circumstance, is explained by a change in politics of memory and also by a conflict over memory (Foot 2009). In fact, a right-wing government instituted the Memorial Day for the foibe in 2004, with an anti-communist aim, namely to contrast the memory of the Resistance, in which the symbolic legacy of communist militants is particularly important.…”

Section: Contextual and Circumstantial Selections: Commemorative Datementioning

confidence: 99%

A semiotic theory of memory: between movement and form*

Salerno

2020

Semiotica

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In the multidisciplinary field of memory studies, remembering and forgetting have mainly been analyzed following two ideal-typical models: memory-as-containment (exemplified by the notions of framework and site of memory) and memory-as-flow (epitomized by the notions of afterlife and mnemohistory). These two models are often presented as mutually exclusive and counterposed. Yet, in linking past with present, and when connecting different spaces and generations, memory is always the result of circulation (flow) as well as of local semiotic conditions of production and use (containment). By investigating memory-making and oblivion-making in processes of interpretation, the semiotic perspective elaborated by Umberto Eco allows us to envision memory-as-containment and memory-as-flow in a combined analysis, where the twofold conception of memory – either as movement or as form – merges. The aim of this article is, then, to provide an interpretative theory of memory, and to identify and describe the methodological tools capable of implementing such an approach. The memory of the former Italian concentration camp of Fossoli will serve as an exemplary and illustrative case study.

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Section: Contextual and Circumstantial Selections: Commemorative Datementioning

confidence: 99%

A semiotic theory of memory: between movement and form*

Salerno

2020

Semiotica

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“…Thus, Perlasca's reputation emerged from the activity of witnesses (as first level reputational entrepreneurs) and Yad Vashem as a positive, rather than as divided or subcultural, reputation. This was a crucial aspect for the importance of Perlasca's figure in a new context – Italy – where he could have been perceived as more difficult to remember, given the fact that the relevant cleavages in Italian memory were different from those in Israeli society, especially with regards to the left‐right distinction and the role of religious discourse in public life, all factors that contribute to Italy's “divided memory” (Foot, ). A positive reputation tout court usually silences possible objections, especially when it is framed not in political terms but, rather, as an example of universal values.…”

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Silencing the Good: Memory, Forgetting and the Belated Reputation of Giorgio Perlasca

Cossu¹

2018

J Historical Sociology

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The sociological analysis of the reputation of historical figures has rarely paid attention to temporal delays in the emergence of collective memory. This article focuses on a case of belated reputation as a particular reputational trajectory. I analyse the reputational trajectory of the Italian Giorgio Perlasca, who posed as Spain's representative in Budapest during the German occupation of 1944-5, and saved thousands of Jews from deportation. Upon his return to Italy, his story was neglected, only to resurface forty years after the events. An analysis of these processes requires the consideration of three factors: the presence of agents who promote a reputation, the configuration of centre-periphery relations, and the memorability of the figure. The consideration of how these three factors change over time offers an adequate account of processes of commemoration.

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“…For a long time, Italy has been regarded as an exemplar case of divided memory where, as historian John Foot (2009) argues, “it has proved extremely difficult, if not impossible, for any group—public or private—to create a consensus around the past, or around ways of remembering the past” (p. 1). Problematic memories, first of all the memory of fascism and the memory of the Resistance against fascism, were first sidelined and have since erupted in the public arena, adding a dimension of symbolic conflict to an endemic climate of political polarization that was exacerbated during the 1990s.…”

Section: Italy and The Reconfiguration Of Republican Memorymentioning

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From lines to networks: Calendars, narrative, and temporality

Cossu

2018

Memory Studies

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The focus of the article is the analysis of a particular site of collective memory (one state’s system of national holidays condensed in a calendar) from a perspective that highlights its relational and narrative characteristics. By adopting the idea of “commemorative networks,” the article will regard commemorated events as nodes in a network, connected by ties that highlight the causal relationship between any two events as perceived by the commemorating agencies in the making of narratives of the state. This approach offers a methodologically sound complement to other perspectives that investigate the formal narrative and semiotic features of “collective memory.”

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Divided Memory

Cited by 29 publications

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A semiotic theory of memory: between movement and form*

A semiotic theory of memory: between movement and form*

Silencing the Good: Memory, Forgetting and the Belated Reputation of Giorgio Perlasca

From lines to networks: Calendars, narrative, and temporality

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