Identity and Belonging in the Novels of Doron Rabinovici

Simões, Anabela Valente

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“…In this article, culture is understood as the expression of a subject's identity as a member of a social whole and the aggregating entity of the various mental and material images that constitute our collective memory, i.e., the set of social representations based on or inspired by events or relevant figures from the past, representations that are produced, institutionalized and stored within each group and then transmitted through the interaction of its members [45]. In turn, as stated in [46] (p. 21), collective memory consists of varied forms in which a community is tied to its past.…”

Section: Collective Memory and Cultural Identity: Linking The Past Pr...mentioning

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Street Art in Aveiro: City Walls as Dialogic Spaces of Collective Memories and Identity

Simões

2023

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In urban centers around the world, street art has become an unavoidable element of the landscape. Located in west-central Portugal, Aveiro is no exception to this trend, and the art form has been used to enhance the cultural vibrancy of a place where tourism is one of the most important economic pillars. Seeking to look beyond the value of street art as a tourism product, by combining observations and photos from field research with bibliographic and documental data, as well as residents’ responses on social media, this paper adopts an autoethnographic approach to offer an exploratory, (self-)reflexive perspective on how street art has evolved into a phenomenon that has contributed to locals’ cultural identity (re)construction. Drawing on Jan Assmann’s cultural memory theory, it is argued that street art can be understood as a form of communicative memory, an ephemeral vehicle into our history, knowledge, traditions and practices, one that, by retelling the story of who we are, stimulates awareness of selfhood and a feeling of belonging to a place and a community.

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Section: Collective Memory and Cultural Identity: Linking The Past Pr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Street Art in Aveiro: City Walls as Dialogic Spaces of Collective Memories and Identity

Simões

2023

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Identity and Belonging in the Novels of Doron Rabinovici

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Street Art in Aveiro: City Walls as Dialogic Spaces of Collective Memories and Identity

Street Art in Aveiro: City Walls as Dialogic Spaces of Collective Memories and Identity

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