Enacting Remembrance Day in the Public Sphere

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  • Noor Iqbal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cons9578

Abstract

The form of commemoration offered by Remembrance Day ceremonies works to produce a sense of nationalist patriotism. The ‘public history’ of the nation, as a mode of self-representation, presents a particular narrative of limited scope, occluding all elements that do not fit its ideological framework. Remembrance Day simultaneously invokes and educates Canadian collective memory and public history, mediated through the contemporary power/knowledge discourse on war.

The values, structure, and 'tendencies of a society' become evident in collective memory and this cultural heritage of society becomes a site at which it is 'visible to itself'.

Author Biography

Noor Iqbal

Noor Iqbal is in her third-year of a double major in German and History. She is a handweaver, and is interested in the environmental, religious, and cultural tensions of the early modern period.

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Published

2010-12-16

How to Cite

Iqbal, N. (2010). Enacting Remembrance Day in the Public Sphere. Constellations, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.29173/cons9578

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