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What is history to us? I’ll start with a big claim: it is certainly a, if not the, labor against memory, and so a labor against pain and loss. Historical narrative obscures what one remembers of the pain in that narrative, how that pain is not only passed along through collective memories, but also is constitutive of the identities of those collectives. If history claimed only a marginal practice for itself, or even just that it works alongside memory without questions of legitimacy and truth, then we could tell a different story about history’s kind of story. Read the rest of this entry »
