Abstract
Every Mexican, from birth onwards, received a welter of memories that fashioned, explained, contradicted and enlivened personal experience and guided behaviour.1 These pieces of collective memory drew on family stories, widely-told rumours, neighbourhood recollections, church homilies, heroic tales and well-oiled anecdotes of matriarchs, old soldiers, town-square loiterers and market-place gossips. Of course, communion lessons and grade school classes added some formal structure to these personal mental collages of the past. Each Mexican soon possessed a fine thicket of personal views of the community's heritage.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 45-64 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Sociology and Political Science
- Literature and Literary Theory