Between Memory And History Nora Pierre Analysis
The reading, Between Memory and History Les Lieux de Memoire by Nora Pierre is about the “appearance of the race, of mediation, of distance, we are not the realm of true memory but of history” (Pierre 8). It was interesting to know that Pierre links memory and history together even though it is far from being a synonymous. Pierre defines memory as it “is life, borne by living societies founded in its name… and history is the reconstruction, always problematic and incomplete, of what is no longer” (8). I enjoyed reading Nora Pierre’s reading, I understand through this reading that memory and history contains the images in our head of an event that is something of the past and has been lost. I agree that history is always a memory and its task