Collective memory is defined as the breadth of procedural knowledge the community acquires through experience when interacting with each other and the world. Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology -- that our own memories are not entirely personal. The core idea is that collective attitudes and behaviors are created and shared through common experiences and communication among a group of people. Sometimes we are confronted with memory criticism.

What is meant by memory criticism is simply close readings that people do, people coming from a number of different disciplines, when we look at sites of remembrance. This could be texts, movies, monuments, ceremonies, rituals, cemeteries, anything which marks memory. What is meant by “we”, is a little more complicated. We all come from different intellectual traditions, we u

Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,

Toussaint L’Ouveture,once a grunt in Boukmans army rose to prominence and served in the Jacobin army in 1795 during the bloody French revolution. Haitian independence became possible in May 1795 when Toussaint betrayed his Spanish allies and offered his service to the French. Two of his lieutenants, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe distinguished themselves during these campaigns and later succeeded him as rulers of Haiti. They gained control by betraying their mentor and setting him up to be seized aboard a vessel and taken to France where he died in a dungeon on April 7,1803.

With Noises in the Blood and Cooper's ongoing analysis of indigenous Caribbean cultural forms, the work of artists like Bennett, Marley, the dub poets, and the dance hall DJs have found an intelligent, determined custodian. For Cooper rescues the heretofore neglected folklore, proverbs, music, poetry, and songs that have followed in colonization's wake. They are the vibrant, provocative products of a dynamic, new "New World" culture that is shaking up that of the "Old."

Practitioners of the voodoo religion believed Toussaint was the reborn Mackandal, the original revolutionary. Who was burned at the stake for plotting a slave rebellion to poison the water supply. The believed Mackandal transformed into a mosquito. This was their rationale for the high death rate of the Europeans due to malaria and yellow fever.

I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

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