... appropriating the past into a contemporary dynamic of power, identity formation or determination of cultural norms. Its documents can be as diverse as acts of commemoration and monuments, memoirs, novels and films, works of art, jokes, children's textbooks, written or filmed testimony relating to a particular cultural event or era. In this paper I will explore cultural memory as it informs narratives, novels, and ... Bennett, Marley, the dub poets, and the dance hall DJs have found an intelligent, determined custodian. For Cooper rescues the heretofore neglected folklore, proverbs, musi...

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