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Review Essay: On the Language of Forgetting
Debra Hawhee,Bradford Vivian +1 more
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This article is published in Quarterly Journal of Speech.The article was published on 2009-02-13. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Forgetting.read more
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Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama's Inauguration.
TL;DR: The authors argue that this routine characterization of Obama's election functions as a site for the production of selective amnesia, a form of remembrance that routinely negates and silences those who would contest hegemonic narratives of national progress and unity.
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‘We [for]got him’: Remembering and Forgetting in the Narration of bin Laden’s Death
Lee Jarvis,Jack Holland +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored how the death of Osama bin Laden was narrated by the Obama administration between the night of his killing and the 2012 State of the Union address, and argued that the narration of these events was characterised by considerable discursive continuity with the war on terrorism discourse of George W. Bush, and, second, by a gradual removal or "forgetting" of bin Laden and the circumstances of his death.
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Up from memory: Epideictic forgetting in Booker T. Washington's Cotton States Exposition Address
TL;DR: The Cotton States Exposition Address of Booker T. Washington as mentioned in this paper enlarges our understanding of the genre of witnessing by presenting a version of public testimony and historical remembrance sharply at odds with contemporary definitions of witnessing, and it demonstrates that those who embody the putative collective voice of subaltern communities may call on the public to willfully forget, rather than somberly remember, the crimes of history.
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Forgetting oneself or personal identity in relation to time and otherness in the Zhuangzi
TL;DR: The authors assimilate Ricoeur's three-fold ethical investigation into various areas of human acts of forgetting, including 1) the therapeutic or pathologizing, and 2) the human act of forgetting.
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Language, Memory, and Exile in the Writing of Milan Kundera
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a Dedication and Acknowledgements scheme for the authorship of their work, which is based on the concept of Dedication-Acknowledgements.