Category Archives: identi-

history, social memory, identity

An inquiry posted on the xmca list asks for bibliographic references to help a student who
… wants to study how memories of significant events (in this case events during the period of political violence here during the 80s) are transmitted between the generation that experienced them and the generation following. He also would [...]

Kenneth Burke, identity / identification, Activity Theory

While I’m at it with Kenneth Burke, here’s another favorite passage , on “identification,” illustrated with a provocative, if not downright disturbing, classroom scenario.
Included in the two pages linked above, Burke writes: