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The Duty of Memory: Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 – 2010

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The Duty of Memory

Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 – 2010

Sébastien Ledoux

Translated from the French by Katharine Throssell

288 pages, 10 ills., bilbiog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-041-7 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2025)

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Within France, the expression “duty of memory” (le devoir de mémoire)speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s, highlighting France’s entanglements with colonialism and the Holocaust. Drawing on a variety of interviews, archival sources, and data surveys, author Sébastien Ledoux spotlights how the trajectory of this term offers a lens for understanding contemporary societies’ relationship with the past on a global scale.

Sébastien Ledoux is a historian and senior lecturer at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. His work focuses on the political, social, and cultural aspects of memory in contemporary societies. He is the author of several books: Le devoir de mémoire (CNRS Editions, 2016), La nation en récit (Belin Editeur, 2021), and Histoire et mémoires (CNRS Editions, 2024). In addition to this, he has edited several collected works on a variety of topics, including digital memories, memory laws, teaching, and colonial memories.

Subject: History: 20th Century to PresentCultural Studies (General)Heritage Studies
Area: France


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