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Conversations about Mother: Mnemonic Strategies for Narrating Survival in (Post-) War Germany
2022
This article explores the strong correlations between mnemonic strategies and mnemonic triggers within family narratives. Families form narrative collectives with their own codes of narrative evocation. One sentence, even only one word, might open up a bundle of memories shared by all immediate kin. Such sharing can, however, be practised and interpreted differently by each family member; stories are also utilised strategically to bond with one family member and sideline another. Given the
doi:10.25455/wgtn.21273297
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