Au fil de nos souvenirs : le 17 octobre 1961, emblème des violences policières
Through the analysis of an event eclipsed and forced back by French collective history – the gathering of October 17th, 1961 of Algerians demonstrating against curfew and its bloody repression – this article intends to think about the way our memories express themselves and how personal experiments...
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Université de Provence
2007-11-01
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| description | Through the analysis of an event eclipsed and forced back by French collective history – the gathering of October 17th, 1961 of Algerians demonstrating against curfew and its bloody repression – this article intends to think about the way our memories express themselves and how personal experiments can be given a shared sense. It shows how a traumatic event can constitute a memorial landmark which generates substitutions and successive transformations. Then, the reference to a unique event becomes less visible and scatters in various directions. From an evocation to another, from an entrepreneur de mémoire to another, the memory of October 17th, 1961, supported by photographs left by Kagan, becomes the symbol of police violence. This example illustrates the complexity of memory dynamics by revealing how an event can come back, by the detour of photography, as a fact or a trace, and be reinvested in a present time where it still makes sense. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-00c73b2a3c5e4b25ba82d14f86d2404c2025-01-09T13:22:50ZengUniversité de ProvenceRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée0997-13272105-22712007-11-0111923324810.4000/remmm.4293Au fil de nos souvenirs : le 17 octobre 1961, emblème des violences policièresClotilde LebasThrough the analysis of an event eclipsed and forced back by French collective history – the gathering of October 17th, 1961 of Algerians demonstrating against curfew and its bloody repression – this article intends to think about the way our memories express themselves and how personal experiments can be given a shared sense. It shows how a traumatic event can constitute a memorial landmark which generates substitutions and successive transformations. Then, the reference to a unique event becomes less visible and scatters in various directions. From an evocation to another, from an entrepreneur de mémoire to another, the memory of October 17th, 1961, supported by photographs left by Kagan, becomes the symbol of police violence. This example illustrates the complexity of memory dynamics by revealing how an event can come back, by the detour of photography, as a fact or a trace, and be reinvested in a present time where it still makes sense.https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/4293 |
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| title | Au fil de nos souvenirs : le 17 octobre 1961, emblème des violences policières |
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