Histoire, mémoire et culture visuelle - Andreas Huyssen

"The geographic dissemination of the culture of memory is both extensive and varied in terms of its political uses, and mobilises myths from the past. For example, the heroic French myth of the Resistance went through a crisis in the 1980s when the past of president Mitterrand came to light. History had been reinvented, and since this reinvention, public debates on memory have been decisive. There is no historiography that does not have a mythical component. Historiography depends on its narr..