Sofia’s Reviews > Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory > Status Update

Only read the acknowledgment and introduction and already feel benefitted by this book.

"Every conception of the past is construed from the standpoint of the new problems of today." Barry Schwartz

The efficiency of the oral source does not lie in the preservation of the past, but in the effort of the teller to give significance to the past from a present day position. Thus 'memory is not a passive depository of facts, but an active process of creation of meanings.