Present Pasts Quotes

“To collapse memory into trauma, I think, would unduly confine our understanding of memory, marking it too exclusively in terms of pain, suffering, and loss. It would deny human agency and lock us into compulsive repetition. Memory, whether individual or generational, political or public, is always more than only the prison house of the past.”
― Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory