The Explosion Of Collective Memory In The 20th Century

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Before the explosion of autobiographies that came with the 20th century, collective memory was the most widely used way of remembering the past. Individuals have always used cultural tools when representing the past with examples being “written symbols in books, paintings and icons, museums and monuments, and today the huge amount of information distributed on the internet” (Boyer, Pascal, James V. Wertsch, 2009). Individuals have always come together and agreed on the past when recounting it and in doing so have created collective memories. Traditions and myths are good examples of collective memories as they are stories and acts that a collective agree on whether or not they are true. Collective memory therefore does not need to be factual
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