Open AccessRem(a)inders: Mormon Pioneers’ Life Writings
Author(s) -
Adriane Rodrigues Coelho
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
em tese
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1982-0739
pISSN - 1415-594X
DOI - 10.17851/1982-0739.11.0.9-15
Subject(s) - identity (music) , collective memory , history , aesthetics , literature , epistemology , sociology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , art , political science , law
Understanding that literature, history and memory interweave,this essay aims at showing the importance of nineteenthcenturyMormon personal literature as both historicaldocuments and literary texts, and, at the same time,emphasizing its importance for conveying and maintainingvalues and collective memories, which ultimately provide thegroup with a sense of identity.