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Diasporic Memories: Community, Individuality, and Creativity—A Life Stories Perspective
- Oral History Review
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 36, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2009
- pp. 177-187
- Article
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Can we talk of a collective, diasporic memory? I will argue that in the case of the African-Caribbean community, there are distinctive features—such as the need to tell and the need to connect—which suggest that this diasporic memory is framed through identifiable cultural templates, which distinguish it from the memories of migrants.