ABSTRACT
Memory is the after-life of history. It is through memory that history continues to live in the hopes, the ends, and the expectations of men and women as they seek to make sense of the business of life, to find a pattern in chaos, to construe familiar solutions to unfamiliar worries. Remembered history is the stuff of which these hopes, objectives and insights are made; in turn, the latter are the repositories where images of the past are rescued from oblivion. Memory is history-in-action. Remembered history is the logic which the actors inject into their strivings and which they employ to invest credibility into their hopes. In its after-life, history reincarnates as a Utopia which guides, and is guided by, the struggles of the present.
