Volume 3, Number 1, January 2019
Memory Works
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The Profanity of Memory: Temporality and the Rhetoric of ‘Too Soon’
The temporality of public memory is perhaps most evident when there are objections that some irreverent comment is made ‘too soon’ after a traumatic event. This essay explores this dimension of sacred temporality and a corollary sense of sacred space in relation to moments and spaces of remembrance.