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MEMOIRS AND LIFE-WRITINGS

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A city has a past and that past is preserved in its geography and history. But it also preserved in its traditions and memories. A city is a cumulative product of chronicling continuities and discontinuities with reference to all of these. Individual memory plays a significant part in putting together an experiential montage of the city. Memory remembers a lot of city and city excites a lot of memory in cultural production by denizens of protean contemporary cities. Citi-zens are often seen to grapple with the space around them in these documentations of the city, aligning their past, present and future to the past, present and future of the city. Discover on this page the complex interplay between individual memory and cultural memory of the city as visible in memoirs and biographies engendered by citi-zens.

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