What One Cannot Remember Mistakenly
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An article within Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and Interpreting Experience (see citations below).
"This may be the single best, most moving, most powerful article I have read. The idea of'invisible Kilimanjaros' has stayed with me for years. Even more important, at least to me, was Fields' ability to articulate the injustice we do to the past in thinking we can understand it better than those who suffer through it."
-Fields, Karen. “What One Cannot Remember Mistakenly.” Memory and History: Essays on Recalling and Interpreting Experience. Ed. Jaclyn Jeffrey and Glenace Edwall. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. 89-106.
-Fields, Karen. “What One Cannot Remember Mistakenly.” Oral History. 17.1. (1989): 44-53.
Recommended by Geoffrey Koziol, Professor of History and author of The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas.