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Titre William Bradford et la fondation des lettres américaines : Entre écriture de l'Histoire et architecture de la mémoire
Auteur Lauric Henneton
Mir@bel Revue Revue française d'études américaines
Numéro no 112, mai 2007 Lettres d'Amérique
Page 5-15
Résumé anglais This study of William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation points to the relation between the process of historical writing and the shaping of a prospective memory of the founding of the Plymouth colony. Bradford's writing dictates what is to be remembered, while putting the founding moments under a providential light. As one of the most iconic texts from the colonial period, Bradford's History has strongly contributed to the representations of the “Pilgrim Fathers”, not only through retrospective readings but also through its author's shaping of a prospective memory.
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