memorialistic

comparative more memorialistic · superlative most memorialistic

1. Characteristic of or involving a memorial.

   In this regard, the memorialistic embeddedness of today’s film and TV productions dealing with aspects of the Civil War is of particular interest because they address mostly viewers who did not experience the conflict first-hand.

   2012, Caroline Rothauge, “Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return”, in Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins, editors, Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict (Culture & Conflict), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 45

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   It is worth drawing attention here to the rich memorialistic literature from which I limit myself to citing the exceptional epic of prison life published by Ion Ioanid under the title Închisoarea noastră cea de toate zilele (Our daily prison).

   2001, Lucian Boia, translated by James Christian Brown, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 256

   […]; the other being the years that followed the economic crises of 2001, when the open prison began to be linked to a memorialistic process centered around the appropriation and transformation of former sites of detention into spaces for memory.

   2012, Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America, University of Pittsburgh Press, page 4