Remaking Albania: Public Memory of Communist Past
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2018

Public memory research has become increasingly significant in communication research, especially pertaining to national traumatic pasts.Drawing from scholarship on memory-rhetoric interdependence, this study examines the rhetorical construction of the communist past in contemporary Albania.The analysis of national traditional media, places of memory, and official documents and archives reveals the ways that the communist past is contained, controlled, and diffused in response to present national