Italian American Women, Food, and Identity by Andrea L. Dottolo & Carol Dottolo

Author:Andrea L. Dottolo & Carol Dottolo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Memory

An important feature of Hartley ’ (1953) phrase is the reference to the group, the collective, that in the past, “they do things differently.” The individual memories expressed by the women we interviewed are created and interpreted in a social context. In his discussion of collective memory , Halbwachs (1941/1992, 1950/1980) wrote that it is only the group understanding that creates the possibility of individual memories. This is important to the ways our participants expressed nostalgia in several ways. First, many brought recipes to the interview that they recalled from memory , some writing them down for the first time for our conversation. They learned these recipes from mothers , aunts, grandmothers, often observing and mentally recording the cooking methods and techniques in a group, in crowded kitchens with women working all at once. They interpret and reinterpret these recipes through collectivities.

Relatedly, Espin (2015) states,The group constructs the memory and individuals do the remembering within those parameters. Collective memories are always selective, therefore different groups may have different memories of the same event, which in turn affect modes of behavior for both individuals and groups. (p. 32)

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