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This concept titles a book that analyzes Disney’s plans for a slavery-themed park and ends with a crowd throwing a statue of Columbus into the sea. Van Wyck Brooks wrote that this concept’s “inexhaustible storehouse of apt attitudes” makes it “usable.” An emotion aimed at this concept is instead paired with this concept’s opposite in the title of a 2001 Svetlana Boym book. (15[1])Building on William James, Carl Becker argued that we “rob” this concept to create its successor’s “specious” form. The “silencing” of this concept was studied by (*) Michel-Rolph (10[1])Trouillot (10[4])(“troo-YO”). Barack Obama’s (10[2]-5[1])“A More Perfect Union” (10[1])speech paraphrased a remark about this concept from Requiem for a Nun. The first sentence of L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between (-5[1])calls (10[1])this (10[1])concept a “foreign country” where (10[1])“they do things differently.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this concept that William Faulkner wrote is “never dead. It’s not even” this concept. ■END■ (10[2])

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