(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017-01) Molina Iniesta, Mariano
The article attempts to explain the project to rebuild Coventry Cathedral after
World War II in the light of the processes of formation of collective memory
studied by Sociology, highlighting the conflicting interests of a local
community willing to overcome a painful past and a nation interested in using
such past to develop a narrative of victimization and resurrection across the
country. Moreover it presents the project in Coventry as an example of
admonitory monument or Mahnmal, popularized at that time due to the
inability to sustain a narrative of war in terms of courage and honor.
