Collective memory and national identity: Letters to the Editor. Or words on the air for an exercise of (the) memory

Abstract

This writing offers a discussion in regards to the possibility that individual memories, originated in diverse national contexts -this is, spread by physical as well as politics distances- and gathered by a subject matter farely common -as is the experience of the extended phenomenon of vagrancy (or street situation, as is mostly called nowadays)- can constitute or be constituted in collective memory given their common characteristics. Being a bibliographical critical exercise on this particular subject, it also refers to the conventional forms of essay writing, upon adopting the most contemporary format as is the e-mail, taking into account the incidency that virtual communication and technologies associated to Internet have opened to memory and  identity, upon acting as its day to day difuminator/recreator.