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Ferron's l'Amélanchier is a monument to the quest for identity - the identity not only of the people of Quebec, but of any collective whose very survival is threatened. Communities need external memories - objects and individuals that will recall them to themselves daily and save them from falling prey to the amnesia of the alienated. But these identities and the dangers that threaten them are seldom grasped at the surface: true external memories retrace history in order to lay hold of its essence and thus counter the attempts of our "petroleum civilization" to liquidate the essential by substituting its own pleasing delusions for it.