History Memory And Nostalgia In Literature And Culture Rudaityt by Rudaitytė, Regina 9781527508767, 9781527514539, 1527508765, 1527514536 instant download after payment.

The advent of the new age has alerted us to the conflicted nature of historical memory which defined the 20th century while simultaneously assaulting us with new historical upheavals that demand responsibility and critical consideration. As the historical text bears traces of the writing subject, the element of deception is remarkable, meaning historical memory easily lends itself to forgery and false and subjective projections. As such, how do we think about the past, about history, about memory, and how does memory function? Is history an objective account, a collection of dry, reliable facts.;Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Remembrance of Journeys Past; Beyond Nostalgia; "The Past Is A Foreign Country"; Memory, Identity and Displacement in Heshel's Kingdom by Dan Jacobson; Personal Landscape; "Where is the Place Where it All Really Happened?"; I Mourn Thee Now; Liars, Similes and Story-tellers in The Blue-Guitar (2015) by John Banville; Devaluating Testimony; Postmemory and Copresence in Lisa Appignanesi and Emilia Degenius; Whose Memory? Contemporary Narratives of the Japanese American World War II Internment; History, (Non)Memory and the Ideological Uses of Genre