Forgetting Futures: On Meaning, Trauma, and Identity - Couverture rigide

Ramadanovic, Petar

 
9780739102756: Forgetting Futures: On Meaning, Trauma, and Identity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0739102753 ISBN 13 : 9780739102756
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2001

Synopsis

Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present, remembering and forgetting. In the book Petar Ramadanovic presents an elegant critique of the most significant concepts of memory, from Plato to Nietzsche, as he challenges the prevalent, Aristotelain understanding of memory as mere repeated presentation of the past in the present.

Ramadanovic skillfully examines the power of traumatic memory in history. Through an analysis of Cathy Caruth and a ground breaking revisionist interpretation of Toni Morrisons Beloved he shows how the memory of the Holocaust and slavery has shaped American identity. This unique study of memory places trauma, identity, and race under the intellectual microscope resulting in a book of great use for literary and cultural studies scholars, and educated readers seeking to learn more about the relationship between history and memory.

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À propos de l?auteur

Petar Ramadanovic is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0739102753
ISBN 13 
9780739102756
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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