Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to 'history', while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered. Drawing from popular films, novels and TV series of recent years, and engaging with key thinkers from Marx to Derrida, Remaking History is a must for all students interested in the meaning that history has for fiction, and vice versa.…mehr
Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to 'history', while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered. Drawing from popular films, novels and TV series of recent years, and engaging with key thinkers from Marx to Derrida, Remaking History is a must for all students interested in the meaning that history has for fiction, and vice versa.
Jerome de Groot is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Historical Novel (2009), Consuming History (2008), and Royalist Identities (Palgrave, 2004).
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Contents Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction: Perverting History Section One: Ethics Politics and Nationalism Chapter One: Reading and Ethics Chapter 2: Challenging national histories Section Two: Haunting Ghostliness and the Undead Chapter Three: The materiality of the past Chapter Four: The problem of Time and the return of the Dead Section Three: Pleasure Affect and Performance Chapter Five: Pleasure and desire Chapter 6: Performance and Affect Conclusions
Contents Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction: Perverting History Section One: Ethics Politics and Nationalism Chapter One: Reading and Ethics Chapter 2: Challenging national histories Section Two: Haunting Ghostliness and the Undead Chapter Three: The materiality of the past Chapter Four: The problem of Time and the return of the Dead Section Three: Pleasure Affect and Performance Chapter Five: Pleasure and desire Chapter 6: Performance and Affect Conclusions
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