Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century

Herausgeber: Aurell, Jaume

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book engages the reality of the new historical genres practised today (such as historical re-enactments, gaming history, social media, graphic narratives and first-person narratives of, memoirs of trauma, and film-history) which compete with the traditional model of historical prose (such as monographs, biographies, or narratives histories), and asks if we can we use this category for a critical analysis of historical practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367029753
• ISBN-10: 0367029758
• Artikelnr.: 56926294

Autorenporträt

Jaume Aurell is Professor at the Department of History in the University of Navarra, Spain. He is the author of Authoring the Past: History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (2012) and Theoretical Approaches on Historians¿ Autobiographies (2016). He is the editor of the Series, Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century (Brepols).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking historical genres in the twenty-first century
1.Genre and history/historying 2. Realist histories? When form clashes with
function 3. Rethinking (re)doing: historical re-enactment and/as
historiography 4. Gaming history: computer and video games as historical
scholarship 5. Open genre, new possibilities: democratizing history via
social media 6. Human rights and the literary self-portrait: Vann Nath's A
Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 7. Layering
history: graphic embodiment and emotions in GB Tran's Vietnamerica 8. The
conventions of unconventionality: reconsidering the cinematic historian in
Even the Rain 9. Tales of futures past: science fiction as a historical
genre