Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century

Herausgeber: Aurell, Jaume

• Gebundenes 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 .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781138680289
• ISBN-10: 1138680281
• Artikelnr.: 57047988

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