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Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory book cover

1st Edition

Contested Pasts The Politics of Memory

Edited By Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone Copyright 2003
278 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and... Read more
Introduction: Contested Pasts  Transforming Pasts  Remembering Suffering: Trauma and History  Patterning the National Past  And Then Silence

Biography

Katharine Hodgkin lectures in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London. Her research centres on questions of autobiography, memory and madness, particularly in the early modern period. She has published several articles on these topics, including most recently 'The Labyrinth and the Pit' (History Workshop Journal 51 2001), a study of madness in seventeenth-century autobiography.
Susannah Radstone teaches in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London. Her research interests are in cultural theory, memory studies and psychoanalysis. Her previous publications include (ed.) Memory and Methodology (2000) and she is currently completing On Memory and Confession, to be published by Routledge.

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