1st Edition
Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century
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
Biography
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).
