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The Varieties of Historical Experience

288 Pages

by Routledge

288 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

288 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book considers how history is not just objectively lived but subjectively experienced by people in the process of orienting their present toward the past. It analyses affectivity in historical experience, examines the digital mediation of history, and assesses the current politics of competing historical genres. The contributors explore the diverse ways in which the past may be activated and... Read more

1. Introduction: The Varieties of Historical Experience 2. The Generic Turn: Genre, Audience, and Reclaiming Historical Authority 3. Biographical Construction and Intertextual Being 4. Gooseflesh: Music, Somatosensation, and the Making of Historical Experience 5. Affective Democracy: Building a Community of Feeling through Spanish Mass Grave Exhumations 6. Memory, Mediation, and the Aesthetic: Reframing Waterloo 7. Of Arks and Dragons: The Power of Entertainment in Creationist Historicity 8. Bodies, Artifacts and Ghosts: NAGPRA, Ceremonies of Repossession and the Unsettling of Settler Colonialism 9. Competing Roadways, Contesting Bloodlines: Registers of Biopower at a Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally 10. Iterative Interactions: Old and New Media Inflections of the Historical Imagination 11. Sensors and Sources: How a Universal Model of Instrumentation Affects Our Experiences of the Past 12. Towards a New Historical Condition