History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from ...loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety.A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and important extracts from their works which highlight various meanings of loss: from physical ailments to social ostracism, exile to imprisonment, and from dispossession to potential execution. Throughout the volume consideration of the information "bubbles" of different times and places helps to show how information has been weaponized to cause harm. In this way, the text helps to put current debates about the biases and weaponization of platforms such as social media into global and historical perspectives. In combination, the chapters build a picture of history from loss which is global, sustained, and anything but a simple mirror of history made by victors. The volume also includes an Introduction and Afterword, which draw out the key meanings of history from loss and which offer ideas for further exploration.History from Loss provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history-makers into global and historical perspectives.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana ...Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and Garth Greenwell each use flashbacks, historical parallels and non-sequential narrative arrangements to emphasise the re-emergence, in a twenty-first-century context, of historical structures and circumstances. This study explores how these frequent moments of temporal slippage amount to a ‘falling out of time’, as characters are forced to confront the past crises which continue to exert pressure on their own contemporary moment.
History from Loss challenges the common thought that ""history is written by the winners"" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from ...loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety. A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and important extracts from their works which highlight various meanings of loss: from physical ailments to social ostracism, exile to imprisonment, and from dispossession to potential execution. Throughout the volume consideration of the information ""bubbles"" of different times and places helps to show how information has been weaponized to cause harm. In this way, the text helps to put current debates about the biases and weaponization of platforms such as social media into global and historical perspectives. In combination, the chapters build a picture of history from loss which is global, sustained, and anything but a simple mirror of history made by victors. The volume also includes an Introduction and Afterword, which draw out the key meanings of history from loss and which offer ideas for further exploration. History from Loss provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history-makers into global and historical perspectives.
Originally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of ...historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. "'History' is not only an object we can study," writes White, "it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography."
Singular Pasts Traverso, Enzo; Schoene, Adam
11/2022
eBook
Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A
growing number of historical works include an autobiographical
dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the
inner life ...of the author. Neither traditional history nor
autobiography, this hybrid genre calls the norms of the historical
profession into question. In search of new and creative paths, it
transgresses a cardinal rule of the discipline: third-person
narration, long considered necessary to the objective analysis of
the past. Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the
emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing,
scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo
Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians, including
Ivan Jablonka, Sergio Luzzatto, and Mark Mazower, who reveal their
emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary
flavor. He identifies a parallel trend in literature, in which
authors such as W. G. Sebald, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and
Daniel Mendelsohn write their works as investigations based on
archival sources. Traverso argues that first-person history mirrors
contemporary ways of thinking: such writing is presentist and
apolitical, perceiving and representing the past through an
individual lens. Probing the limits of subjective historiography,
he emphasizes that it is collective action that produces social
change: "we" instead of "I." In an epilogue, Traverso considers the
first-person writing of Saidiya Hartman as a counterexample. A
wide-ranging and illuminating critique of a key trend in humanistic
inquiry, Singular Pasts reconsiders the notion of
historical truth in a neoliberal age.
From the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, this book offers fresh ...insight into modern narrative.
