商品簡介
Performing the Past provides an up-to-date overview of the important and broad field of history and memory. Dealing with a wide range of topics, from museums, novels, and rituals to embodied memory in tattoos and learned studies in education, film, music, and philosophy, the authors investigate the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past two hundred years.
This collection of essays offers valuable insights into the philosophical, literary, musical, and historical frameworks within which the past has entered our language and our imagination. It helps bring out the power of performances to etch narratives about the past into our current preoccupations, political, cultural, and social.
Performing the Past is essential reading for anyone interested in today's memory boom. Drawing on different national and disciplinary traditions, scholars from eight countries lead us through the ways in which Europeans continue a venerable tradition of finding out who they are, and where they are going, by performing the past.
Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale.
"Performing the Past is a dazzling collection of essays by scholars who share a passion for the performative nature of history, memory, and identity. The volume offers refreshing insights for anyone interested in the past."-Joanna Bourke, professor of History at Birkbeck College, London
作者簡介
Karin Tilmans is a historian and the academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies at the European University Institute. Frank van Vree is a historian and professor of journalism at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University.
