Memory and Identity: Ghosts of the Past in the English-speaking World (Memory Studies: Global Constellations)

By: Linda Pillière and Karine Bigand

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Synopsis: This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past. Drawing on case studies in historical, political, literary and linguistic studies, it explores the narratives that produce imagined communities and identities and the places in which cultural identities are constructed through memory, asking how far these identities and memories disinherit or exclude otherness, and how far ghosts disturb orderly narratives, inviting multiple readings of the past. Thematically organized to consider the persistence of ghosts within present memory and identity, the creation of new identities through intertwining narratives of the past, and the reclamation of identities in postcolonial contexts, Memory and Identity: Ghosts of the past in the English-speaking world offers a multi-disciplinary examination of the concept of haunting. Memory and Identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and history with interests in memory and identity.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 467 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000768459
Related ISBNs:: 9781003178040, 9781032012865, 9781032012841
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/24/22
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Linda Pillière and Karine Bigand
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Linda Pillière
Edited by:: Karine Bigand