Narrating the Past
(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
Published on 28. April 2009
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Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-4438-0170-6 (ISBN)
Description
Narrative constitutes an integral part of human existence, being omnipresent in our ordering of the world and the ways in which we transmit both knowledge and experience. Narrative construction has challenged the supremacy of empirical fact and has questioned our ability to know the past Aas it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, from ancient Greece and medieval Britain to contemporary America, Asia, Australia, Britain and the Caribbean, the essays in this volume address the inconsistencies in master narratives to reveal that all representations of the past, like knowledge, are situated.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-0170-6 (9781443801706)
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Narrating the Past
(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
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02/2007
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Nandita Batra was born in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai), receiving a Bachelor's and Master's from the University of Delhi (India) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (New York). She is now Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagueez, where she is also editor of Revista Atenea, the University's bilingual journal of humanities and social sciencesBorn in Geneva (Switzerland), Vartan P. Messier has taught Literature, Film, French and English in Europe and the U.S. as well as in Central America and the Caribbean. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Riverside. His research focuses on the critical discourses on modernity, modernism, and postmodernism in literature and the visual arts. Nandita and Vartan have collaborated on two other essay collections: Transgression and Taboo (2005) and This Watery World: Humans and the Sea (2008).