Narrating the Past
(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2021
170 pages
978-1-5275-6853-2 (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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(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Narration, Memory, History: An Introduction
- Part I: Telling the Past: Between Fact and Fiction
- To Narrate the Past
- Remember
- The Third Eye
- Truth Versus Knowledge
- Part II: (Re)constructing the Caribbean: Memory and History
- Masks, Mirrors, Mirth and Memory in Rane Arroyo's Hungry Ghost
- Raíces Eternas
- The Jamaican Beginnings and World Travels of Claude McKay
- Stories that Save Themselves
- Part III: Narrating Women
- Preposterous Women
- A Violent Homeland
- Tales of Sound and Fury
- Contributors
- Index
