Rethinking Historical Genres in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780367029753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 str.

Jaume Aurell

Opis

This book engages the reality of the new historical genres practised today (such as historical re-enactments, gaming history, social media, graphic narratives and first-person narratives of, memoirs of trauma, and film-history) which compete with the traditional model of historical prose (such as monographs, biographies, or narratives histories), and asks if we can we use this category for a critical analysis of historical practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

Spis treści

Introduction: Rethinking historical genres in the twenty-first century  1.Genre and history/historying  2. Realist histories? When form clashes with function  3. Rethinking (re)doing: historical re-enactment and/as historiography  4. Gaming history: computer and video games as historical scholarship  5. Open genre, new possibilities: democratizing history via social media  6. Human rights and the literary self-portrait: Vann Nath’s A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge’s S-21  7. Layering history: graphic embodiment and emotions in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica  8. The conventions of unconventionality: reconsidering the cinematic historian in Even the Rain  9. Tales of futures past: science fiction as a historical genre

O autorze

Jaume Aurell is Professor at the Department of History in the University of Navarra, Spain. He is the author of Authoring the Past: History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia (2012) and Theoretical Approaches on Historians’ Autobiographies (2016). He is the editor of the Series, Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century (Brepols).