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Forgetting Futures: On Meaning, Trauma and Identity - Hardcover

Petar Ramadanovic

 
9780739102756: Forgetting Futures: On Meaning, Trauma and Identity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0739102753 ISBN 13: 9780739102756
Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2001

Synopsis

Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present, remembering and forgetting. In the book Petar Ramadanovic presents an elegant critique of the most significant concepts of memory, from Plato to Nietzsche, as he challenges the prevalent, Aristotelain understanding of memory as mere repeated presentation of the past in the present.

Ramadanovic skillfully examines the power of traumatic memory in history. Through an analysis of Cathy Caruth and a ground breaking revisionist interpretation of Toni Morrisons Beloved he shows how the memory of the Holocaust and slavery has shaped American identity. This unique study of memory places trauma, identity, and race under the intellectual microscope resulting in a book of great use for literary and cultural studies scholars, and educated readers seeking to learn more about the relationship between history and memory.

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About the Author

Petar Ramadanovic is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

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Publisher
Lexington Books (UK)
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0739102753
ISBN 13 
9780739102756
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192