Performing the Past: Memory, History and Identity in Modern Europe - Softcover

Karin Tilmans (Editor); Frank Van Vree (Editor); Jay M. Winter (Editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089642056 ISBN 13: 9789089642059

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them is big business; if the past is indeed a foreign country, there are tens of thousands of tourist agents, guides, and pundits around to help us on our way, for a fee, to be sure. This collection of essays by renowned scholars from, among others, Yale, Columbia, Amsterdam Oxford, Cambridge, New York University and the European University Institute in Florence, is essential reading for anyone interested in today's memory boom. Drawing on different national and disciplinary traditions, the authors ultimately engage us with the ways in which Europeans continue a venerable tradition of finding out who they are, and where they are going, by performing the past.

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Review

"Performing the Past is a dazzling collection of essays by scholars who share a passion for the performative nature of history, memory, and identity. The volume offers refreshing insights for anyone interested in the past."

--Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, London

From the Back Cover

'Performing the Past' levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan het veelzijdige debat over de ontwikkeling van de historische cultuur in de westerse wereld vanaf de negentiende eeuw.

Het boek exploreert de relatie tussen herinnering, geschiedenis en identiteit en de rol die rituelen, muziek, verbeelding, fotografie, film en zelfs tatoeages daarin spelen. Het is interdisciplinair van opzet en slaat een brug tussen de verschillende tradities op dit terrein, in het bijzonder tussen de Angelsaksische wereld en continentaal Europa.
'Performing the Past' richt zich op vakgenoten en studenten op het gebied van geschiedenis, sociale wetenschappen, mediastudies, wijsbegeerte, muziek- en literatuurwetenschap en culturele studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9089642056
• ISBN 13: 9789089642059
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Karin Tilmans, Frank Van Vree, Jay M. Winter