Stories and Memories, Memories and Histories - (Value Inquiry Book) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This edited volume brings together authors from a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities--political science, philosophy, literary studies, theology, and film studies--on the topics of time, narrativity, and identity.

Book Synopsis

This edited volume brings together authors from a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. A historian first investigates understudied samizdat literature, a film critic then analyzes Balkan cinema via psychoanalysis, a psychologist examines contemporary European border policies, and a political scientist analyzes the Confederate-memorial debate. Philosophers consider the space of those memorials, ethno-national narratives in India, the Anthropocene and the mind's historical imaginary, and the notion of home. Literary critics examine recent developments in modes of storytelling and images of Orientalism. What emerges is a new understanding of history, memory, and time.