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.
James Griffith, Ph.D. (2014), DePaul University, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He has published several articles on political philosophy, early modern philosophy, and contemporary Continental philosophy, as well as Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes (2018).
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 The Muses Speak as One
James Griffith
Part 1 Stories and Memories
2 History, Narrative, and Trauma in Balkan Cinema
Sean Homer
3 Narratives of Forced Displacement at the Gates of Europe
Félix Díaz
4 The “Good Soldier” in Hašek’s and Rebreanu’s Narratives of the First World War
Charles Sabatos
5 The Image of the Turk and Oriental Discourse in Panait Istrati’s Kyra Kyralina and Ivo Andrić’s the Bridge on the Drina
Haluk Talay
6 History, Puya and Larei Lathup: On Rejecting the Myth of the Aryan Origin of the Meitei Community in India’s Northeastern State of Manipur Michael Samjetsabam
Part 2 Memories and Histories
7 A Sense of Fatality: History, the Anthropocene, and the Apprehension of Inadequacy
Alexandre Leskanich
8 The View from the Gray Zone: Czechoslovak Underground Journals as Testimonies of Alternative Historical Narratives
Lucie Hunter
9 Remove or Remain? American Attitudes toward Confederate Memorials in the Wake of 2020
Tyler Johnson
10 Architectures of Racial Terror, the Spatiality of the History of Lynching, and the Memorials of Jim Crow’s Amnesia
Alfred Frankowski
11 Home and Homelessness
Jozef Majerník
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This edited volume is of interest to academics and students of philosophy of history, literary studies and memory studies as well as to institutes, libraries, and a more general audience.