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

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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. The single best account of the forcefield between history and memory in European life today, by renowned international scholars Offers an unparalleled insight into the philosophical, literary, musical, and historical frameworks within which the past has entered our language and our imagination Helps bring out the power of performances to etch narratives about the past into our current preoccupations, political, cultural, and social

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