Research Catalog

Title

Culture and power : the plots of history in performance / edited by Rubén Valdés Miyares and Carla Rodríguez González.

Publication

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Valdés Miyares, J. Rubén.
• Rodríguez González, Carla.

Description

vii, 292 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

This is a collection of essays on the configuration of history as text, including the visual with a particular focus on the performance of historical plots. Contributors include distinguished scholars from all around the world, in all walks of academic life.

Subject

• Culture > Study and teaching
• Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : "The facts being fixed about the policy" / Ruben Valdes Miyares -- On the necessary conditions of possibility for a radical history / Keith Jenkins -- The historical imaginary and the politics of history / Hayden White -- On the plotting of a 21st-century history from an environmental perspective / Jonathan Coope -- Methodological remarks on the teaching of British history and culture at a Spanish university / Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo -- Killing (in) history : neo-Nazi propaganda and history as absent cause : a few thoughts from a hospital bed / David Walton -- History and visuals : some reflections on the transformation of the past for visual consumption / Michihiro Okamoto -- Historiographic novel : representations of WW2 and Holocaust in three Polish comics / Pawel Schreiber -- Visual rhetoric and the construction of heritage in museum exhibitions / Susan L.T. Ashley -- Memorialising the slave trade in Britain / Chris Weedon --^
• On history, cultural politics and the birth of the black subject (after Foucault with assistance from the artist Tom Feelings) / Glenn Jordan -- Historiographic metatheatre : the formulation of a genre / Alexander Feldman -- Reading history through the stories told in Restoration drama / Maria Jose Coperias Aguilar -- John Osborne's angry look back on the declining British empire / Maria Jose Alvarez Faedo -- Stoppardian drama : imagining history and historifying imagination / Zekiye Antakyahoglu -- What are we laughing at? : reading history into comedy : the case of Monty Python's Hell's grannies (1969) / Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy -- Manufacturing workers' traditions in socialist Eastern Central Europe : cultural history in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, 1972-1989 / Blanka Koffer -- From local to cosmopolitan nationalism : common sense in Scotland and Catalonia / Sara Martin Alegre --^
• Benevolent kings, warrior queens and student martyrs : the master plot and subplots of Thai history / Maurizio Peleggi -- The media and the plots of European identity / Jose Igor Prieto Arranz -- Nationalism and discourse in Puerto Rico : Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's fictions and new history / Eduardo San Jose Vazquez -- Questioning of historiography : Michel de Certeau and the fictions of history / Esther Sanchez-Pardo -- Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code : the power of a conspiracy master narrative / Sonia Baelo Allue -- A land out of history : Alasdair Gray's A history maker / Carla Rodriguez Gonzalez -- Ian McEwan's Atonement : revisiting history and rereading fiction / Eva Maria Perez Rodriguez -- Historical plots and cultural form : Adorno and the essay in the aftermath / Tania Roy.

ISBN

• 9781443800174 (hbk.)
• 1443800171 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2009396318

OCLC

• 269434963
• SCSB-11903188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library