Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The papers collected in this issue were originally presented at the XIV International Conference on Anglo-American Studies, titled Reclaiming/Renaming Histories, which took place at the Faculty of Philology, University of Montenegro, in June 2018.Our research discusses exploitation of history in the works of literature, art, and in culture in general, produced in the course of the Twentieth and Twenty-First century.Understanding the difficulty of separating literary text from interpretative practice, as well as of separating theory from moral and ideological inflows, the scholars gathered here do not only unavoidably read literature, art, and culture with a wide historical and social background, but also want to participate in the communication about the perpetuation of master narratives.In particular, they are giving voice in support to the marginalized, predominantly racialized, gendered, politicized, and essentialized, as well otherwise socially, economically, and psychologically excluded, in their effort to claim right of selfdetermination and their distinct stories of their past.As our primary focus is on how histories are being built and rebuilt, i.e. renamed and reclaimed, we understand that every historical narrative is, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot says in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (2015), "a particular bundle of silences" (27) due to the uneven distribution of power, between its subjects and its objects, present in the four crucial reciprocal moments of historical production: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance).( 26)Thus, while reading the Twentieth-and the Twenty-First century productions of literature, art, and culture, we discuss diverse discourses, such as political,
Source: Folia linguistica et litteraria
Institutions: University of Montenegro, University of Split
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2955025529