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 minds 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.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1The Muses Speak as One
James Griffith
Part 1
Stories and Memories
2History, Narrative, and Trauma in Balkan Cinema
Sean Homer
3Narratives of Forced Displacement at the Gates of Europe
Félix Dķaz
4The Good Soldier in Haeks and Rebreanus Narratives of the First World
War
Charles Sabatos
5The Image of the Turk and Oriental Discourse in Panait Istratis Kyra
Kyralina and Ivo Andris the Bridge on the Drina
Haluk Talay
6History, Puya and Larei Lathup: On Rejecting the Myth of the Aryan Origin
of the Meitei Community in Indias Northeastern State of Manipur
Michael Samjetsabam
Part 2
Memories and Histories
7A Sense of Fatality: History, the Anthropocene, and the Apprehension of
Inadequacy
Alexandre Leskanich
8The View from the Gray Zone: Czechoslovak Underground Journals as
Testimonies of Alternative Historical Narratives
Lucie Hunter
9Remove or Remain? American Attitudes toward Confederate Memorials in the
Wake of 2020
Tyler Johnson
10Architectures of Racial Terror, the Spatiality of the History of Lynching,
and the Memorials of Jim Crows Amnesia
Alfred Frankowski
11Home and Homelessness
Jozef Majernķk
Index
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).
