The discursive nature of history has been exposed through multiple theoretical lenses, subjectivities, and socio-political positions that have expressed its polylogic dimensions. The post-structuralist turn of humanities with the advent of fields such as trauma and memory studies also brought to the fore the role and politics of remembering as a mode of narrating and understanding claims to history. Understood both as an individual and collective-social practice, history is dynamic and open to contestations. Understanding history is therefore an attempt to understand ongoing negotiations with a past that continues to linger beyond its assumed temporal limits. Often, this continues across generations especially when ideas of power and politics, justice and healing get inexplicably intertwined with remembering. This inheritance of a past calls forth a need to analyse the multigenerational character of individual and collective memory.
Themes:
● Transgenerational memory and history
● History and ‘counter’ history
● Modes and politics of remembering
● Literature and History
● Testimonial literature
● Trauma and memory
● Individual and collective trauma
● Remembering and forgetting
● Mass media
● Representation, language, and memory
● Material Memory
● Oral history
● History of emotions
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