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Forgetting Futures|Petar Ramadanovic

Forgetting Futures : On Meaning, Trauma, and Identity

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Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present, remembering and forgetting. In the book Petar Ramadanovic presents an elegant critique of the most significant concepts of memory, from Plato to Nietzsche, as he challenges the prevalent, Aristotelain understanding of memory as mere repeated presentation of the past in the present.

Ramadanovic skillfully examines the power of traumatic memory in history. Through an analysis of Cathy Caruth and a ground breaking revisionist interpretation of Toni Morrison's Beloved he shows how the memory of the Holocaust and slavery has shaped American identity. This unique study of memory places trauma, identity, and race under the intellectual microscope resulting in a book of great use for literary and cultural studies scholars, and educated readers seeking to learn more about the relationship between history and memory.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780739102756
  • ISBN-10: 0739102753
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Publish Date: November 2001
  • Dimensions: 9.06 x 6.34 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
  • Page Count: 192

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