CHAPTER 4 Narrating Pasts for Peace? A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Initiatives of Historical Reconciliation through ‘Historical Dialogue’ and ‘Shared History’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. INTRODUCTION Situating the Ethos of History 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Towards a New Ethos of History? 14
6. CHAPTER 2 The Vampire, the Undead and the Anxieties of Historical Consciousness 32
7. CHAPTER 3 History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible 54
8. CHAPTER 4 Narrating Pasts for Peace? A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Initiatives of Historical Reconciliation through ‘Historical Dialogue’ and ‘Shared History’ 70
9. CHAPTER 5 Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History 94
10. CHAPTER 6 Does Time Have a Gender? Queer Temporality, Anachronism and the Desire for the Past 112
11. CHAPTER 7 ‘The One Who Should Die Is the One Who Shall Live’ Prophetic Temporalities in Contemporary Colonial Brazil 126
12. CHAPTER 8 Radical Time in (Post)Colonial Narratives 144
13. CHAPTER 9 Engaged History 160
14. CHAPTER 10 Speakers for the Dead: Digital Memory and the Construction of Identity 175
15. CHAPTER 11 History Begins in the Future: On Historical Sensibility in the Age of Technology 192
16. Afterword 210
17. Index 214