The Valse animated long film with Bachir (86 ', 2008) by Israeli director Ari Folman is a semi-biographical narrative that reproduces an individual experience of the Lebanon war and the massacre of Sabra and Chatila. In its registration between documentary and fiction, Valse with Bachir sees a proce...

The thesis focuses on the way in which the literary representation of time and memory (i.e. the relationship between time and narrative) is used in the production of extensive storytelling, Giovanna Zangrande. The fee for the works examined includes, in particular, the novels I Brusaz (1954) and Ors...

The book Sport, Corps and Societies of Mass, the project of a new man, makes available to the general public and researchers, the communications presented at the International Colloquium organised by the Shoah Memorial and the Science Po History Centre in November 2011. The aim was to look at two as...

The purpose of this memory is to look at the novels Le Monarque des shadow (2017) by Javier Cercas and The Lost (2006) of Daniel Mendelsohn to see how their authors produce knowledge about history, family memory and collective memory. Both authors write on their granduncles: the Grand oncle of Cerca...

Claude Simon’s writing has often been associated with the limits, or even impossibility, of any return to historical reality through language. The novel Les Georgiiques (1981), drawn from archives legated by a Conventional ancest, does not set out any conclusions on the French Revolution. At most, s...

This article is intended, on the one hand, to make it easier for the creative political elites of Suriname to use the history of the chestnut groups to strengthen the construction of a national feeling and historical consciousness. On the other hand, he depicts how the political discourse of the ant...

It is not interesting to think about the reception that a historian can reserve for a novel and for the reading that a writer can make of a book of historian, without any time limitation. Such a writer may be called upon to report on his reading of Hérodote, Cassius Dion, Marc Bloch... and a histori...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebIn a generic way, we have called ‘memory entrepreneurs’ the individuals who aim to change the ‘collective memory’ of a social entity such as a nation. Starting from the case of the memory of the Vietnam war in the United States, we have tried to show that this company of constr...

The narrators of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides (1991) and Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence (2008) spend their time obsessively gathering, curating and categorising objects associated with the objects of their affection. Talking about his novel, Pamuk argued that “the desire to gather o...

This article aims to study the discursive and material uses of colonial history and the role of colony memory in Casamançaise independent narration (southern Senegal region). This memory is therefore not a mere image of the past, but an ongoing reflection on the past. It is a question of going beyon...

International audience The emergence of the notion of cultural heritage is recent in Turkey and still delicate, linked to a particular understanding of the past and of “national history”. From the creation of the Republic of Turkey onwards, the Byzantine past of Anatolia territory has been hidden un...

The contribution proposes a reflection on the literary and artistic representation of the Shoah and its contribution to knowledge and memory. On the basis of the study of several contemporary graphics novel, the issue of the transmission of the Shoah to the younger generations and the role that medi...

Following Nunatsiavut land claims on the Northeast Atlantic coast in Canada, Memorial University and the Nunatsiavut Government partnered to offer a community-based, Inuit-specific Bachelor of Education (IBED). This program was developed to lay a foundation for Inuit-governed schools. In the context...

The aim of the paper is to discuss the role of literary output of William Shakespeare in post‑memorial discourse about Holocaust. It analyzes various culture texts (film and theater adaptations, memoirs, essays and short stories) devoted to Holocaust, which refer to the dramatic heritage of English...

The paper shows the development of a myth about Torockó in the literary works (fiction and scientific literature as well). The analysis follows the myth from its foundation in the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. Finally, the paper analyses the symbolic language of monument space...

The experience of the sensitive meeting with the artistic piece attracts in our spirit what the artist has seen from his own stumbling. José Lezama Lima takes the pluma as if it were a pincel and traces in the canvas of his Paradiso work a narrative poetic that encourages our sensitivity and conveys...

This article explores a number of contemporary audiovisual practices that review a visual legacy of 68 Mexican on the basis of a recent curatorial proposal to reuse the filemic materials of the time, hence 68... (Ambant Festival, 2018). This revision is based on the intersection of three different g...

The article consists of three parts. In the first, I draw a number of parallels between Ponciá Vicencio in Conceição Evaristo, in front of other Brazilian blackmakers novels, signalling the contiguity of a scattered, yet communicating, set of works that cross the Roman gênerum and by black women — s...

Maironi Lithuanian Literary Museum in Rotušė a. 13, LT-44279 Kaunas, Lithuania E-mail: jurate.ivanauskiene@maironiomuziejus.ltMaironio The Lithuanian Literary Museum contains 5482 books from his Memorial Library at the Bernardo Brarazdiny collection. Most of them are Lithuanian-language books such a...

The article analyzes the process of cultivating images of politicians of the past and determines its specifics as well as factors influencing the formation of the images. It concludes that the image of a politician of the past is formed mainly within the general framework of political image making....

<p>Since the Vietnam War, storytelling has emerged as a viable intervention for war veterans seeking treatment for PTSD, depression, and other adjustment issues. To procure its benefits, however, storytelling must happen in a safe environment with trusted listeners. This article considers a yet-unex...

This article studies the audiovisual representation of the Partido Comunista de España (PCE: Spanish Communist Party), presenting it as a historiographical practice that has proposed various signification logics in the past. First, the article reviews aspects related to the relation between televisi...

The article is based on research that seeks to verify the role of Information Design in the Digital Curation of Museu da Pessoa in Web 2.0, and the objective is to reflect on its museological fact, life stories. In times of extended custody, Museu da Pessoa stands out as a dynamic, interactive and c...

Antonina Anistratenko, Antoniy Moysey. Functioning of basic mythologemes in national rituals and their transformation in the modern Ukrainian drama. While historical knowledge moving forward and raised in the community to unprecedented level of accuracy, it is steeped in taboos, politically mot...

The neo-historical novel – literary genre which combines the use of documents, testimony and fiction – offers an ideal case study of what Francesco Orlando, in the early Seventies, called the "formal return of the repressed". Proof of this is the emergence, within the texts, of memorial waste which...