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May 03, 2024
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HISG 839 - History and Memory in Modern Western Society3 credits
This seminar explores the burgeoning historical field of memory studies, with a focus on both the substantive and theoretical issues raised in the literature. What is collective memory? Are history and memory separate entities? Does memory offer a fix to the historiographical Gordian Knot, or is the fix an illusion? Does memory provide subaltern groups the means to resist mainstream historical narrative? And what ideological purposes does collective memory serve in mainstream culture? Topics to be covered include the American Revolutionary Era, the American Civil War, Modern France, the Holocaust and Postwar Germany, with readings by Halbwachs, Nora, Yerushalmi, Schudson, Bodnar, and more.
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