Authenticity - Reading, Remembering, Performing

List of contents

Introduction 1. Mediated immediacy: constructing authentic testimony in audio-visual media 2. Politics and technologies of authenticity: the Second World War at the close of living memory 3. Doing pasts: authenticity from the reenactors’ perspective 4. ‘Part of the project of that book was not to be authentic’: neo-historical authenticity and its anachronisms in contemporary historical fiction 5. ‘I am two distinct beings’: Paul de Man’s authenticating project 6. The guilt of the past: medievalist closures and disclosures 7. Negotiating accuracy and authenticity in an Aboriginal King Lear 8. Dead history, live art: encountering the past with Stuart Brisley 9. Telling stories: performing authenticity in the confessional art of Tracey Emin

About the author

Patrick Finney works in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has research interests in collective memory, especially in relation to the Second World War, and international history, with particular reference to the inter-war years and historiographical issues. He is the UK editor of Rethinking History.

Summary

This is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection interrogating the contemporary cultural politics of authenticity, with case studies ranging from collective memory of the Second World War, through the historical fiction of Sarah Waters to the confessional art of Tracey Emin.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Finney, Patrick (University of Aberystwyth Finney
• Assisted by: Patrick Finney (Editor), Patrick (University of Aberystwyth Finney (Editor), Finney Patrick (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138312401
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31240-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, COMPUTERS / Security / Viruses & Malware, Social and cultural history, COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography & Encryption, History: theory and methods, COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security