Forensic Memory - Literature after Testimony

This book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and 'archaeological' digging. How does forensic literature narrate the past in terms of plot, language, narration, and use of visual media? This volume examines how forensic literature provides an important corrective to the forensic paradigm and a means of exploring the relationship between visual and material evidence and various forms of testimony. This literary engagement with the past is investigated in order to challenge a forensic paradigm that aims to eliminate the problems related to human testimony through scientific objectivity, resulting in a fresh and original text in which Bøndergaard argues literature's potential to explore the mechanisms of representation, interpretation, and narration.

List of contents

1. Introduction. - 2. After Testimony.- 3. Forensic Traces.- 4. Forensic Narration.- 5. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2018
• EAN: 9783319847351
• ISBN: 978-3-31-984735-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 334 g
• Illustrations: VII, 242 p.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Historiography, Memory Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Culture—Study and teaching