(RE)VISIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE POSTHISTORICIST PARADIGM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18372/2520-6818.35.11732Keywords:
identity, memory, posthistoricism, African American literature, melancholic historyAbstract
With this article, the author closely analyzes recent turns in literary studies, specifically in African American Studies. Drawing on insights of Walter Benn Michaels, it is argued that in the posthistorist paradigm — when the ideological disagreement is replaced by the identitarian difference — the main emphasis has shifted from history as a fact, a cause, or knowledge into notions of memory and re!memory as crucial for posthistoricist ideas of identity formation. In this context, the historical past is transformed into the remembered pastReferences
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