The Ethos of History

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University. He is the author of Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee (2004) and Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009), has edited volume four of Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective (2006), and is co-editor (with Pieter Vermeulen) of Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (2015).

Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Ethos of History

Stefan Helgesson and Jayne Svenungsson



Chapter 1. Towards a New Ethos of History

Aleida Assmann



Chapter 2. The Vampire, the Undead and the Anxieties of Historical Consciousness

Claudia Lindén and Hans Ruin



Chapter 3. History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible

Victoria Fareld



Chapter 4. Narrating Pasts for Peace? A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Initiatives of Historical Reconciliation through ‘Historical Dialogue’ and ‘Shared History’

Berber Bevernage



Chapter 5. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History

Joan W. Scott



Chapter 6. Does Time Have a Gender? Queer Temporality, Anachronism, and the Desire for the Past

Kristina Fjelkestam



Chapter 7. ‘The One Who Should Die Is the One Who Shall Live’: Prophetic Temporalities in Contemporary Colonial Brazil

Patricia Lorenzoni



Chapter 8. Radical Time in (Post)Colonial Narratives

Stefan Helgesson



Chapter 9. Engaged History

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback



Chapter 10. Speakers for the Dead: Digital Memory and the Construction of Identity

Alana M. Vincent



Chapter 11. History Begins in the Future: On Historical Sensibility in the Age of Technology

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon



Afterword

Hans Ruin



Index