Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question (ePub)
Who Owns The Past?
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of...
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In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called for?For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: history cannot do the work of myth. Clendinnen illuminates the ways in which history, myth and fiction differ from one another, and why the differences are important. In discussing what good history looks like, she pays tribute to the human need for story telling but notes the distinctive critical role of the historian. She offers a spirited critique of Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River, and discusses the Stolen Generations and the role of morality in history writing. This is an eloquent and stimulating essay about a subject that has generated much heat in recent times: how we should record and regard the nation's past."Who owns the past? In a free society, everyone. It is a magic pudding belonging to anyone who wants to cut themselves a slice, from legend manufacturers through novelists looking for ready-made plots, to interest groups out to extend their influence." —Inga Clendinnen, The History Question
Autoren-Porträt von Inga Clendinnen
Inga Clendinnen is a writer and historian whose studies of Aztec and Mayan cultures have been published to widespread international acclaim. In 1999, her book, Reading the Holocaust, was named best book of the year by the New York Times and won the NSW premier's general history award. Clendinnen's Boyer Lectures were published as True Stories in 2000, as was her award-winning memoir, Tiger's Eye. In 2006, she was awarded an officer in the Order of Australia for her services as a writer and historian.
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- Autor: Inga Clendinnen
- 2006, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1921825227
- ISBN-13: 9781921825224
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2006
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