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Cultural Studies Review

History Experiments

Vol. 14, No. 1

John Frow and Katrina Schlunke (eds)

Thinking and writing about the past, challenging what 'history' might be and how it could appear is an ongoing interest of this journal and an ongoing (sometimes contentious) point of connection between cultural studies and history.

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Thinking and writing about the past, challenging what 'history' might be and how it could appear is an ongoing interest of this journal and an ongoing (sometimes contentious) point of connection between cultural studies and history.

The shifts in how we research and write the past is no simple story of accepted breakthroughs that have become the new norms, nor is it a story where it is easy to identify what the effects of cultural studies thinking on the discipline of history has been. History has provided its own challenges to its own practices in a very robust way, while the cultural studies has challenged what the past is and how it might be rendered from a wide ranging set of ideas and modes of representation that have less to do with specific disciplinary arguments than responses to particular modes (textual, filmic, sonic), particular sites (nations, Indigenous temporalities, sexuality, literature, gender) and perhaps a greater willingness to accentuate the political in the historical.

Table of Contents

Editorial-JOHN FROW AND KATRINA SCHLUNKE
Essays:
Introduction: 'A Fragmented Stew of "Themes" and "Issues"'-TARA FORREST
But Is It History?-KLAUS NEUMANN
A Touching and Contagious Captain Cook: Thinking History through Things-STEPHEN MUECKE
Captain Cook Chased a Chook-KATRINA SCHLUNKE
Historical Fiction and the Allegorical Truth of Colonial Violence in The Proposition-FELICITY COLLINS
The Pitfalls of Picturing Atlantic Slavery: Steven Spielberg's Amistad vs Guy Deslauriers's The Middle Passage-LARS ECKSTEIN
Experience - Information - Image: A Historiography of Unfolding. Arab Cinema as Example-LAURA U. MARKS
Letters from Beirut-LAURA U. MARKS
The Presence of Palestinian Absence in Narrating the Zionist Nation into Being-ANNIE PFINGST
The Challenge of Film Considered as Historical Research-OLAF BERG
'Good Building': Bertolt Brecht's Utopian Historical Optimism at the End of World War II-GERHARD FISCHER
'There Was Nothing to Say and Nobody Said It': Silence, Disconnection and Interruptions of Gertrude Stein's Writing Voice during World War II-RUTH WALKER
Resurrecting Absence: Susan Howe's A Bibliography of the King's Book Or, Eikon Basilike and the Historically Unspoken-JESSICA WILKINSON
Palpable History-ROSS GIBSON
Participating in the Past: Recording Lives in Digital Environments-PAUL LONGLEY ARTHUR

Reviews:
CRISTYN DAVIES: Melissa Gregg, Cultural Studies' Affective Voices
FRANCES BONNER: Su Holmes and Sean Redmond (eds), Framing Celebrity
MEREDITH JONES: Alan Petersen, The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach
FELICITY COLMAN: Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister (eds), Locating Memory: Photographic Acts
CHARLES MCPHEDRAN: Gary Hall and Clare Birchell (eds), New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory

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