Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Historical Fiction

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Ask why some of the best recent works of contemporary historical fiction has been obsessed with remembering, distorting, clarifying, appropriating and forgetting the distant and recent past. Explore what contemporary historical fiction has to show us about our own moment in history. Consider how contemporary historical fiction is not only about history but also invites us to think with it about the ethics of what we remember and what we don’t.