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Alternate History – Alternate Memory: Counterfactual Literature in the Context of German Normalization
ALTERNATE HISTORY – ALTERNATE MEMORY: COUNTERFACTUAL LITERATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF GERMAN NORMALIZATION by GUIDO SCHENKEL M.A., Freie Universität Berlin, 2006 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (German Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2012 © Guido Schenkel, 2012 ABSTRACT This dissertation examines a variety of Alternate Histories of the Third Reich from the perspective of memory theory. The term ‘Alternate History’ describes a genre of literature that presents fictional accounts of historical developments which deviate from the known course of hi story. These allohistorical narratives are inherently presentist, meaning that their central question of “What If?” can harness the repertoire of collective memory in order to act as both a reflection of and a commentary on contemporary social and political conditions. Moreover, Alternate Histories can act as a form of counter-memory insofar as the counterfactual mode can be used to highlight marginalized historical events. This study investigates a specific manifestation of this process. Contrasted with American and British examples, the primary focus is the analysis of the discursive functions of German-language counterfactual literature in the context of German normalization. The category of normalization connects a variety of commemorative trends in postwar Germany aimed at overcoming the legacy of National Socialism and re-formulating a positive German national identity. The central hypothesis is that Alternate Histories can perform a unique task in this particular discursive setting. In the context of German normalization, counterfactual stories of the history of the Third Reich are capable of functioning as alternate memories, meaning that they effectively replace the memory of real events with fantasies that are better suited to serve as exculpatory narratives for the German collective. -
Cyclopaedia 15 – Alternate History Overview
Cyclopaedia 15 – Alternate History By T.R. Knight (InnRoads Ministries * Article Series) Overview dimensions, or technological changes to explore these historical changes. Steampunk, Alternate History brings up many thoughts dieselpunk, and time/dimensional travel and feelings. To historical purists, this genre stories are good examples of this subcategory of fiction can look like historical revisionism. of Alternate History. Alternate History rides a Speculative fiction fans view these as “What fine line between Historical Fiction and If” scenarios that challenge us to think Science Fiction at this point. outside historical norms to how the world could be different today. Within the science Whatever type of Alternate History you fiction genre, alternate history can take on enjoy, each challenges your preconceived many sub-genres such as time travel, understandings and feelings for a time period alternate timelines, steampunk, and in history, perhaps offering you new dieselpunk. All agree that Alternate History perspectives on the people and events speculates to altered outcomes of key events involved. in history. These minor or major alterations Most common types of have ripple effects, creating different social, political, cultural, and/or scientific levels in Alternate History? the world. Alternate History has so many sub-genres Alternate History takes some queues from associated with it. Each one has its own Science Fiction as a genre. Just like Science unique alteration of history, many of which Fiction, Alternate History can be organized are considered genres or themes unto into two sub-categories that are “Hard” and themselves. “Soft” like Science Fiction. 80s Cold War invasion of United “Hard” Alternate History could be viewed as States stories and themes that stay as true to actual Axis victory in World War II history as possible with just one or two single Confederate victory in American changes that change the outcome, such as Civil War the Confederate Army winning the Civil War Dieselpunk or the Axis winning World War 2. -
The Death of Genre: Why the Best YA Fiction Often Defies Classification
LoriScot Goodson Smith & Jim Blasingame The Death of Genre: Why the Best YA Fiction Often Defies Classification few years ago, I received a phone call from a adding a list called genre-busters, novels which do not desperate sixth grade reading teacher. “Help!” easily fit into a single category. The more I think about Ashe cried, “I have a literary mutiny on my my YA favorite titles of the past few years, the more hands. I need your help now!!” I immediately raced bewildered I become. Zusak’s The Book Thief— upstairs. historical fiction or fantasy? Anderson’s The Astonish- Our sixth graders read Louis Sachar’s Holes as a ing Life of Octavian Nothing—historical fiction or required novel. The teacher uses Holes as part of her science fiction? Rosoff’s How I Live Now?—realistic unit on fantasy. In a time where many middle fiction or science fiction? Shusterman’s The Schwa schoolers are steeped in Harry Potter and Paolini, Was Here—realistic fiction or fantasy? I have come to Holes just did not seem to fit into that the same the realization that genre might be dead, that many of category of fantasy. recently published YA novels no longer fit into the “Mr. Smith,” they argued, “It can’t be fantasy. It’s predictable categories we typically designate for too real.” books. Is it time to despair? I think not. Rather, let us What followed was a long discussion about the celebrate the innovative fashion in which today’s YA different types of fantasy. We debated over the effects authors are bending the traditional definitions of of rattlesnake nail polish, the existence of yellow genre. -
Afrindian Fictions
Afrindian Fictions Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa Pallavi Rastogi T H E O H I O S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E ss C O L U MB us Copyright © 2008 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rastogi, Pallavi. Afrindian fictions : diaspora, race, and national desire in South Africa / Pallavi Rastogi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-0319-4 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8142-0319-1 (alk. paper) 1. South African fiction (English)—21st century—History and criticism. 2. South African fiction (English)—20th century—History and criticism. 3. South African fic- tion (English)—East Indian authors—History and criticism. 4. East Indians—Foreign countries—Intellectual life. 5. East Indian diaspora in literature. 6. Identity (Psychol- ogy) in literature. 7. Group identity in literature. I. Title. PR9358.2.I54R37 2008 823'.91409352991411—dc22 2008006183 This book is available in the following editions: Cloth (ISBN 978–08142–0319–4) CD-ROM (ISBN 978–08142–9099–6) Cover design by Laurence J. Nozik Typeset in Adobe Fairfield by Juliet Williams Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the Ameri- can National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments v Introduction Are Indians Africans Too, or: When Does a Subcontinental Become a Citizen? 1 Chapter 1 Indians in Short: Collectivity -
The Angel of Ferrara
The Angel of Ferrara Benjamin Woolley Goldsmith’s College, University of London Submitted for the degree of PhD I declare that the work presented in this thesis is my own Benjamin Woolley Date: 1st October, 2014 Abstract This thesis comprises two parts: an extract of The Angel of Ferrara, a historical novel, and a critical component entitled What is history doing in Fiction? The novel is set in Ferrara in February, 1579, an Italian city at the height of its powers but deep in debt. Amid the aristocratic pomp and popular festivities surrounding the duke’s wedding to his third wife, the secret child of the city’s most celebrated singer goes missing. A street-smart debt collector and lovelorn bureaucrat are drawn into her increasingly desperate attempts to find her son, their efforts uncovering the brutal instruments of ostentation and domination that gave rise to what we now know as the Renaissance. In the critical component, I draw on the experience of writing The Angel of Ferrara and nonfiction works to explore the relationship between history and fiction. Beginning with a survey of the development of historical fiction since the inception of the genre’s modern form with the Walter Scott’s Waverley, I analyse the various paratextual interventions—prefaces, authors’ notes, acknowledgements—authors have used to explore and explain the use of factual research in their works. I draw on this to reflect in more detail at how research shaped the writing of the Angel of Ferrara and other recent historical novels, in particular Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. -
Young Adult Historical Fiction Book List
Young Adult Historical Fiction Book List Denotes new titles recently added to the list GREEK MYTHOLOGY is doomed to become a werewolf. In this climate of hysteria, the boys’ father is charged Galloway, Priscilla with heresy for covertly reading the Bible. The Courtesan’s Daughter From humble beginnings, Cushman, Karen Phano rises to become one of Alchemy and Meggy Swann ancient Athens’ most powerful Meggy Swann, a girl who walks citizens through her marriage with the aid of two sticks, to Theo, but they both have powerful enemies arrives in Elizabethan London, who don’t share their political views. (2002) along with her goose Louise, to stay with her father who really does not want ICE AGES her, and while he pursues his dream of transforming base metal into gold, Meggy Gear, Kathleen and Michael undergoes a transformation herself. (Summary Children of the Dawnland from Follett Destiny, November 2010). Twelve-year-old Twig, a Spirit Dreamer who can see into the Grant, K.M. Green Jasper future, teams up with best friend Having returned to a politically Greyhawk and the unpopular unstable England after the shaman Screech Owl to warn villagers of an Crusades, brothers Will and impending natural disaster. (Summary from Gavin--with the help of the Follett Destiny, October 2009). red horse Hosanna--attempt to rescue their friend Ellie who is being held MIDDLE AGES prisoner by an enemy of King Richard I. (Summary from Mackin.com 2006) Banks, Lynne Reid The Dungeon Hoffman, Alice Driven by grief over the loss of Incantation his family and by his longing During the Spanish Inquisition, for adventure, Bruce sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought MacLennan sets out from up a Catholic, discovers her Scotland for China, where he family's true Jewish identity, and buys a yohoung girl, who tries when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best to ease his pain but instead is caught up in his friend, the consequences are tragic. -
Historical Fiction a Guide to the Genre
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How to Write History: Thucydides and Herodotus in the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
How to write history: Thucydides and Herodotus in the ancient rhetorical tradition A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Scott Kennedy, B.A., B.S. Graduate Program in Greek and Latin The Ohio State University 2018 Dissertation Committee: Anthony Kaldellis, Adviser Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Will Batstone Copyright by Scott Kennedy 2018 Abstract Modern students of Thucydides and Herodotus may find it odd to think of them as rhetoricians. Yet in the ancient world, both historians (and especially Thucydides) played an important role in rhetorical schools. They were among the favorite authors of ancient teachers of rhetoric and served as foundational pillars of the ancient curriculum, providing themes for school exercises and even for such seminal texts as Hermogenes' theoretical treatises on rhetoric. Modern scholars might never read technical rhetorical texts such as Hermogenes. They almost certainly would never turn to Hermogenes and his kind to help them understand Thucydides or Herodotus. But for our ancient intellectual predecessors, such an approach would have been unconscionable, as ancient rhetoric was the theoretical lens with which they understood and appreciated historical writings. In this dissertation, I explore the confluence of rhetoric and historiography in the ancient world through an examination of how Herodotus and Thucydides were used in ancient schools and then by later historians. Chapter 1 and 2 outline how these historians were embedded and encoded within the rhetorical curriculum. In Chapter 1, I examine how Herodotus and Thucydides entered the rhetorical curriculum and how rhetors incorporated them into the rhetorical curriculum through an examination of the surviving progymnasmata, scholia, and pedagogical myths. -
Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain
English Faculty Publications English 2008 Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain Anne H. Stevens University of Nevada, Las Vegas, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/english_fac_articles Part of the European History Commons, Intellectual History Commons, and the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Repository Citation Stevens, A. H. (2008). Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth- Century Britain. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 37 217-232. https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/english_fac_articles/20 This Article is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Article in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Article has been accepted for inclusion in English Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Porging Literary History: Historica{ Piction ant£ Literary Porgery in lEieliteentli-Century CBritain ANNE H. STEVENS n his article "History's Greatest Forger: Science, Fiction, and Fraud I Along the Seine," historian of science Ken Alder purports to have discovered a letter in a French archive by Denis Vrain-Lucas, a notorious nineteenth-century forger who made a fortune selling letters he claimed to have discovered in a hitherto-unknown casque ofpapers by such luminaries as Galileo, Alexander the Great, and Mary Magdalene (all written in French!). -
Fables Agreed Uponï¼ıa Comparative Study of New Historicism and Alternate History
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art Volume 41 Number 1 Article 14 2021 Fables Agreed Upon:A Comparative Study of New Historicism and Alternate History Feng Li [email protected] Yitzhak Lewis [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal Part of the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, and the Cultural History Commons Recommended Citation Li Feng Yitzhak Lewis. Fables Agreed Upon: A Comparative Study of New Historicism and Alternate History. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2021, 42(1): 150-166. This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by Theoretical Studies in Literature and Arts. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art by an authorized editor of Theoretical Studies in Literature and Arts. Fables Agreed Upon: A Comparative Study of New Historicism and Alternate History Li Feng Yitzhak Lewis Abstract: New Historicism and alternate history raise similar questions regarding history and ideology. New Historicism reads every text as an alternate history narrative,while the narrative mode in alternate history can inspire a nuanced understanding of the critical positions promoted by New Historicism. The paper offers a comparative study of the two in terms of their conceptualizations of historical narrative,intertextuality,narrativity,non-linear structure and spatiality. It seeks to create dialogues between different voices in both the critical theory and the literary genre with respect to their -
The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel
What Almost Was 63 What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel Matthew Schneider-Mayerson Between August of 1995 and July of 1996, Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives Newt Gingrich published two books. One, To Renew America, a folksy Republican polemic cobbled together from Gingrich’s speeches, served as a sequel to Contract with America, the blueprint of the conservative movement that assumed control of Congress in 1995.1 The other was 1945, coauthored with William R. Forstchen, a novel set in an alternate universe.2 In 1945’s divergent timeline, Germany does not declare war on the United States, the Soviet Union is split into fragments, and the United States and Germany have settled into a cold war. Nazi soldiers parachute into the United States to a capture a nuclear facility in Tennessee, but posses of arms-bearing American veterans successfully defend their country. 1945 was representative of the flourishing genre of alternate history novels in all but two ways: an author’s celebrity and its media exposure. Due to Gingrich’s status as the public leader of the conservative renaissance of the mid-1990s, 1945 was widely reviewed in mainstream publications. Treated as a curiosity and ridiculed for its poor literary quality, very few reviewers noted the libertarian themes in 1945, and even fewer placed it in the context of an inchoate literary genre.3 1995 can be considered the birth year of the alternate history novel as a genre. As a conceptual category, the counterfactual, as historians term their what-if narratives, has been pursued in print since classical Greece, if not earlier. -
Alternate History Fiction and Steampunk
Alternate History Fiction and Steampunk (available on cassette and digital cartridge) Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own. Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. Authors: Harry Turtledove (Alternate History; Assorted) Gail Carriger (Steampunk; Victorian Era, Paranormal-Fantasy) Guy Gavriel Kay (Alternate History; Early Histories) China Mieville (Steampunk; Assorted) SERIES: Anderson, Taylor – Destroyermen Series (Alternate History; WWII Era, Ships Stumble into Alternate Reality Where Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct) Baker, Kage – The Company Series (Steampunk; Victorian Era) Belcher, R.S. – Golgotha Series (Steampunk; The Old West) Card, Orson Scott – Tales of the Alvin Maker (Alternate History; Natural Magic Exists, Aztecs Beat Cortez, Puritans Successfully Revolted in Britain) Cato, Beth – The Clockwork Dagger Duology (Steampunk; Airships) Christopher,