A Lover’s Quarrel with the Past (EPUB) von Ranjan Ghosh

Acknowledgements

Foreword:Imagination and Fact: A Lovers Quarrel
Frank Ankersmit

The Quarrel Begins

Chapter 1. Romancing the Past: Presence and Intangibilities of History
Chapter 2. Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation: History and Memory
Chapter 3. Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historians Ethics and the Ethics of Historical Reading

Afterword:The Quarrel Continues...
Mark BevirandRanjan Ghosh

Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index

Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the non-historian as an able interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive linguistic turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history.

Ranjan Ghoshteaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He is widely published in leading international journals such asOxford Literary Review, History and Theory, Parallax, Rethinking History, Comparatist, Comparative Drama, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, Angelaki,and others. He is author/editor of many books, includingGlobalizing Dissent(Routledge, 2008),Edward Said and The Literary, Social, and Political World(Routledge, 2009),Making Sense of the Secular(Routledge, 2012). His website is:ranjanghosh.com.