HSY4210

Life stories: memory, narrative and history

(ART)

Bain Attwood and Esther Faye

12 points + 2-hour seminar per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis: This subject introduces the major theoretical and conceptual frameworks deployed in the analysis of memory and life narratives, especially in the practices of oral history, collective biography and /memory narratives0 and the relationships between /history0 and memory as forms of remembering. Specific fields to be investigated include memory and the Holocaust; /popular0 and /official0 memory; history and /nostalgia0; Aboriginal oral histories; and relationships between psychoanalysis, autobiography and history.

Assessment: Research essay (4000 words): 40% + Historiographical essay (3000 words): 30% + Take-home examination (2 hours): 30%