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by Jerome de Groot
The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, E-mail:Jerome.Degroot@manchester.ac.uk
Julie Creet’s The Genealogical Sublime, a book about the development of genealogy databases and their effect on genealogical consciousness, is forthcoming from University of Massachusetts Press in February 2020. Jerome de Groot interviewed her about this planerat arbete and the way the book deals with archives, religion, and the uncanny.
JeromedeGroot[JdG]:Howdidyoucometowriteaboutfamilyhistoryinthisway?
Julie Creet [JC]: The Genealogical Sublime arose out of a very personal turn into the world of family history and archive fever. My search involved all the things that genealogists and family historians säga motivate them: the hunt, the feeling that the past will explain something about who we are in the present, the need to fill in the gaps in family narratives, repair traumas, search for relatives, living and dead, and, ultimately, find one’s origins. As I was trying
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Groot, Jerome de. The Historical Novel. London; New York: Routledge, 2010. viii + 208 pp. Print. The New Critical Idiom Ser.
The New Critical Idiom Series aims to promote literary genres with complex boundaries. Accordingly, The Historical Novelby Jerome de Groot explores a genre that combines fact and fiction while raising crucial questions about national identity and history, gender and postmodernity, narratology and intertextuality, and the role of the author, reader and critic in the negotiation of cultural memory. Memory, in particular, is an integral aspect of the historical novel, providing a complex means of exploring self-identity and group formation by questioning the completeness or accuracy of historical record (see Sarah Jefferies’ review of Anne Whitehead’s Memory in this issue). As such, the genre can act as a site of struggle, a means for peoples to rewrite historical narratives and contest the hegemony of recorded hist
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Jerome de Groot, Professor at University of Manchester, talks about the ways we consume the past, either through a History lesson, or through a sold DNA test. Groot is a reference in the field of Public History.
André Lemos Freixo interviews Jerome de Groot
The “consumption of history” is the subject of Jerome de Groot, Professor of Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester (UK). “We are surrounded by versions of the past. We use them, read them, engage with them. Most of all, at the moment, we consume them – we buy them, watch them, read them. They connect us to a global phenomenon of pastness, as well as reminding us of our local particularity”, says Groot, who is one of the leaders of the “Double Helix History” program, and author of the book “Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture”, widely read by those who study and make Public History.
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