On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul, Yosra Amraoui

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Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.

Texts act like receptacles for an ever-present remembered past, or what the French philosopher Paul Ricœur calls “the present representation of an absent thing”. They…

Texts act like receptacles for an ever-present remembered past, or what the French philosopher Paul Ricœur calls “the present representation of an absent thing”. They might embody an efficient remedy to forgetting but could also become a vivid testimony for exorcised traumas. This volume focuses on Ricœur’s phenomenology of memory, epistemology of history, and hermeneutics of forgetting. A special emphasis is laid on the dissension between individual and collective institutional memory.

Bootheina Majoul is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis at the University of Carthage, Tunisia. She holds an MA in Cross Cultural Poetics from the University of Carthage, and a PhD in English Language and Literature/Letters from the University of Manouba, Tunisia. She is a member of the scientific committee of the research laboratory “Language and Cultural Forms”. She has published two books and several academic articles and poetry collections. She is also the editor of two volumes, including her most recent publication, Terrorism in Literature: Examining a Global Phenomenon (2019).

Yosra Amraoui is an Associate Professor of English Language, Literature and Civilization at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis at the University of Carthage, Tunisia. She holds a PhD in Culture Studies, and her areas of research revolve around historiography, media studies, and testimonial narratives. She has published a number of articles in the fields of identity, historiography, and testimonial narratives.