Literature in the Ashes of History, Paperback by Caruth, Cathy, ISBN 1421411555, ISBN-13 9781421411552, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKCaruth analyzes the writings of Honoré de Balzac, Hannah Arendt, Ariel Dorfman, Wilhelm Jensen, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida to consider the question of what it means for history to disappear. She examines concepts of personal and collective history in the face of war in Beyond the Pleasure Principle; the story of a survivor trying to come back to life in Colonel Chabert, in the context of the emergence and disappearance of revolutionary history in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars; how political history eliminates the possibility of its own remembrance, detailed in "Truth and Politics" and "Lying in Politics"; the story of a disappeared person in Death and the Maiden who returns to claim justice after the end of a dictatorial regime; and how Freud and Derrida analyzed Jensen's Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fantasy for ideas of individual memory and collective historical destiny. Earlier versions of some chapters were previously published in journals and a monograph. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()