Contemporary scholarship recognises that narratives are more than mere vessels for recounting past events: they are active agents in the construction of historical meaning. Narrative theory, or ...

Alice begins with a blood-curdling scream. As the film comes into focus, the audience meets Alice (Keke Palmer), an enslaved woman on the run. Before her destination is revealed, the film pulls us ...

Nations do not forget by accident. Forgetting is organised — through silence, omission, selective commemoration, and the quiet erosion of inconvenient truths. The Ikoyi Prison Narratives positions ...

If, as Oscar Wilde jested, “our only duty to history is to rewrite it,” this is certainly the time to radically rethink the narrative of this country’s collective past. Far from a collection of ...

Indonesia’s plan to rewrite its official national history was initially met with positive responses, particularly for its goal of better serving the younger generation. But the project to reshape the ...