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Guilted Age
Ashraf A. H. Rushdy
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Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHB; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Public apologies have become increasingly common scenes and representative moments in what appears to be a global process of forgiveness. The apology-forgiveness dynamic is familiar to all of us, but what do these rituals of atonement mean when they are applied to political and historical events? In his timely, topical, and incisive book A Guilted Age, Ashraf Rushdy argues that the proliferation of apologies by politicians, nations, and churches for past events-such as American slavery or the Holocaust-can be understood as a historical phenomenon. In our post-World War II world, Rushdy claims that we live in a "guilted age." A ... Read more
Public apologies have become increasingly common scenes and representative moments in what appears to be a global process of forgiveness. The apology-forgiveness dynamic is familiar to all of us, but what do these rituals of atonement mean when they are applied to political and historical events? In his timely, topical, and incisive book A Guilted Age, Ashraf Rushdy argues that the proliferation of apologies by politicians, nations, and churches for past events-such as American slavery or the Holocaust-can be understood as a historical phenomenon. In our post-World War II world, Rushdy claims that we live in a "guilted age." A ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439913222
SKU
V9781439913222
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About Ashraf A. H. Rushdy
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy is the Benjamin Waite Professor of African American Studies and English, and the Academic Secretary at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton, Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form, Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction, American Lynching, and The ... Read more
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