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Zombie history : lies about our past that refuse to die / Peter Charles Hoffer

データ種別 図書
出版者 Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
出版年 2020

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板橋B2 書庫洋書書架 : pbk 253/H81 0368361
9780472054527

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本文言語 英語
大きさ ix, 193 p. ; 23 cm
一般注記 Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-183) and index
Summary: "Fake history is not a harmless mistake of fact or interpretation. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; a mistake that discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake held despite a preponderance of evidence; a mistake that harms us. In the following pages, I liken fake history to the Zombies we see in mass media, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by turning real events and people into monstrous perversions of fact and interpretation. Its pervasiveness reveals that prejudice remains its chief appeal to those who believe it. Its effect is insidious, because we cannot or will not destroy these mischievous lies. Zombie history is almost impossible to kill. Some Zombie history was and is political. A genre of what Hannah Arendt called "organized lying" about the past. Its makers designed the Zombie to create a basis in the false past for particular discriminatory policies. Other history Zombies are cultural. They encapsulate and empower prejudice and stereotyping. Still oth
著者標目 *Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author
ISBN 9780472054527
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