Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Preface
 

Introduction: One or many pasts?

Celine and Julie go Boating; Embrace of the Serpent

PART I

Decolonising entrances to the past

1 History/Ethics: Interpreting stories from world history (Enrique Dussel)

2 Ethics/History: Hesitating in encountering lost pasts (Gilles Deleuze)

PART II

Encounters with the past that is/is not preserved

3 4.54(TO 13.7) billion Years: Planetary history, the natural contract, encountering earthly pasts

Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives; Nostalgia for the Light

4 500Years: The North Atlantic trade circuit, the racial contract, encountering others’ pasts

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman; Even the Rain

PART III

Encounters with the present that passes

5 70Years: The Cold War, the social contract, encountering political pasts

The Act of Killing; At the Foot of the White Tree

6 45Years: Neoliberal globalisation, the personal contract, encountering bodily pasts

Carancho; Lady Vengeance

    Conclusion: One or many faces of the (lost) past?

Alone in Berlin; Another Story of the World
 

Select bibliography

Index