In this research,I focus on two specific instances where the vanquished wrote their version of history to influence how nations should understand their past and their sense of national identity....Show moreIn this research,I focus on two specific instances where the vanquished wrote their version of history to influence how nations should understand their past and their sense of national identity. Specifically, I am proposing a comparative analysis, using Discourse Analysis (DA), of how history can be rewritten by the vanquished, to variant degrees of effectiveness and in very comparable manner, by societies that differs from each other both historically and geographically. I do so by analysing a selected number of works from those authors most relevant for the propagation of the counternarratives that constitute those Lost Cause myths and that in various forms were able to politically endure and even thrive in the post-conflict reality governed by very victors they seemed to despise and distrust.Show less
