Literature, memory and politics: the construction of the past in the Egyptian Middle Kingdom
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Abstract
The first literary Ancient Egyptian texts appear in the Middle Kingdom, and, because of their fictional character, they differentiate from other narratives such as autobiographies, religious or educational texts. In the literary texts created between the 12th and the 13th dynasties the outstanding narrative topic is the fictionalized past. Within them, the fictionalized past is a recorded past, and therefore a collective, social and cultural memory is constructed. Our proposal is to identify the mechanisms by which the memory in this type of narrative is constructed, and how it is expressed literarily. We have concentrated especially on the last two stories of Westcar Papyrus, where narrative and fictional times are peculiarly and singularly interwoven with historical time, creating a specific type of memory: the future memory.
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