Remember Me?

‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past,’ William Faulkner once wrote. Just beneath the surface of modern life lies the unreliability of memory, denial, rage and the assertion of equivalence. Who suffered more under the English, descendants of the enslaved or the child labourers in Victorian factories? In repairing the breach between colonisers and the colonised, is it reasonable to criticise liberal flak catchers?

WritersMosaic and Colin Grant bring writers together to debate how, considering the flaws and biases of memory, the past is rendered in fiction and non fiction. They also discuss how hierarchies of suffering emerge, and whether being descended from victims absolves you of responsibility when you start to behave like a perpetrator?