Prompt: In Ways of Seeing, John Berger writes, “A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or class than one that has been able to situate itself in history. This is why – and this is the only reason why – the entire art of the past has now become a political issue” (33). Consider the ways in which certain people or groups are “cut off from [their] own past” in the work(s) you have chosen. Who or what is it that cuts them off from that past? What means do they use to cut others off from their past? To what extent do those cut off attempt to recover or rewrite that past? How do they use the recovered or rewritten past for political purposes? What is the relation between the past in general and politics? What does this suggest about the politics of historical narrative(s)?
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