Información General

• Autores: Maria Jesus Martinez (ed. lit.), Silvia Pellicer Ortín (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año de publicación: 2017
• País: Suiza
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-3-319-87154-7, 9783319617589
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)

Reseñas

• Ha sido reseñado en:

  • Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature, edited by María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro and Silvia Pellicer-Ortín

    Julia Kuznetski

    Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 62, 2020, págs. 195-200

Resumen

• This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices. By focusing on contemporary narratives in English from 1990 to the present, the essays in the collection delve into both the treatment of memory in literature and the view of literature as a medium of memory, paying special attention to major controversies attending the representation and (re)construction of individual, cultural and collective memories in the literary narratives published during the last few decades. By analysing texts written by authors of such diverse origins as Great Britain, South-Korea, the USA, Cuba, Australia, India, as well as Native-American Indian and African-American writers, the contributors to the collection analyse a good range of memory frictions —in connection with melancholic mourning, immigration, diaspora, genocide, perpetrator guilt, dialogic witnessing, memorialisation practices, inherited traumatic memories, sexual abuse, prostitution, etc.— through the recourse to various disciplines —such as psychoanalysis, ethics, (bio)politics, space theories, postcolonial studies, narratology, gender studies—, resulting in a book that is expected to make a ground-breaking contribution to a field whose possibilities have yet to be fully explored.

Otros catálogos

• Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias (REBIUN)

Listado de artículos

• • Introduction: Memory Frictions—Conflict–Negotiation–Politics in Contemporary Literature in English

    María Jesús Martínez Alfaro, Silvia Pellicer Ortín

    págs. 1-17

    

  • Conclusion

    Robert Eaglestone

    págs. 277-282

    

  • Part I: Experimentation and Genre: Formal Memory Frictions

    • The Powers of Vulnerability: The Restorative Uses of Elegy

      Jean-Michel Ganteau

      págs. 21-40

      

    • Narrative Form, Memory Frictions and the Revelation of Traumatic Secrets in Toni Morrison’s Home

      Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 41-64

      

    • The Zigzag Trajectory Through Time of Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic

      Sandra Singer

      págs. 65-84

      

  • Part II: Collective Tensions and the Politics of Remembrance

    • Public Art and Communal Space: The Politics of Commemoration in Amy Waldman’s The Submission

      Paula Martín Salván

      págs. 87-104

      

    • A Korean “Apocryphal” Island, Once the Shore, by Paul Yoon

      Marc Amfreville

      págs. 105-120

      

    • False Memories, False Foods: Eating, Cooking, Remembering in Tastes like Cuba by Eduardo Machado

      María Nieves Pascual Soler

      págs. 121-139

      

  • Part III: The Haunting Presence of the Holocaust: Multidirectional, Transgenerational and Memorial Struggles

    • The Holocaust in the Eye of the Beholder: Memory in Carmel Bird’s The Bluebird Café

      Bárbara María Arizti Martín

      págs. 143-164

      

    • Lore, or the Implicated Witness: Rachel Seiffert’s Postmemory Work

      Susanne Baackmann

      págs. 165-186

      

    • “No Redress but Memory”: Holocaust Representation and Memorialization in E.L. Doctorow’s City of God

      María Ferrández San Miguel

      págs. 187-205

      

  • Part IV: Mapping Memories, Spatial F(r)ictions and Troubled Identities

    • Re-Mapping the Trauma Paradigm: The Politics of Native American Grief in Louise Erdrich’s “Shamengwa”

      Silvia Martínez Falquina

      págs. 209-230

      

    • Remembering the Way Back Home: The Role of Place in Wendy Law-Yone’s The Road to Wanting (2010)

      María Dolores Herrero Granado

      págs. 231-254

      

    • Negotiating Traumatic Memories in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House: White Man’s Law vs. Native Justice and Tradition

      Aitor Ibarrola Armendariz

      págs. 255-276