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Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature
Engelsk Hardback

Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature

Engelsk Hardback

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This book discusses how American literary modernism and postmodernism interconnect memory and identity and if, and how, the intertwining of memory and identity has been related to the dominant socio-cultural trends in the United States or the specific historical contexts in the world. The book''s opening chapter is the interrogation of the narrator''s memories of Jay Gatsby and his life in F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby. The second chapter shows how in William Faulkner''s Light in August memory impacts the search for identities in the storylines of the characters. The third chapter discusses the correlation between memory, self, and culture in Tennessee Williams''s A Streetcar Named Desire. Discussing Robert Coover''s Gerald''s Party, the fourth chapter reveals that memory and identity are contextualized and that cognitive processes, including memory, are grounded in the body''s interaction with the environment, featuring dehumanized characters, whose identities appear as role-plays. The subsequent chapter is the analysis of how Jonathan Safran Foer''s Everything Is Illuminated deals with the heritage of Holocaust memories and postmemories. The last chapter focuses on Thomas Pynchon''s Against the Day, the reconstructive nature of memory, and the politics and production of identity in Southeastern Europe. 

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
197
ISBN-13:
9789811950247
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9811950245
Udg. Dato:
17 sep 2022
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Oplagsdato:
17 sep 2022
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