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Title
Representations of forgetting in life writing and fiction / Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir.
ISBN
9781137598646 (electronic book)
1137598646 (electronic book)
1137598638
9781137598639
9781137598639
Published
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1057/978-1-137-59864-6. doi
Call Number
PN56.M44 G83 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.93353
Summary
This book primarily focuses on the concept of forgetting, with particular emphasis on how we can trace the forgotten in contemporary life writing and memory texts. It consists of two main parts: the first concentrates on life writing in particular and what the author calls "scenes of forgetting"; the second examines both fiction and autobiographies that deal with questions of collective memory/forgetting. The book's principal aim is to map methods and strategies writers employ when writing the forgotten - it argues that forgetting is a constant companion in any memory text and plays a decisive role in the memory work performed in the texts. The main theoretical objective is to examine carefully the connection between collective memory and personal memory, by drawing from two disciplines at once: memory studies and theories on life writing. By considering both areas of research, the conclusions of this study are able to feed into both theoretical perspectives.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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text file
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 16, 2016).
Series
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Introduction: Writing the Forgotten
Part I. Scenes of Forgetting in Life Writing
1. Forewords and Forgettings: Introductions and Preambles in Autobiography
2. Forgetting and the Writing Moment: Corrections and Family Archives
3. Forgetting Online: Self-Representation on Social Network Sites
Part II. The Past Recovered
4. Excavating a Troubled Past: Spanish Memory Texts
5. 6. The Inheritance of Forgetting: Narratives of Postmemory
7. Coda: Aide de mémoire or aide d'oubli? Forgetting in Photographs.
