Memory and identity in modern and postmodern American literature / Lovorka Gruic Grmusa, Biljana Oklopcic.
2022
PS121 .G76 2022
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Memory and identity in modern and postmodern American literature / Lovorka Gruic Grmusa, Biljana Oklopcic.
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9789811950254 ebook
9811950253 ebook
9789811950247 print
9811950253 ebook
9789811950247 print
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2022].
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©2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)
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10.1007/978-981-19-5025-4 doi
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PS121 .G76 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9353
Summary
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 books opening chapter is the interrogation of the narrators memories of Jay Gatsby and his life in F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. The second chapter shows how in William Faulkners 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 Williamss A Streetcar Named Desire. Discussing Robert Coovers Geralds Party, the fourth chapter reveals that memory and identity are contextualized and that cognitive processes, including memory, are grounded in the bodys interaction with the environment, featuring dehumanized characters, whose identities appear as role-plays. The subsequent chapter is the analysis of how Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated deals with the heritage of Holocaust memories and postmemories. The last chapter focuses on Thomas Pynchons Against the Day, the reconstructive nature of memory, and the politics and production of identity in Southeastern Europe.
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Table of Contents
The Great Gatsby: a memory of the memory
Light in August: memory and identity
A Streetcar Named Desire: memory, self, and culture
Gerald's Party: embodied memories and fluid identities
Everything is Illuminated: unproductive memories, memorization through fictional Yizker and dialogic exchange, and postmemory
Against the Day: a mis/remembered and re/imagined pilgrimage and hybrid identities.
Light in August: memory and identity
A Streetcar Named Desire: memory, self, and culture
Gerald's Party: embodied memories and fluid identities
Everything is Illuminated: unproductive memories, memorization through fictional Yizker and dialogic exchange, and postmemory
Against the Day: a mis/remembered and re/imagined pilgrimage and hybrid identities.