@article{1449801,
      recid = {1449801},
      author = {Grmusa, Lovorka Gruic. and Oklopcic, Biljana.},
      title = {Memory and identity in modern and postmodern American  literature /},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)},
      note = {Description based upon print version of record.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1449801},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5025-4},
}