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Title
Memory made, hacked, and outsourced : how the 21st Century Anglophone novels remember and forget / Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng.
ISBN
9789811992513 (electronic bk.)
9811992517 (electronic bk.)
9789811992506
9811992509
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 148 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-19-9251-3 doi
Call Number
PR889
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.9209353
Summary
This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also explores how literary practices and imagination are shaping new concepts of memory in the 21st century. By analyzing the selected novels : Penelope Lively's The Photograph, Tom McCarthy's Remainder, Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and Felicia Yap's Yesterday : this book explores the dynamic interplay of remembering and forgetting, and redefines the relationship between fiction and memory in the 21st century. Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng is the director and associate professor in the Language Center at Taipei Medical University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her publications have addressed memory studies, film studies, visual culture, urban modernity, Amy Levy, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Kazuo Ishiguro, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Tati's works. Her several research projects (2017-2023), funded by the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan, R.O.C., focus on representations of memory in contemporary novels and films.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Memory and Fiction in the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Memory Made: Photography, Latency, and Contingency in Penelope Lively's The Photograph
Chapter 3: Memory in Seriality: Remainder, Repetition, and Authenticity in Tom McCarthy's Remainder
Chapter 4: Memory Hacking: Remembering, Storytelling, and Unreliable Narrators in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story
Chapter 5: Remember Like Humans: (Post-)human Memories, Forgetting, and Space of Latency in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Chapter 6: Memory Outsourced: New Memory in the Digital Age in Felicia Yap's Yesterday
Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Future of 21st Century Memory.
