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Melancholy and the Archive - Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Paperback)
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Melancholy and the Archive - Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Paperback)
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"Melancholy and the Archive" examines how trauma, history and
memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers
such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose
Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial
relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central
trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas,
various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago),
an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape
(Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the
self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history
even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of
such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the
archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed,
accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian
terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject
preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but
also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of
the archive as such.
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