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Melancholy and the Archive - Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Melancholy and the Archive - Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory
are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David
Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book
explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between
sites of memoryGCothe archive becomes a central trope hereGCoand
the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various
losses. The archiveGCobe it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an
underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape
(Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)GCobecomes 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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