This volume explores the multifarious representational strategies
used by contemporary writers to textualise memory and its friction
areas through literary practices. By focusing on contemporary
narratives in English from 1990 to the present, the essays in the
collection delve into both the treatment of memory in literature
and the view of literature as a medium of memory, paying special
attention to major controversies attending the representation and
(re)construction of individual, cultural and collective memories in
the literary narratives published during the last few decades. By
analysing texts written by authors of such diverse origins as Great
Britain, South-Korea, the USA, Cuba, Australia, India, as well as
Native-American Indian and African-American writers, the
contributors to the collection analyse a good range of memory
frictions -in connection with melancholic mourning, immigration,
diaspora, genocide, perpetrator guilt, dialogic witnessing,
memorialisation practices, inherited traumatic memories, sexual
abuse, prostitution, etc.- through the recourse to various
disciplines -such as psychoanalysis, ethics, (bio)politics, space
theories, postcolonial studies, narratology, gender studies-,
resulting in a book that is expected to make a ground-breaking
contribution to a field whose possibilities have yet to be fully
explored.
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