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Against Amnesia - Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (Hardcover)
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Against Amnesia - Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (Hardcover)
Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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In "Against Amnesia," Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing
postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of
documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's
claim that women's literature and multicultural literature
vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that characterize
mainstream North American culture, Peterson examines the struggles
toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's
writing.
Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdrich,
Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawa, and other contemporary
women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover
and represent the historical memories attached to their
racial/ethnic backgrounds. Their works probe traumatic moments in
the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native
American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery,
migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of
people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies
that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories.
At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to
narrate resonant counterhistories. Rejecting the playfully
imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern
novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct
historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate
historical memory in contemporary American culture.
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