Mind the Ghost - Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French (Hardcover)

Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary fiction in French, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and Helene Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readers' investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century - in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda - this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions and untimely irruptions to posit literature's power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Gael Faye, Jerome Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Leila Sebbar, and Cecile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 88
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Sonja Stojanovic
Dimensions:	239 x 163 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-80085-488-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-80085-488-9
Barcode:	9781800854888

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