In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analyzing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs.

Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory. It discusses a broad range of European and North American texts and contexts to tease out the internal contradictions of women's rewriting in the transmission of culture. Contemporary women's rewriting emerged in a moment of history particularly obsessed with memory. A literary genre in which narratives of the past are retold from the perspective of a female character in the original story, women's rewriting literally re-calls the old stories differently. Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting is a detailed and representative study of how feminist fiction uses rewriting to engage questions of cultural remembrance and forgetting in relation to gendered identity, generating incisive interpretations of works by such authors as Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Maryse Conde, Ursula Le Guin, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pia Pera, Michele Roberts, Jeanette Winterson and Christa Wolf.

Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.

In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema, photographs and souvenirs.