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Up until fairly recently, memory used to be mainly considered
within the frames of the nation and related mechanisms of group
identity. Building on mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, this
form of memory focused on the event as a central category of
meaning making. Taking its cue from a number of Anglophone novels,
this book examines the indeterminate traces of memories in literary
texts that are not overtly concerned with memory but still latently
informed by the past. More concretely, it analyzes novels that do
not directly address memories and do not focus on the event as a
central meaning making category. Relegating memory to the realm of
the latent, that is the not-directly-graspable dimensions of a
text, the novels that this book analyses withdraw from overt memory
discourses and create new ways of re-membering that refigure the
temporal tripartite of past, present and future and negotiate what
is 'memorable' in the first place. Combining the analysis of the
novels' overall structure with close readings of selected passages,
this book links latency as a mode of memory with the productive
agency of formal literary devices that work both on the micro and
macro level, activating readers to challenge their learned ways of
reading for memory.
This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman
studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the
variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the
twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the
Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and
research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a
form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a
different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages
with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the
environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies
have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate
Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new
perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it
forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.
This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman
studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the
variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the
twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the
Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and
research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a
form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a
different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages
with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the
environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies
have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate
Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new
perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it
forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.
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