Martínez-Alfaro, María Jesús
Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature
1. Introduction: Memory Frictions—Conflict–Negotiation–Politics in Contemporary Literature in English
María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro, Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
Part I. Experimentation and Genre: Formal Memory Frictions
2. The Powers of Vulnerability: The Restorative Uses of Elegy
Jean-Michel Ganteau
3. Narrative Form, Memory Frictions and the Revelation of Traumatic Secrets in Toni Morrison’s
Susana Onega
4. The Zigzag Trajectory Through Time of Colum McCann’s
Sandra Singer
Part II. Collective Tensions and the Politics of Remembrance
5. Public Art and Communal Space: The Politics of Commemoration in Amy Waldman’s
Paula Martín-Salván
6. A Korean “Apocryphal” Island,
Marc Amfreville
7. False Memories, False Foods: Eating, Cooking, Remembering in
Nieves Pascual Soler
Part III. The Haunting Presence of the Holocaust: Multidirectional, Transgenerational and Memorial Struggles
8. The Holocaust in the Eye of the Beholder: Memory in Carmel Bird’s
Bárbara Arizti
9. Lore, or the Implicated Witness: Rachel Seiffert’s Postmemory Work
Susanne Baackmann
10. “No Redress but Memory”: Holocaust Representation and Memorialization in E.L. Doctorow’s
María Ferrández San Miguel
Part IV. Mapping Memories, Spatial F(r)ictions and Troubled Identities
11. Re-Mapping the Trauma Paradigm: The Politics of Native American Grief in Louise Erdrich’s “Shamengwa”
Silvia Martínez-Falquina
12. Remembering the Way Back Home: The Role of Place in Wendy Law-Yone’s
Dolores Herrero
13. Negotiating Traumatic Memories in Louise Erdrich’s
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
14. Conclusion
Robert Eaglestone
Keywords: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Memory Studies
- Editor
- Martínez-Alfaro, María Jesús
- Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 15 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319617596
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-61758-9