Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature write by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa. This book was released on 2022-09-16. Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses how American literary modernism and postmodernism interconnect memory and identity and if, and how, the intertwining of memory and identity has been related to the dominant socio-cultural trends in the United States or the specific historical contexts in the world. The book’s opening chapter is the interrogation of the narrator’s memories of Jay Gatsby and his life in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The second chapter shows how in William Faulkner’s Light in August memory impacts the search for identities in the storylines of the characters. The third chapter discusses the correlation between memory, self, and culture in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Discussing Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party, the fourth chapter reveals that memory and identity are contextualized and that cognitive processes, including memory, are grounded in the body’s interaction with the environment, featuring dehumanized characters, whose identities appear as role-plays. The subsequent chapter is the analysis of how Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated deals with the heritage of Holocaust memories and postmemories. The last chapter focuses on Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day, the reconstructive nature of memory, and the politics and production of identity in Southeastern Europe.
Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature
Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature write by Joost Krijnen. This book was released on 2016-05-02. Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism.
Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing
Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing write by Theo d'. Haen. This book was released on 2006. Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing seeks to ascertain the relationship obtaining between the specific form postmodernism assumes in a given culture, and the national narrative in which that culture traditionally recognizes itself. Theo D'haen provides a general introduction to the issue of "cultural identity and postmodern writing." Jos Joosten and Thomas Vaessens take a look at Dutch literature, and particular Dutch poetry, in relation to "postmodernism." Robert Haak and Andrea Kunne do the same with regard to, respectively, German and Austrian literature, while Roel Daamen turns to Scottish literature. Patricia Krus discusses postmodernism in relation to Caribbean literature, and Kristian van Haesendonck and Nanne Timmer turn their attention to Puerto Rican and Cuban literature, while Adriana Churampi deals with Peruvian literature. Finally, Markha Valenta investigates the roots of the postmodernism debate in the United States. This volume is of interest to all students and scholars of modern and contemporary literature, and to anyone interested in issues of identity as linked to matters of culture.
Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature
Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature write by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger. This book was released on 2014-09-19. Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity.
The Politics of Storytelling
The Politics of Storytelling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Storytelling write by Susan E. Cushman. This book was released on 2002. The Politics of Storytelling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
