Full Description
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book explores both the value of approaches and concepts from literary studies for memory scholarship and the plurality of ways in which literature can advance theories of memory. Chapters cover reading and writing memory and literature; remediations and intersections; local and global cultures; postcolonial and decolonial approaches; environmental and more-than-human memory and literature; and law and justice. It offers an indispensable resource for students and scholars of both literary and memory studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction, Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson.- Chapter 2: Roundtable, Cathy Caruth, Stef Craps, Marianne Hirsch, Jill Jarvis and Ann Rigney.- Section 1: Reading and Writing Memory and Literature.- Chapter 3: This isn't about me: literature, memory and memoirs, Susannah Radstone.- Chapter 4: Cross-reading Memory: Remediating Loss in Noel Streatfeild's Saplings, Jessica Rapson.- Chapter 5: How do you say Brexit in French? Gender, Class and Exceptionality, Clare Hemmings.- Chapter 6: Diary of a Disappearance: Palestinian Processes, Yasmine Shamma.- Section 2: Remediations and Intersections in Memory and Literature.- Chapter 7: Looking at Race with 20/20 Vision: How are we (Mis)Remembering the Past?, Jon Ward.- Chapter 8: "No no / He is dead." A chapter in which a nine-minute video about Bertolt Brecht is not a nine-minute video about Bertolt Brecht, Kate Graham.- Chapter 9: Literature between Archive and Memory in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, Pieter Vermeulen and Tom Chadwick.- Chapter 10: Literary Memory across the longue durée: The Odyssey as a Travelling Narrative, Astrid Erll.- Section 3: Local to Global Cultures in Memory and Literature.- Chapter 11: Nostalgia for the "Sweet Smiling Village" in Ireland: Local Colour Fiction, Homeland and Diaspora, Marguerite Corporaal.- Chapter 12: Migration and Memory, Mads Rosendhal Thomsen.- Chapter 13: Dark Food: Sugar and Memory in Cristina García's novel Dreaming in Cuban, Alessandra Pino.- Chapter 14: Footsteps, Asha Chand.- Section 4: Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches to Memory and Literature.- Chapter 15: Mutable Past, Dreamable Future: The Work of Memory and the Making of Postcolonial Angola in Jose Eduardo Agualusa's Novels, Sakiru Adebayo.- Chapter 16: Memory and coloniality: A dialogue across history, literature, and Country, Chris Healy and Tony Birch.- Chapter 17: "But What We Are is What Our Ancestors Did": Indigenous Postmemory in Tommy Orange's There There, Jessica Young. Chapter 18: What Remains: Postcolonial Ecofiction and Mnemonic Anchoring in Indra Sinha's Animal's People, Hanna Teichler.- Section 5: Environmental and More-than-Human Memory and Literature.- Chapter 19: "Forget what it means to be human": Precarity, Posthumanism, and the Allegorical Imagination in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed, Lucy Bond.- Chapter 20: Remembering Rain: Pluvial Poesis and Marronage in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon, Ifor Duncan.- Chapter 21: Remembering the Anthropocene in the Literature of War: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Rick Crownshaw.- Chapter 22: 'And then Country's Tone changed': Eco-Sonic Memory in Australian Pyrocene Fiction, Ben de Bruyn.- Section 6: Memory, Literature, Law and Justice.- Chapter 23: Guantánamo and the Production of Cosmopolitan Memory, Terri Tomsky.- Chapter 24: Justice for the Srebrenica Genocide? Law, Theatre and Memory, Anna Katila.- Chapter 25: In Search of A Spectral Other: the Ungrievable Tie and Time in Postsocialist China, Yawen Li.- Chapter 26: Kafka and the right to memory, Noam Tirosh.
