Amnesia and the Nation History, Forgetting, and James Joyce /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Cheng, Vincent J. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Θέματα: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Historiography.; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Memory Studies.

This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce's works-as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Luria, Anderson, and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction: Memory, Forgetting, and the Imagination
• 2 The Nightmare of History and the Burden of the Past
• 3 The Will to Forget: Nation and Forgetting in Ulysses
• 4 The Memory of the Past: National Memory and Commemoration
• 5 Joyce, Ireland, and the American South: Whiteness, Blackness, and Lost Causes
• 6 Slavery, the South, and Ethical Remembrancing
• 7 Afterword.