Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 309
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Book Synopsis Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature by : Yvonne Liebermann

Download or read book Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature written by Yvonne Liebermann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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