Memory And Identity In Modern And Postmodern American Literature

Download Memory And Identity In Modern And Postmodern American Literature full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Memory And Identity In Modern And Postmodern American Literature ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature

Author : Lovorka Gruic Grmusa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811950253
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature by : Lovorka Gruic Grmusa

Download or read book Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature written by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Joost Krijnen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004316078
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature by : Joost Krijnen

Download or read book Holocaust Impiety in Jewish American Literature written by Joost Krijnen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the “impious” Holocaust fictions of four contemporary Jewish American novelists. It argues that their work should not be seen as insensitive, but rather as explorations of various forms of renewal.

Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels

Author : Randy Laist
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433108419
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels by : Randy Laist

Download or read book Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels written by Randy Laist and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other major American author, Don DeLillo has examined the manner in which contemporary American consciousness has been shaped by the historically unique incursion into daily life of information, military, and consumer technologies. In DeLillo's fictions, technological apparatuses are not merely set-pieces in the characters' environments, nor merely tools to move the plot along, they are sites of mystery and magic, whirlpools of space-time, and convex mirrors of identity. Television sets, filmic images, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, computers, and nuclear bombs are not simply objects in the world for DeLillo's characters; they are psychological phenomena that shape the possibilities for action, influence the nature of perception, and incorporate themselves into the fabric of memory and identity. DeLillo is a phenomenologist of the contemporary technoscape and an ecologist of our new kind of natural habitat. Through a close reading of four DeLillo novels, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels examines the variety of modes in which DeLillo's fictions illustrate the technologically mediated confluence of his human subjects and the field of cultural objects in which they discover themselves. The model of interactionism between human beings and technological instruments that is implicit in DeLillo's writing suggests significant applications both to the study of other contemporary novelists as well as to contemporary cultural studies.

To be or not to be - The question of identity in selected postmodern American short stories

Author : Lars Berghaus
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638686353
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis To be or not to be - The question of identity in selected postmodern American short stories by : Lars Berghaus

Download or read book To be or not to be - The question of identity in selected postmodern American short stories written by Lars Berghaus and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-05-20 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, course: Postmodern American short stories, 5 Literaturquellen entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In his famous soliloquy of Act III, Scene 1, of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet, prince of Denmark, reveals his inner struggles and his search for identity and meaning. Confronted with and utterly disturbed by family and political problems concerning the crown of Denmark, questions, believes, social conventions and personal convictions are pressing hard on him and leave him searching for meaning and identity, trying to find for the right way through and the right way out. To be, or not to be, that is the question - whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles,”. (III,1) The question of “to be or not to be”, which is in essence the question of identity, is a widely discussed and fundamental theme of life, a topic many authors have written about and many producers have made the central theme of Hollywood movies. The purpose of this essay is to discuss question of identity in postmodern American short stories. It will include a presentation of postmodernism in its contrast to modernism. Three short stories from different American authors will be discussed in regard to conflicts and development of identity: "Lost in the funhouse" by John Barth, "Saint Marie" taken from Louise Erdrichs "Love medicine" and "A Wife's Story" by Bharati Mukherjee. Special attention will be paid to the story of initiation.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063290693
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by : Milan Kundera

Download or read book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature

Author : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317818210
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature by : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

Download or read book Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature written by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism

Author : Sebnem Toplu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443823066
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism by : Sebnem Toplu

Download or read book Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism written by Sebnem Toplu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and cultural studies in the later twentieth century were very much shaped by debates about modernism and postmodernism as labels for successive periods, but also for different competing interpretations of recent cultural history. In the twenty-first century, the shock waves that were sent through the global system on political, cultural, economic, and ecological levels by terrorist attacks, regional conflicts, poverty, the financial crisis and the threat of environmental disaster raise anew the question of how and to what extent the tradition of modernity can be newly defined in a situation where the problematic aspects of these ideas have rightly been exposed, but where they nevertheless appear to be crucial for any responsible assessment of contemporary world culture and its future perspectives. Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the International Cultural Studies Symposium at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 2009. Scholars from around the world have contributed to this volume reflecting the current perspective on modernism and postmodernism, shedding new light on literature, literary theory, philosophy, politics, religion, film and art. Providing an account of this field, this book enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing essays on transformations of modernism and postmodernism in the twenty-first century, and the debates beyond the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy.

Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing

Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021187
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing by : Theo d'. Haen

Download or read book Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama

Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110377
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama by : Jeanette R. Malkin

Download or read book Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama written by Jeanette R. Malkin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new way of defining--and understanding--postmodern drama

History, Memory and Nostalgia in Literature and Culture

Author : Regina Rudaitytė
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527514536
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis History, Memory and Nostalgia in Literature and Culture by : Regina Rudaitytė

Download or read book History, Memory and Nostalgia in Literature and Culture written by Regina Rudaitytė and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the new age has alerted us to the conflicted nature of historical memory which defined the 20th century while simultaneously assaulting us with new historical upheavals that demand responsibility and critical consideration. As the historical text bears traces of the writing subject, the element of deception is remarkable, meaning historical memory easily lends itself to forgery and false and subjective projections. As such, how do we think about the past, about history, about memory, and how does memory function? Is history an objective account, a collection of dry, reliable facts? Is it an imaginative narrative, tinged with nostalgia, a projection of our wishful thinking, the workings of our subjective perceptions and attitudes, our states of mind? The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia. The contributors here take issue with the epistemological, hermeneutic, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of the representational practices through which we revisit and revise the meaning of the past.

Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature

Author : Anastasia Ulanowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136156208
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature by : Anastasia Ulanowicz

Download or read book Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature written by Anastasia Ulanowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award This book visits a range of textual forms including diary, novel, and picturebook to explore the relationship between second-generation memory and contemporary children’s literature. Ulanowicz argues that second-generation memory — informed by intimate family relationships, textual mediation, and technology — is characterized by vicarious, rather than direct, experience of the past. As such, children’s literature is particularly well-suited to the representation of second-generation memory, insofar as children’s fiction is particularly invested in the transmission and reproduction of cultural memory, and its form promotes the formation of various complex intergenerational relationships. Further, children’s books that depict second-generation memory have the potential to challenge conventional Western notions of selfhood and ethics. This study shows how novels such as Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) and Judy Blume’s Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself (1977) — both of which feature protagonists who adapt their elders’ memories into their own mnemonic repertoires — implicitly reject Cartesian notions of the unified subject in favor of a view of identity as always-already social, relational, and dynamic in character. This book not only questions how and why second-generation memory is represented in books for young people, but whether such representations of memory might be considered 'radical' or 'conservative'. Together, these analyses address a topic that has not been explored fully within the fields of children’s literature, trauma and memory studies, and Holocaust studies.

Signs and Cities

Author : Madhu Dubey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226167283
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Signs and Cities by : Madhu Dubey

Download or read book Signs and Cities written by Madhu Dubey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.

Memory, Narrative, and Identity

Author : Amritjit Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555532673
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Memory, Narrative, and Identity by : Amritjit Singh

Download or read book Memory, Narrative, and Identity written by Amritjit Singh and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how American writers of African, Mexican, Irish, Chinese, South Asian, Jewish, and Native American descent reclaim suppressed pasts, facilitating the emergence of newly empowering ethnic identities.

Mnemopoetics

Author : Valérie Bada
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052012766
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mnemopoetics by : Valérie Bada

Download or read book Mnemopoetics written by Valérie Bada and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its very beginning, African American drama has borne witness to the creative power of the slaves to maintain their human dignity as well as to fashion a complex culture of survival. If the memory of slavery has always been at the heart of the African American theatrical tradition, it is the way in which it is processed and inscribed that has developed and is still changing. Through the close reading and socio-historical analysis of eight plays from 1939 to 1996, the author seeks to unravel the fluctuating patterns in the shaping of the theatrical memory of slavery long after its abolition. To do so, she defines the concept and practice of mnemopoetics as the making of memory through imagination as well as the critical approaches that decipher and interpret cultural productions of memory. As a constellation of processes akin to the fluidity of memory, mnemopoetics blends creative representation and critical exploration to suggest that the cultural creation of memory necessarily entails a self-reflexive involvement with its own interpretation. If slavery embodies the deep, foundational memory of America, African American drama represents the open, communal space where it becomes possible to convert the irretrievable nature of a vicarious past into the redeeming function of a collective memory.

Complicating Constructions

Author : David S. Goldstein
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800747
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Complicating Constructions by : David S. Goldstein

Download or read book Complicating Constructions written by David S. Goldstein and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of collected essays offers truly multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors - from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte - these essays provide a vital supplement to the critical literary canon, mapping a newly variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between “ethnic” and “nonethnic” literatures.

Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction

Author : Patricia San José Rico
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364102
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction by : Patricia San José Rico

Download or read book Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction written by Patricia San José Rico and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do contemporary African American authors relate trauma, memory, and the recovery of the past with the processes of cultural and identity formation in African American communities?

Writing against Racial Injury

Author : Haivan V. Hoang
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980940
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Writing against Racial Injury by : Haivan V. Hoang

Download or read book Writing against Racial Injury written by Haivan V. Hoang and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider racial tensions. Bringing together language and literacy studies, Asian American history and rhetoric, and critical race theory, Hoang uses historiography and ethnography to explore the politics of Asian American language and literacy education: the growth of Asian American student organizations and self-sponsored writing; the ways language served as thinly veiled trope for race in the influential Lau v. Nichols; the inheritance of a rhetoric of injury on college campuses; and activist rhetorical strategies that rearticulate Asian American racial identity. These fragments depict a troubling yet hopeful account of the ways language and literacy education alternately racialized Asian Americans while also enabling rearticulations of Asian American identity, culture, and history. This project, more broadly, seeks to offer educators a new perspective on racial accountability in language and literacy education.