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Gebundener Originalpappband. Zustand: Wie neu. Auflage: 1. 178 Seiten Frisches und sauberes Exemplar. Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon. The analysis of selected novels highlights a distinct historical slant with elements of generational memory, memory of places, rememory, and postmemory. The author introduces and develops the concept of post-immigrant ethnic fiction and identifies a mnemonic pattern characteristic of American post-immigrant ethnic and exile writing. I. Frameworks of Remembrance in Immigrant Narratives . 9 1.1 Types of Immigrant Narratives: Clarification of Terms . 9 1.2 Migration and Memory: Introductory Remarks. 10 1.3 Memory Boom of the 1990s-2010s. 11 1.4 Types and Formats of Memory. 15 1.5 Cultural Memory. 19 1.6 Generational Memory. 29 1.7 Memories are Small Islands in a Sea of Forgetting. 39 1.8 What Immigrants Remember. 45 1.9 Memory of Places. 49 IL The Need to Remember and the Right to Forget in Askold Melnyczuks Novels. 57 II. 1 A Ukrainian Voice in Ethnic American Fiction. 57 11.2 Memory and Identity in What Is Told by Askold Melnyczuk. 60 11.3 Frameworks of Remembrance and Forgetting in Ambassador of the Dead. 69 11.4 To Live and Forget and Remember. All at Once: Patterns of Memory in The House of Widows by Askold Melnyczuk. 84 III. Echoes of the War: Exile, Immigration, and Memory in Domnica Radulescu and Aleksandar Hemons Fiction. 109 III. 1 Landscape of Memory and Exile in Domnica Radulescus Novel Country of Red Azaleas. 109 III. 2 Remember to Understand: Memory, Identity, and History in Aleksandar Hemons novels Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project. 138 Conclusion. 159 Bibliography. 167 Index of Names . 173 ISBN 9783631850787 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 305.…

Pp. Zustand: Wie neu. 255 S. ; 22 cm Tadelloses Exemplar. - List of Contents -- Preface 7 -- List o f Abbreviated Titles 10 -- Chapter I -- History that Matters: Some New Ways o f Problematizing History -- in Fiction 11 -- 1. New subjectivity in the humanities and in literature: tradition and novelty 13 -- 2. From cultural memory and experience to subjective history 29 -- 3. The novel about history as a mode o f fictional representation o f the past 4 5 -- 4. Historical event as a narrative category 54 -- Chapter II -- Subjective History in William Gass's Novel The Tunnel or Side-Effects -- of Postmodern Diversity 65 -- Chapter III -- Visual Tools o f Subjective History-Making 101 -- 1. Micro- and macro-historical dimensions o f art and its interpretation -- in Richard Powers's novel Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance 101 -- 2. The ethical dimension o f images and "commodified" memory -- in Nicholson Baker's novel Checkpoint 127 -- Chapter IV -- "Holding Out for a Hint o f Harmony": Music, Subjective History, -- and Identity Quest in Richard Powers's The Time o f Our Singing 145 -- Chapter V -- The Experience o f and about History: The Multicultural Dimension -- of Subjective History-Making in The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar -- Hemon and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 181 -- 1. Glimpses o f the past as mirrors o f the present: subjective experience -- o f history in The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon 183 -- 2. Quest for identity and subjunctive history in Jeffrey Eugenides's -- Middlesex 203 -- Chapter VI -- Moral Challenges of History in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home 219 -- Conclusions 241 -- Works Cited 251 ISBN 9783631626108 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 428.…

Zustand: New. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which subjective history has been created in the new novel about history, written by such authors as William Gass, Richard Powers, Marilynne Robinson, Nicholson Baker, Aleksandar Hemon, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Series: Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438. . 2013. New edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon. The analysis of selected novels highlights a distinct historical slant with elements of generational memory, memory of places, rememory, and postmemory. The author introduces and develops the concept of post-immigrant ethnic fiction and identifies a mnemonic pattern characteristic of American post-immigrant ethnic and exile writing.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. The author points at the ways in which subjective history has been created in the new novel.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which subjective history has been created in the new 'novel about history', written by such authors as William Gass, Richard Powers, Marilynne Robinson, Nicholson Baker, Aleksandar Hemon, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Theoretically, the study has been inspired by the works of Aleida Assmann, Hayden White, Reinhart Koselleck, Frank Ankersmit, and Dominick LaCapra.…