Memory, Narrative, Identity : : Remembering the Self / / Nicola King.
It is commonly accepted that identity or a sense of self is constructed by and through narrative - the stories we tell ourselves and each other about our lives. This book explores the complex relationships that exist between memory, nostalgia, writing and identity. The author examines a range of aut...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures : TITC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction: ‘But we didn’t know that then’
- 1. Memory in Theory
- 2. Present Imperfect Translation: Ronald Fraser’s In Search o f a Past and Carolyn Steedman’s Landscape fo r a Good Woman
- 3. ‘A life entire’: Narrative Reconstruction in Sylvia Fraser’s My Father's House and Margaret Atwood’s Cat's Eye
- 4. Myths of Origin: Identity, Memory and Detection in Barbara Vine’s A Dark Adapted Eye and Asta's Book
- 5. Holocaust, Memory, Representation: Georges Perec’s W or The Memory o f Childhood and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces
- 6. Rememory and Reconstruction: Toni Morrison’s Beloved
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index