Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature / / Yvonne Liebermann.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: Latency as a Mode of Memory
- 2 Memory – Latency – Eventfulness
- 3 Being Notably Absent: Uneventfulness and Digression in J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
- 4 Idiorrhythm in Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)
- 5 Non-Evental Multiperspectivity: Column McCann’s Let the Great World Spin (2009)
- 6 “Places are Ghosts, too”: Yvonne Owuor’s Dust (2014)
- 7 Re-Membering Modernism: Anna Burns’ Milkman (2018)
- 8 Remembering Britain’s Lost Children: The Myth of Filiation in Caryl Phillips’ The Lost Child (2015)
- 9 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index