Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction: Narratives of East-Central European Immigrant Experience (New Americanists in Poland, Band 13)

Koval, Marta:

ISBN 10: 3631850786 / ISBN 13: 9783631850787

Edité par Peter Lang 10.2021., 2021

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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.

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• Titre: Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction: Narratives of East-Central European Immigrant Experience (New Americanists in Poland, Band 13)
• Éditeur: Peter Lang 10.2021.
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631850786
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631850787
• Reliure: Gebundener Originalpappband
• Édition: Auflage: 1.
• État de l'article: Wie neu
• Poids: 305 grammes
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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.

À propos de l?auteur

Marta Koval is Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdansk. Her research interests include postwar American fiction, historical novel in the late 20^th-early 21^st centuries, exile fiction, American ethnic fiction, memory studies, and transcultural studies.