The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the connections between memory and literature. Organized into six interrelated sections, the book explores both the value of approaches and concepts from literary studies for memory scholarship and the plurality of ways in which literature can advance theories of memory. Chapters cover reading and writing memory and literature; remediations and intersections; local and global cultures; postcolonial and decolonial approaches; environmental and more-than-human memory and literature; and law and justice. It offers an indispensable resource for students and scholars of both literary and memory studies.

Brings together leading international experts from both literary and memory studies Explores how theoretical innovations in memory studies have inspired new approaches to literary analysis and vice versa Examines how literary genres speak to contemporary conceptions of memory, moving beyond Western literary memory studies

Auteur

Lucy Bond is a Reader in Literature and Memory Studies at the University of Westminster, UK. She has published widely on the culture and politics of memory and trauma. Her work includes Frames of Memory After 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics and Law and the New Critical Idiom guide to Trauma (co-authored with Stef Craps). Lucy has also published edited collections including: The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders; Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies; and Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction.

Susannah Radstone is Honorary Principal Fellow in the University of Melbourne's School of Culture and Communication, Australia. She co-edited the path-breaking Routledge series 'Studies in Memory and Narrative' and convened the long-running London 'Cultural Memory' seminar. She co-organised, (with Katharine Hodgkin and Stan Papoulias), the first major international Memory Studies conference ('Frontiers of Memory', Institute of Education, 1999). Publications include The Sexual Politics of Time and Memory and Methodology and co-edited volumes including Regimes of Memory; Contested Pasts; Culture and the Unconscious; and Public Emotions. She is currently researching memories of film festival-going and writing a book of her own memory work.

Jessica Rapson is a Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK. She has published widely on commemorative environments and difficult heritage including the monograph Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice. She is also the co-editor of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders and Planetary Memory in Contemporary American Fiction. She is currently researching, with Lucy Bond, the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust sponsored project Processing Memory: Heritage, Industry and Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States.

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction, Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson.- Chapter 2: Roundtable, Cathy Caruth, Stef Craps, Marianne Hirsch, Jill Jarvis and Ann Rigney.- Section 1: Reading and Writing Memory and Literature.- Chapter 3: This isn't about me: literature, memory and memoirs, Susannah Radstone.- Chapter 4: Cross-reading Memory: Remediating Loss in Noel Streatfeild's Saplings, Jessica Rapson.- Chapter 5: How do you say Brexit in French? Gender, Class and Exceptionality, Clare Hemmings.- Chapter 6: Diary of a Disappearance: Palestinian Processes, Yasmine Shamma.- Section 2: Remediations and Intersections in Memory and Literature.- Chapter 7: Looking at Race with 20/20 Vision: How are we (Mis)Remembering the Past?, Jon Ward.- Chapter 8: No no / He is dead. A chapter in which a nine-minute video about Bertolt Brecht is not a nine-minute video about Bertolt Brecht, Kate Graham.- Chapter 9: Literature between Archive and Memory in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, Pieter Vermeulen and Tom Chadwick.- Chapter 10: Literary Memory across the longue durée: The Odyssey as a Travelling Narrative, Astrid Erll.- Section 3: Local to Global Cultures in Memory and Literature.- Chapter 11: Nostalgia for the Sweet Smiling Village in Ireland: Local Colour Fiction, Homeland and Diaspora, Marguerite Corporaal.- Chapter 12: Migration and Memory, Mads Rosendhal Thomsen.- Chapter 13: Dark Food: Sugar and Memory in Cristina García's novel Dreaming in Cuban, Alessandra Pino.- Chapter 14: Footsteps, Asha Chand.- Section 4: Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches to Memory and Literature.- Chapter 15: Mutable Past, Dreamable Future: The Work of Memory and the Making of Postcolonial Angola in Jose Eduardo Agualusa's Novels, Sakiru Adebayo.- Chapter 16: Memory and coloniality: A dialogue across history, literature, and Country, Chris Healy and Tony Birch.- Chapter 17: But What We Are is What Our Ancestors Did: Indigenous Postmemory in Tommy Orange's There There, Jessica Young. Chapter 18: What Remains: Postcolonial Ecofiction and Mnemonic Anchoring in Indra Sinha's Animal's People, Hanna Teichler.- Section 5: Environmental and More-than-Human Memory and Literature.- Chapter 19: Forget what it means to be human: Precarity, Posthumanism, and the Allegorical Imagination in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed, Lucy Bond.- Chapter 20: Remembering Rain: Pluvial Poesis and Marronage in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon, Ifor Duncan.- Chapter 21: Remembering the Anthropocene in the Literature of War: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Rick Crownshaw.- Chapter 22: 'And then Country's Tone changed': Eco-Sonic Memory in Australian Pyrocene Fiction, Ben de Bruyn.- Section 6: Memory, Literature, Law and Justice.- Chapter 23: Guantánamo and the Production of Cosmopolitan Memory, Terri Tomsky.- Chapter 24: Justice for the Srebrenica Genocide? Law, Theatre and Memory, Anna Katila.- Chapter 25: In Search of A Spectral Other: the Ungrievable Tie and Time in Postsocialist China, Yawen Li.- Chapter 26: Kafka and the right to memory, Noam Tirosh.