Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction

Marta Koval

ISBN 10: 3631850786 / ISBN 13: 9783631850787

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2021, 2021

Beschreibung

Neuware -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. 178 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631850787

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2021
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631850786
• ISBN-13: 9783631850787
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 350 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The monograph analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the roles it plays in identity construction and in the adjustment of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on post-immigrant and exile fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.