Memory And Identity In Modern And Postmodern American Literature
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Memory And Identity In Modern And Postmodern American Literature
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Author : Lovorka Gruic Grmusa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-09-16
Memory And Identity In Modern And Postmodern American Literature written by Lovorka Gruic Grmusa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book discusses how American literary modernism and postmodernism interconnect memory and identity and if, and how, the intertwining of memory and identity has been related to the dominant socio-cultural trends in the United States or the specific historical contexts in the world. The book’s opening chapter is the interrogation of the narrator’s memories of Jay Gatsby and his life in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The second chapter shows how in William Faulkner’s Light in August memory impacts the search for identities in the storylines of the characters. The third chapter discusses the correlation between memory, self, and culture in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Discussing Robert Coover’s Gerald’s Party, the fourth chapter reveals that memory and identity are contextualized and that cognitive processes, including memory, are grounded in the body’s interaction with the environment, featuring dehumanized characters, whose identities appear as role-plays. The subsequent chapter is the analysis of how Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated deals with the heritage of Holocaust memories and postmemories. The last chapter focuses on Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day, the reconstructive nature of memory, and the politics and production of identity in Southeastern Europe.
Holocaust Impiety In Jewish American Literature
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Author : Joost Krijnen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-05-02
Holocaust Impiety In Jewish American Literature written by Joost Krijnen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism.
Redefining Modernism And Postmodernism
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Author : Sebnem Toplu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-09
Redefining Modernism And Postmodernism written by Sebnem Toplu and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary and cultural studies in the later twentieth century were very much shaped by debates about modernism and postmodernism as labels for successive periods, but also for different competing interpretations of recent cultural history. In the twenty-first century, the shock waves that were sent through the global system on political, cultural, economic, and ecological levels by terrorist attacks, regional conflicts, poverty, the financial crisis and the threat of environmental disaster raise anew the question of how and to what extent the tradition of modernity can be newly defined in a situation where the problematic aspects of these ideas have rightly been exposed, but where they nevertheless appear to be crucial for any responsible assessment of contemporary world culture and its future perspectives. Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism offers a collection of critical articles that resulted from the International Cultural Studies Symposium at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 2009. Scholars from around the world have contributed to this volume reflecting the current perspective on modernism and postmodernism, shedding new light on literature, literary theory, philosophy, politics, religion, film and art. Providing an account of this field, this book enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing essays on transformations of modernism and postmodernism in the twenty-first century, and the debates beyond the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy.
Postmodern Love In The Contemporary Jewish Imagination
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Author : Efraim Sicher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Postmodern Love In The Contemporary Jewish Imagination written by Efraim Sicher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Social Science categories.
Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Memory Theater And Postmodern Drama
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Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1999
Memory Theater And Postmodern Drama written by Jeanette R. Malkin and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides a new way of defining--and understanding--postmodern drama
Crossing Cultures
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Author : Judith Oster
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2003
Crossing Cultures written by Judith Oster and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
"In this important new study, Judith Oster looks at the literature of Chinese Americans and Jewish Americans in relation to each other. Examining what is most at issue for both groups as they live between two cultures, languages, and environments, Oster focuses on the struggles of protagonists to form identities that are necessarily bicultural and always in process. Recognizing what poststructuralism has demonstrated regarding the instability of the subject and the impossibility of a unitary identity, Oster contends that the writers of these works are attempting to shore up the fragments, to construct, through their texts, some sort of wholeness and to answer at least partially the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong?" --Book Jacket.
Ghetto Images In Twentieth Century American Literature
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Author : Tyrone R. Simpson II
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-01-30
Ghetto Images In Twentieth Century American Literature written by Tyrone R. Simpson II and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-30 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.
Succeeding Postmodernism
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Author : Mary K. Holland
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Succeeding Postmodernism written by Mary K. Holland and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
The Cambridge Companion To Asian American Literature
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Author : Crystal Parikh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-20
The Cambridge Companion To Asian American Literature written by Crystal Parikh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Undergraduate Catalog
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Author : University of Michigan--Dearborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Undergraduate Catalog written by University of Michigan--Dearborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Universities and colleges categories.