{"id":2159,"date":"2018-02-19T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2018-02-19T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:00:32","slug":"book-announcement-memory-frictions-in-contemporary-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-memory-frictions-in-contemporary-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez-Alfaro and Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn (eds.), <em>Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>294pp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN:<\/strong> 978-3-319-61758-9,<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN (eBook):<\/strong> 978-3-319-61759-6<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-memory-frictions-in-contemporary-literature\/memory-fictions-jpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2160\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/memory-fictions-jpg.jpg?resize=213%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/memory-fictions-jpg.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/memory-fictions-jpg.jpg?resize=768%2C1084&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/memory-fictions-jpg.jpg?resize=726%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 726w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/memory-fictions-jpg.jpg?w=827&amp;ssl=1 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Description<\/h3>\n<p>The essays that make up the collection delve into both the treatment of memory in literature and the view of literature as a medium of memory, paying special attention to major controversies attending the representation and (re)construction of individual, cultural and collective memories in literary narratives in English published from 1990 to the present. Focusing on texts written by authors from diverse backgrounds \u2014Great Britain, South-Korea, the USA, Cuba, Australia, Burma, as well as Native-American Indian and African-American writers\u2014 this book attempts to explore the multifarious representational strategies used by contemporary writers so as to textualise memory and its friction areas through literary practices. The contributors to the collection analyse a good range of memory frictions \u2014in connection with melancholic mourning, immigration, diaspora, genocide, perpetration and victimhood, dialogic witnessing, memorialisation practices, inherited traumatic memories, murder, sexual abuse, prostitution, etc.\u2014 by making use of various disciplines \u2014such as psychoanalysis, ethics, politics, space theories, postcolonial studies, narratology, feminism and gender studies, critical studies in food and culture\u2014 resulting in a volume that is genuinely contemporary and committed to cross-cultural ethical engagement.<\/p>\n<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Memory Frictions: Conflict-Negotiation-Politics. Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez-Alfaro and Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I: Experimentation and Genre: Formal Memory Frictions<u> <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Powers of Vulnerability: The Restorative Uses\u2028of Elegy. Jean-Michel Ganteau<\/li>\n<li>Narrative Form, Memory Frictions and the Revelation\u2028of Traumatic Secrets in Toni Morrison\u2019s <em>Home.<\/em> Susana Onega<\/li>\n<li>The Zigzag Trajectory through Time of Colum\u2028McCann\u2019s TransAtlantic. Sandra Singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part II: Collective Tensions and the Politics of Remembrance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public Art and Communal Space: The Politics of Commemoration in Amy Waldman\u2019s <em>The <\/em>Submission. Paula Mart\u00edn-Salv\u00e1n<\/li>\n<li>A Korean \u201cApocryphal\u201d Island, <em>Once the Shore<\/em>, by Paul\u2028Yoon. Marc Amfreville<\/li>\n<li>False Memories, False Foods: Eating, Cooking,\u2028Remembering in <em>Tastes like Cuba <\/em>by Eduardo Machado. Nieves Pascual Soler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part III: The Haunting Presence of the Holocaust: Multidirectional, Transgenerational and Memorial Struggles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Holocaust in the Eye of the Beholder: Memory in\u2028Carmel Bird\u2019s <em>The Bluebird Caf\u00e9. <\/em>B\u00e1rbara Arizti<\/li>\n<li>Lore, or the Implicated Witness: Rachel Seiffert\u2019s\u2028Postmemory Work. Susanne Baackmann<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo Redress but Memory\u201d: Holocaust Representation\u2028and Memorialization in E.L. Doctorow\u2019s <em>City of God. <\/em>Mar\u00eda Ferr\u00e1ndez San Miguel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part IV: Mapping Memories, Spatial F(r)ictions and Troubled Identities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-Mapping the Trauma Paradigm: The Politics\u2028of Native American Grief in Louise Erdrich\u2019s \u201cShamengwa\u201d. Silvia Mart\u00ednez-Falquina<\/li>\n<li>Remembering the Way Back Home: The Role of Place\u2028in Wendy Law-Yone\u2019s <em>The Road to Wanting<\/em>. Dolores Herrero<\/li>\n<li>Negotiating Traumatic Memories in Louise Erdrich\u2019s\u2028<em>The Round House<\/em>: White Man\u2019s Law vs. Native Justice\u2028and Tradition. Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion.<\/strong> Robert Eaglestone<\/p>\n<h3>Editors<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez-Alfaro<\/strong> is \u00a0Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Zaragoza (Spain).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn<\/strong>\u00a0is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology in the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza (Spain).<\/p>\n<h3>Further details<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/la\/book\/9783319617589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/la\/book\/9783319617589<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783319617589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783319617589<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar\u00eda Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez-Alfaro and Silvia Pellicer-Ort\u00edn (eds.), Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 294pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-61758-9, ISBN (eBook): 978-3-319-61759-6 Description The essays that make up the collection delve into both the treatment of memory in literature and the view of literature as a medium of memory, paying special attention to major controversies attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}