Outward evil, inward battle : human memory in literature /
This book adds a humanistic touch to memory studies. It uses literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, and characters as the subjects of human experimentation and diagnostics. This book considers authors from different societies and historical periods. The book is an illumination on t...
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| Language: | English |
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Langaa RPCIG,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Towards a Paradigm of Memory in Literature
- Power. Quakers, Memory & the Past in Literature ; The Power of Memory : Crossroads in Works by Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson
- Music. Memory, the Blues, and African American Slave Narratives ; It Rains Inside : Parenting and Music in Works by William Faulkner, August Wilson, and Sherman Alexie
- Resistance. Unwavering Insubordination : Rebellion & Memory in The Letters of Elizabeth Hooton ; Memory and Resistance in the Poetry of Gcina Mhlophe
- Trauma. Veiling the Past : Memory and Identity in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker ; Memorizing the Dark : Margaret Walker and Toni Morrison Compress African American Time and Space in Poetry and Fiction
- Cultural Identity. There's No Place Like Home : Cultural Memory in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes and Memory ; "Go Back and Get It" : Spirit Possession as Rite of Passage and a Medium of Self-reinvention in Contemporary African Diasporic Literature.
