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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300003103321

Autore

Cheng Vincent J

Titolo

Amnesia and the Nation : History, Forgetting, and James Joyce / / by Vincent J. Cheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319718187

3319718185

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Collana

New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature, , 2731-3190

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

European literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Collective memory

European Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Memory Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction: Memory, Forgetting, and the Imagination -- 2 The Nightmare of History and the Burden of the Past -- 3 The Will to Forget: Nation and Forgetting in Ulysses -- 4 The Memory of the Past: National Memory and Commemoration -- 5 Joyce, Ireland, and the American South: Whiteness, Blackness, and Lost Causes -- 6 Slavery, the South, and Ethical Remembrancing -- 7 Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce's works-as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Luria, Anderson, and Yerushalmi, this study explores the burden of the past and the "nightmare of history" in Ireland and in the American South-from the Battle of the Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement, from the Civil War to the 2015 Mother Emanuel killings.