LEADER 03934nam 22006615 450 001 9910595048903321 005 20230810230629.0 010 $a981-19-5025-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-19-5025-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7088317 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7088317 035 $a(CKB)24846069700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-19-5025-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924846069700041 100 $a20220916d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMemory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature /$fby Lovorka Gruic Grmusa, Biljana Oklopcic 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (202 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Grmusa, Lovorka Gruic Memory and Identity in Modern and Postmodern American Literature Singapore : Springer,c2022 9789811950247 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The Great Gatsby: A Memory of the Memory -- Light in August: Memory and Identity -- A Streetcar Named Desire: Memory, Self, and Culture -- Gerald?s Party: Embodied Memories and Fluid Identities -- Everything Is Illuminated: Unproductive Memories, Memorization through Fictional Yizker and Dialogic Exchange, and Postmemory -- Against the Day: A Mis/Re-Membered and Re/Imagined Pilgrimage and Hybrid Identities. 330 $aThis 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. . 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aSocial perception 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aReligion and culture 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aSocial Cognition 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aCultural History 606 $aCross-cultural Studies 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aSocial perception. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion and culture. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aSocial Cognition. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aCross-cultural Studies. 676 $a810.8 700 $aGrmusa$b Lovorka Gruic$01258392 702 $aOklopcic$b Biljana 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910595048903321 996 $aMemory and identity in modern and postmodern American literature$93009837 997 $aUNINA