Vincent J. Cheng

Amnesia and the Nation

History, Forgetting, and James Joyce

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-10117-6
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9783030101176
• ISBN-10: 3030101177
• Artikelnr.: 55265517

Autorenporträt

Vincent J. Cheng is Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English at the University of Utah, USA.  He is the author of many scholarly articles and books, including Inauthentic: The Anxiety Over Culture and Identity ; Joyce, Race, and Empire ; and Shakespeare and Joyce.  His work addresses the intersections of postcolonial studies, race studies, twentieth-century literature, and contemporary culture.   

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"Cheng's thoughtful, meticulously researched, and clearly articulated study has succeeded in bringing into sharp relief all the complexities-virtues and dangers-of both remembering and forgetting." (Jolanta Wawrzycka, James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 57 (3-4), 2020)