Memory and Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Ghosts of the Past in the English-speaking World
Redaktion: Pillière, Linda; Bigand, Karine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000768459
• Artikelnr.: 66244517

Autorenporträt

Linda Pillière is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She is the co-editor of Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language and Standardisation and Variation in English Language(s) and author of Intralingual Translation of British Novels: A Multimodal Stylistic Perspective. Karine Bigand is Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has recently co-authored Faces and Places. Northern Ireland, 1975-2020.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Shackled identities Chapter 1. Ghosts of the Past and
the Oxford English Dictionary Chapter 2. The Invisible American Shoeshine
Boy: Creation and Persistence of a Ghostly Icon 3. Australian Ghosts:
Representations of the Past in Australia 4. Ghosts from the Future:
Post-Apocalyptic Narratives in Scotland and the Displacement of Memory
Part 2: Multi-layered identities 5. Ghosting the Victorians in A.S. Byatt,
Kate Atkinson and Michèle Roberts's neo-Victorian fiction 6. Whose Past is
it Before Us? The Shaping of Identity in Scotland's 2014 Referendum on
Independence 7. Haunted by the Lessons of 'the Good War': Post-Cold War
Contestation of World War II Narratives Part 3: Reclaimed identities 8.
Haunting in a Postcolony: Race, Place and Intergenerational Trauma on a
South African Campus 9. First World War Memorial Ghosts and the Reshaping
of South African Identity: Remembering the SS Mendi in Delville Wood 10.
Blyton's Ghosts: Childhood Receptions in India and Britain 11. Decolonial
Poetics: Ghosts of Coloniality, Capitalism, and Care in Contemporary
Anglophone Literature