Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction
This book primarily focuses on the concept of forgetting, with particular emphasis on how we can trace the forgotten in contemporary life writing and memory texts. It consists of two main parts: the first concentrates on life writing in particular and wha
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palgrave macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Series Editors Andrew Hoskins University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom John Sutton Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University Macquarie, Australia
Aim of the series The nascent field of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from ‘what we know’ to ‘how we remember it’; changes in generational memory; the rapid advance of technologies of memory; panics over declining powers of memory, which mirror our fascination with the possibilities of memory enhancement; and the development of trauma narratives in reshaping the past. These factors have contributed to an intensification of public discourses on our past over the last thirty years. Technological, political, interpersonal, social and cultural shifts affect what, how and why people and societies remember and forget. This groundbreaking new series tackles questions such as: What is ‘memory’ under these conditions? What are its prospects, and also the prospects for its interdisciplinary and systematic study? What are the conceptual, theoretical and methodological tools for its investigation and illumination?
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14682
Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir
Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction
Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir University of Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland
ISBN 978-1-137-59863-9 ISBN 978-1-137-59864-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59864-6
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