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Bloomsbury Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Continuum Literary Studies)

Name: Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (Continuum Literary Studies)
Brand: Bloomsbury

Literary Theory & Movements

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Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memoryGÇöthe archive becomes a central trope hereGÇöand the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archiveGÇöbe it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)GÇöbecomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1441124128
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 10 May 2011
Listed Since: 30 August 2010

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