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MELANCHOLY AND THE ARCHIVE
TRAUMA, HISTORY AND MEMORY IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVEL |
| By: |
Jonathan Boulter |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£110.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441124128 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441124128 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
19 May, 2011 |
| Pages: |
218 |
| Description: |
An analysis of the relationship between memory, history and the protocols of mourning in key novels by Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, David Mitchell, and, Haruki Murakami. It explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, and various losses. |
| Synopsis: |
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 memoryGCothe archive becomes a central trope hereGCoand the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archiveGCobe it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)GCobecomes 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. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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