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Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction

Narratives of East-Central European Immigrant Experience

Marta Koval author Tomasz Basiuk editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:12th Oct '21

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Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon. The analysis of selected novels highlights a distinct historical slant with elements of generational memory, memory of places, rememory, and postmemory. The author introduces and develops the concept of post-immigrant ethnic fiction and identifies a mnemonic pattern characteristic of American post-immigrant ethnic and exile writing.

ISBN: 9783631850787

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 307g

178 pages

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