Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical MemoryUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 23.04.2001 - 242 Seiten In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Peterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing. |
Inhalt
History as Wound | 1 |
Louise Erdrich | 18 |
Toni Morrison and the Desire for | 51 |
Remembering Holocaust History | 98 |
Joy Kogawa and the Peculiar Logic of Internment | 137 |
History and Healing | 169 |
Notes | 185 |
Bibliography | 221 |
235 | |
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