Melancholy and the archive : trauma, memory, and history in the contemporary novel / Jonathan Boulter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulter, Jonathan, 1967-

Series:

Continuum literary studies

Continuum literary studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melancholy in literature.

Memory in literature.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

Boulter (English U. of Western Ontario) argues that the idea of subjectivity without any subject is particularly useful for thinking about subjects as they begin to negotiate a relationship to their memory and history. More specifically, he says, subjects negotiate a relationship to a disastrous history, to a past marked by loss and trauma; they become more than merely individuals reflecting on a particular kind of economy of tragic loss, but a scar of the disaster. His examples are Paul Auster archiving trauma, Haruki Murakami burying history, David Mitchell humanizing history, and Jose Saramago archiving melancholy. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-203) and index.

ISBN:

9781441124128

1441124128

OCLC:

657602812