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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulter, Jonathan, 1967- author.

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:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 memory the archive becomes a central trope here and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami) becomes the means by which the self attempts to pr

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: The Material Archive

1. Archiving Trauma: Paul Auster

2. Burying History: Haruki Murakami

Part II: The Imaginary Archive

3. Humanizing History: David Mitchell

4. Archiving Melancholy: Jose Saramago

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786613114204

9781441185358

1441185356

9781472542632

1472542630

9781283114202

1283114208

9781441152169

1441152164

OCLC:

726734878