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Seminar 70 The Art of Autobiography / naslov izlaganja: Remembering and Cultural Memory in James Joyce's Semi-autobiographical Novels "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

OPIS SEMINARA 70 The Art of Autobiography: Given the booming interest in the genre of autobiography on both an academic and a popular level, and the ongoing changes in the art of self-representation, this seminar seeks to re-examine some constitutive features of the genre, the advancement and limits of autobiography, and cultural assumptions underlying self-narratives. We will discuss autobiography across cultures, social groups and historical periods. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to various relations between autobiography and: life writing, memory (individual, collective, cultural), confession, identity formation (gendered, hybrid, transnational, etc.), ethnic literature, women's literature, history-making, visual culture (autobiography of artists, visual art in autobiography), the role of the author, authority, authorship ; self-invention ; self-representation ; fiction and truth ; ethics ; the art of lying ; politics of style ; popular culture ; canon, etc. We also welcome papers highlighting these and similar issues in diaries, journals, memoirs, testimonials and fictional autobiographies. SAŽETAK IZLOŽENOG RADA: «Remembering and Cultural Memory in James Joyce's Semi-autobiographical Novels Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man» Taking into consideration recent developments in memory studies, this paper sets out to explore the dynamics between autobiographical and cultural memory in Joyce's semi-autobiographical novels Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. While 'autobiographical' memory operates within the domain of personal memory and, therefore, relies primarily on cognitive faculties, cultural memory operates intersubjectively by various mnemonic and discursive strategies that foster cultural continuity of the collective identity through time. Exploring the interrelation between several mnemonic modes and mnemonic strategies in Joyce's novels my paper aims to prove that it is by focusing on the concept of memory and its functional aspects embodied in various strata of Joyce's novels that we can best illustrate shifts in the symbolic extension from the narrative of the self to the narrative of the nation. It will argue that by examining the role of memory and different mnemonic modes in autobiographical writing we could add significant insights to the debate on the genre, its ontological status and generic properties.

autobiography; memory; identity; culture

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