Naslov
Some Aspects of Memory and History in Recent Native American Fiction: Sherman Alexie's _Flight_

Autori
Šesnić, Jelena

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Crossections. Vol. 2. Selected papers in literature and culture from the 9th HUSSE conference. / Rouse, Andrew, Gertrud Szamosi and Gabriella Voo. - Pečuh : Institute of English Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Universit of Pecs, 2010, 311-322

ISBN
978-963-642-324-7

Skup
HUSSE-9 (Hungarian Association for the Study of English)

Mjesto i datum
Pečuh, Mađarska, 22.01.2009. - 24.01.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
memory; history; trauma; Native American; lieux de memoire

Sažetak
For some time now in the humanities there has been a pronounced interest in the way history and memory are intertwined. Sherman Alexie's, and by extension contemporary US ethnic fiction offers surprising and productive, even though fictional and constructed, ways to reconsider this relationship. In terms of some concepts and procedures borrowed from the studies of trauma, the analysis will go to show how trauma incites memory, how this memory in turn is activated in specific, historically contingent lieux de mémoire (P. Nora) essential for Native American culture in the States, and, furthermore, how they occasion the production of ethnic history as an integral part of the national historical narrative. The reading will principally encompass Sherman Alexie's most recent novel "Flight" (2007).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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