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Memory Across Borders: Nabokov, Perec, Chamoiseau

Memory Across Borders: Nabokov, Perec, Chamoiseau

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Series: Transcript, Book 6

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781883513
ISBN13: 9781781883518
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Historical memory emerges through dialogue between one generation and the next. But what happens to this dialogue if the children speak a different language to their parents? Literary autobiography offers a space to explore the potential forms of memory in the aftermath of inter-generational linguistic change triggered by violent histories, such as the Holocaust, the Second World War, or imperialism. Through an exploration of the autobiographies of the Russian-American writer, Vladimir Nabokov, the French novelist and poet, Georges Perec, and the Caribbean author, Patrick Chamoiseau, Cooper offers a reflection on the role of migration and linguistic change in shaping twentieth and twenty-first century approaches to memory.

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