- Summary
- "This book primarily focuses on the concept of forgetting, with particular emphasis on how we can trace the forgotten in contemporary life writing and memory texts. It consists of two main parts: the first concentrates on life writing in particular and what the author calls 'scenes of forgetting'; the second examines both fiction and autobiographies that deal with questions of collective memory/forgetting. The book's principal aim is to map methods and strategies writers employ when writing the forgotten--it argues that forgetting is a constant companion in any memory text and plays a decisive role in the memory work performed in the texts."--Page 4 of cover.
- Series
- Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn, author.
- Published
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Contents
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Writing the Forgotten
pt. I Scenes of Forgetting in Life Writing
2. Forewords and Forgettings: Introductions and Preambles in Autobiography
3. Forgetting and the Writing Moment: Corrections and Family Archives
4. Forgetting Online: Self-representation on Social Network Sites
pt. II Past Recovered
5. Excavating a Troubled Past: Spanish Memory Texts
6. Forgetting as Disguise: Memory Debates of Occupation
7. Inheritance of Forgetting: Narratives of Postmemory
8. Coda: Aide de memoire or Aide Doubli: Forgetting with Photographs.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Writing the Forgotten -- pt. I Scenes of Forgetting in Life Writing -- 2. Forewords and Forgettings: Introductions and Preambles in Autobiography -- 3. Forgetting and the Writing Moment: Corrections and Family Archives -- 4. Forgetting Online: Self-representation on Social Network Sites -- pt. II Past Recovered -- 5. Excavating a Troubled Past: Spanish Memory Texts -- 6. Forgetting as Disguise: Memory Debates of Occupation -- 7. Inheritance of Forgetting: Narratives of Postmemory -- 8. Coda: Aide de memoire or Aide Doubli: Forgetting with Photographs.
