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050 00 PS153.M56 |bP48 2001
100 1  Peterson, Nancy J.
245 10 Against amnesia : |bcontemporary women writers and the crises of historical memory / |cNancy J. Peterson.
264  1 Philadelphia : |bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, |c[2001]
264  4  |c©2001
300    viii, 242 pages ; |c23 cm.
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
490 1  Penn studies in contemporary American fiction
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
505 0  History as wound -- "Haunted America": Louise Erdrich and Native American history -- Toni Morrison and the desire for a "genuine Black history book" -- Remembering Holocaust history -- Joy Kogawa and the peculiar "logic" of internment.
520 1  "In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesio and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Perterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing." "Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdich, Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawo, and other contemporary women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover and represent the historical memories attached to their racial/ethnic backgrounds. Their works probe traumatic moments in the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery, migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories. At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to narrate resonant counterhistories. Rejecting the playfully imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate historical memory in contemporary American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
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650  0 American literature |xMinority authors |xHistory and criticism.
650  0 Literature and history |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Women and literature |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 American literature |xWomen authors |xHistory and criticism.
650  0 American literature |y20th century |xHistory and criticism.
600 10 Klepfisz, Irena, |d1941- |xCriticism and interpretation.
650  0 Minority women |zUnited States |xIntellectual life.
600 10 Erdrich, Louise |xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 Morrison, Toni |xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 Kogawa, Joy |xCriticism and interpretation.
650  0 Minority women in literature.
650  0 Ethnic groups in literature.
650  0 Minorities in literature.
650  0 Memory in literature.
830  0 Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
852 0   |bstacks |hPS153.M56 |iP48 2001