Amnesia and the Nation
History, Forgetting, and James Joyce
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Beschreibung
This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce’s works—as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Luria, Anderson, and Yerushalmi, this study explores the burden of the past and the “nightmare of history” in Ireland and in the American South—from the Battle of the Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement, from the Civil War to the 2015 Mother Emanuel killings.
This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce’s works—as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Luria, Anderson, and Yerushalmi, this study explores the burden of the past and the “nightmare of history” in Ireland and in the American South—from the Battle of the Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement, from the Civil War to the 2015 Mother Emanuel killings.
Provides a timely and wide-ranging approach to Joyce through discussions of memory studies, cultural trauma, and history Connects Joyce to a larger cultural context including the historical memory of William III and the history of racism in the American South Challenges the negative notions of forgetting in order to explore the historical memory within the works of James Joyce
Autor*in
Vincent J. Cheng
Themen in »Amnesia and the Nation«
James Joyce Ulysses Cultural Memory National identity formation Racism in the American South Good Friday Agreement Battle of the Boyne national trauma Dylann Roof Charleston Church shooting Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church the past and Milan Kundera Renan and forgetting Nietzsche and forgetting "the burden of memory"
Stimmen zu »Amnesia and the Nation«
“Cheng’s thoughtful, meticulously researched, and clearly articulated study has succeeded in bringing into sharp relief all the complexities-virtues and dangers-of both remembering and forgetting.” (Jolanta Wawrzycka, James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 57 (3-4), 2020)
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