Melancholy and the archive : trauma, memory, and history in the contemporary novel

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    • Boulter, Jonathan

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Melancholy and the archive : trauma, memory, and history in the contemporary novel

Jonathan Boulter

（Continuum literary studies）

Continuum, c2011

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-203) and index

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内容説明

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers (David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago). The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memoryGCothe archive becomes a central trope hereGCoand the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archiveGCobe it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)GCobecomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Material Archive
  • 1. Archiving Trauma: Paul Auster
  • 2. Burying History: Haruki Murakami
  • Part II: The Imaginary Archive
  • 3. Humanizing History: David Mitchell
  • 4. Archiving Melancholy: Jose Saramago
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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