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Author:
Bellamy, Maria Rice, 1968-
Title:
Bridges to memory : postmemory in contemporary ethnic American women's fiction / Maria Rice Bellamy.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xii, 190 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Trauma's ghost -- "A new world song": creating a legacy worth preserving in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "She's all pain, my grandmother": the body in pain in narratives of African American collective postmemory -- "She will remember everything": re-membering the ancestral past in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- "The voiceless gave me voices to speak out": Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman and the construction of Korean American feminist identity -- More than hunter or prey: duality and traumatic memory in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
0813937957
9780813937953
0813937965
9780813937960
OCLC:
(OCoLC)918149590
LCCN:
2015024263
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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