Synthesis Issue 2, Fall 2010
http://www.enl.uoa.gr/synthesis/issue2.htm
ISSN 1791-5155
Configurations of Cultural Amnesia
Issue editors: Apostolos Lampropoulos and Vassiliki Markidou
Apostolos Lampropoulos and Vassiliki Markidou
Introduction: Configuring Cultural Amnesia
Alison Findlay
'Though it be not written down, yet forget not':
Cultural Amnesia in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Josh Cohen
Amnesiac Passages: Melville, Blanchot and the Question of Psychoanalytic Reading
Patrick ffrench
Writing Amnesia in Hervé Guibert's Le Paradis
Anna Hunter
The Amnesiac Consciousness of the Contemporary Holocaust Novel:
Lily Brett's Too Many Men and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated
Debra Kelly
Figures of Memory and Forgetting in French Second World War Memoirs:
The Lost Manuscript, the 'Handwritingness' of History and the Broken Narrative
By way of Afterword
Apostolos Lampropoulos
Spelling out amnesia, or "forgetting me on the pretext of understanding me"
Featured interview
Forgetting, Amnesia, Theory: An interview with Jean-Michel Rabaté
by Apostolos Lampropoulos
Book reviews
Eleftheria Arapoglou:
Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas,
by Joseph A. Young and Jana Evans Braziel, eds.
Antonis Balasopoulos:
Excess Baggage: A Modern Theory and the Conscious Amnesia of Latin Americanist Thought,
by Jonathan Pitcher
Evangelos Roumeliotis:
Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America,
by Benzi Zhang