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Synthesis n°2: Configurations of Cultural Amnesia

Synthesis n°2: Configurations of Cultural Amnesia

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay (Source : Apostolos Lampropoulos)

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