Amnesia and the Nation
Subtitle: History, Forgetting, and James Joyce
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 31, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9783319718170
Description: 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 Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement, from the Civil War to the 2015 Mother Emanuel killings--back cover.
Notes: Source title: Amnesia and the Nation: History, Forgetting, and James Joyce (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)