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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 October 2019
... as a type of literary memorial and then posits a different way of reading it as a form of active remembering and traumatic return. The essay also points toward the insights of disability studies and how that framework allows a definition of the human that sees loss as constitutive and hence “normal” rather...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 114–126.
Published: 01 October 2019
.../geront/gns203 . Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 Holocaust survivors dementia memory loss Irene Dische Atom Egoyan It is a verity of Holocaust commemoration in the twenty-first century that the event is turning from one in living memory to one of historical...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 71–85.
Published: 01 October 2019
... by descendants to celebrate the periodic losses. This article illuminates a revolutionary system of Black memory making and transmission. Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 14 Lock, “Building Up from Fragments,” 109 . 15 See Rushdy, “‘Rememory’” ; Hirsch, “Maternity...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of Eurocentric models of trauma to a decolonized theory of trauma. Finally, Sue Vice’s essay on dementia and memory loss confronts the question of the bodily dissolution of the Holocaust witness. The genre of testimony has been, for nearly a century, the primary means of bearing witness to the atrocities...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of their repressed trauma’s intrusive psychological return and from memory loss. 3 The hollowing out of subjectivity by trauma has as its social complement Fredric Jameson’s notion of the waning of affect, in which the draining of creativity and history in the postmodern present leaves only the neutral mimicry...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
... anxiety over forgetting that loss and ending her grieving. She says at one point, "I wanted to have an inconsolable memory," an expression of a desire for her grief strangely to remain forever.6 The story is that during the occupation of France and Nevers, She had fallen in love w ith a German soldier, w...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 7–21.
Published: 01 October 2019
... colonial losses at Hingham (April 20–22). 16 Hobart drew on his colonial information networks and investment in nascent colonial plantations to construct this chronology of losses and memorial topography of colonial trauma. In addition, the towns of “Hingam” and “Weymoth” appeared on an influential 1677...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
... embody the sub-Saharan and Iberian diasporas. Images of ornamental gardens, water, and perfume are all tropes in Andalusian Arabic poetics of loss, which Iberian exiles memorialized in a repertoire of strophic songs that traveled to North Africa. Developing from the mixed orality of peninsular Spain’s...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 September 2005
...). Rather than share his pain with Septem ber 2005 67 his grieving daughter, he spends his days in a restrictive and inhibiting enclosure [. . .] an empty room with memories of absence and loss surrounding him on all sides. 15 Aged fifty-nine, deprived of his companion in life, Berman finds himself unable...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... 14 Murphy, “Destruction and Loss,” 429–32 . 15 In addition to Modernism as Memory , these include James , Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism ; and James-Chakraborty , German Architecture for a Mass Audience . Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 127–132.
Published: 01 October 2019
... children’s vulnerability and potential power. Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 Phillis Wheatley memory elegy representing the dead children Elegy promotes this heightened sense of form’s responsibility to something outside. —Angela Leighton, On Form...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... The storyteller, Skanyatarí:yo John Arthur Gibson, was blind, his sightlessness trained into memory by women and men of his grandparents’ generation who had brought their knowledge and their history from the Haudenosaunee heartland of New York State, at the end of the War of American Independence, up to the Grand...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 146–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
...). Glissant’s “unconscious memory” is a forgotten “chasm” that is “furrowed with fugitive memories” ( PR , 7). There is neither origin nor ground here but only loss and uncertain remembrance. The chasm paradoxically figures an absence that “in the end became knowledge” ( PR , 8). Glissant figures memory as akin...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 189–200.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the transform ation of city and is consonant w ith a thematic o f exile, it may also mark a loss of connection and fidelity: even as the poem engages w ith and represents the deleterious effects of H istory of tem ­ poral Power upon a personal site of memory, it is itself progressively displaced from the space...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 22–42.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and surveillance among the flora and fauna of the region that she paints in the tradition of the Florentine Codex , Rodriguez adds her place-based memories next to those of unhomed people and other human beings who are held outside nationalist confines of belonging. We thus see Rodriguez’s Codex as a polyphonic...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 149–166.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., but once coma and con­ vulsions supervene, 20 to 30 percent of patients do not survive. In patients who do survive the acute phase of the disease, long-term and even permanent cognitive impairment (including memory loss) is often seen. Given that Sub-Saharan Africa was never part of the global malaria...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
...” for herself and for her father ( W , 10). Rather than track “exceptional shock and data loss in the memory and experience of catastrophe,” 24 at stake in these texts is how people respond to systemic crisis; how histories are narrativized and shared; how they are formed and mediated publicly. Berlant...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 143–150.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Pramod K. Nayar Abstract The collage-style merging of histories of oppression in Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan’s A Gardener in the Wasteland is an exercise in memorializing. Here memorialization has its ontological and etiological foundations in the Dalit narratives’ fusion, without...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Jillian Heydt-Stevenson Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 THE LAST RUINS OF PALMYRA JILLIAN HEYDT-STEVENSON "Whoever saw Palmyra remains forever marked by the memory of the city which embodies the dignity of the entire Syrian people and humanity's loftiest...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2010
... celebrated screenings at international festivals,1 Billed as "a trib ­ ute to the w a rrio r saints o f AIDS activism ,"2 the film offers at once a gorgeous, intensely m oving portrait of loss and a w ithering parodie critique of the consolatory and m ythologizing practices associated w ith public rem em...