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“If It No Go So, It Go Near So”: Marlon James and Collective Memory
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
... their names if they have already entered history or journalism—if, in other words, they are already part of a shared imagination. But there is a difference between the local Jamaican and global collective memories, a difference that determines which people keep their names and how people are remembered...
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The Memory of the Book: The Particular Bodies of Daniel Deronda
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 438–452.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and space that it details, the essay develops a concept of “book memory” that, in a much more personal way than the larger field of “book history,” indexes the affective investment of an individual reader in a particular copy of a book. As a particular book bears the traces of a reader's individual...
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National Myth, Transnational Memory: Ondaatje's Archival Method
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Novel (2012) 45 (2): 257–275.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and reinscription within transnational geographies of memory that both expand the number of groups that may lay claim to these legends and trouble the boundaries among those groups. In this way, Ondaatje's novels show us how to begin remapping communal pasts in response to the demands of global collectivity...
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Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout’s L’invention du désert
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 320–341.
Published: 01 November 2008
... . “A Brief Response.” Social Text 17 ( 1987 ): 26 –27. Kapur , Geeta . “Globalisation and Culture.” Third Text 39 ( 1997 ): 21 –38. Lazarus , Neil . “Fredric Jameson on ‘Third-World Literature’: A Qualified Defence.” Homer and Kellner 42 –61. Nora , Pierre . “Between Memory...
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Invoking Totalitarianism: Liberal Democracy versus the Global Jihad in Boualem Sansal's the German Mujahid
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 108–131.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Peace Prize, The German Mujahid , I argue, reproduces this new iteration of Islamist totalitarianism in novel form, triangulating memory of the 1994 civil war in Algeria and memory of the Holocaust along with contemporary representations of radical Islam in Europe. Yet for a novel so concerned...
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Bad Timing and Ulysses' s Failed Jokes
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 424–437.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Bloch's term) at odds with the rhetorical forms of joking that are more usually associated with anticipation and futurity. The anteriority of the novel's joking is a reminder of the cultural memory in which Dublin is steeped; historical grievances, which in many ways determine each character's private...
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Remembering the Pleasant Bits: Nostalgia and the Legacies of Modernism
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 132–139.
Published: 01 May 2010
... inclination toward retrospection. Comparable forms of nostalgia for the Edwardian period persist in 1930s fiction and are explored in this essay, along with an inheritance of modernist narrative techniques, in novels including The Memorial, Eyeless in Gaza, A Scots Quair , and Coming Up for Air . The essay...
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Christian Multiculturalism and Unlearned History in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 333–353.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Christopher Douglas Marilynne Robinson's Gilead is a kind of companion volume to Toni Morrison's Beloved, recollecting through tropes of memory the history of American slavery: as with Morrison's novel, these histories are to be productive of contemporary identities. Gilead in particular helps...
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Amnesiac Fiction
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 212–215.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., and British Fiction, 1810-1870
(Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001), pp. 298 + ix, $24.95.
In this tremendously ambitious book, Nicholas Dames argues that to regard memory as
central to the nineteenth-century novel is to enact a form of critical blindness, prompted (to
some extent) by the modernist...
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Nostalgia without Nostalgia
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in the Contemporary Novel . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005 . Nostalgia without Nostalgia
linda m. austin, Nostalgia in Transition: 1780–1917 (Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2007),
pp. 248, cloth, $39.50.
As a problem of memory, nostalgia figures prominently in recent work...
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Altered States
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 505–508.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Jonathan Loesberg MATUS JILL L. , Shock, Memory, and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction ( New York : Cambridge UP , 2009 ), pp. 264 , cloth, $72.00 . © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Altered States
jill l. matus, Shock...
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Postmodern Disconnection and the Archive of Bones: Toni Cade Bambara’s Last Work
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 258–280.
Published: 01 November 2002
... LeClair and Larry McCaffery. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1983 : 63 –78. Coover , Robert . The Public Burning . New York: Grove, 1998 . Dixon , Melvin . “The Black Writer’s Use of Memory.” History and Memory in African-American Culture . Ed. Fabre and O’Meally. 18 –27. Dubey...
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This Sand, These Beaches
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 309–311.
Published: 01 November 2007
... around in their heads." A few years earlier, Maurice Halbwachs
published his seminal book La Memoire collective, which made the concept of collective
memory, in dialogue with increasingly complex models of history, one of the mainstays of
literary and culture studies over the past few decades...
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Curiosity as Didacticism in the Old Curiosity Shop
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 28–55.
Published: 01 May 2000
... . Murphy , Peter T. “Climbing Parnassus, and Falling Off: Rogers and The Pleasures of Memory.” The Wordsworth Circle 24 . 3 ( 1993 ): 151 –55. Myers , Mitzi . “Hannah More’s Tracts for the Times: Social Fiction and Female Ideology.” Fetter’d or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670–1815...
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Tolstoy's Selfie
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 128–132.
Published: 01 May 2017
... catalogued his failing to meet those goals. In so doing, he found, as did St. Augustine in his Confessions , that the unity of the self rested on the continuity of time in consciousness, through memory and expectation, which paradoxically seemingly evacuated the present of any reality. Emulating his...
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Visual Storytelling: Cinematic Ekphrasis in the Latin American Novel of Globalization
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 65–71.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to international prominence in
the mid-1990s—is almost entirely a diary-style memoir of childhood, a segmented
series of reflections triggered by a frenetic and almost involuntary act of memory in
which the narrator, a Chilean seismologist raised in Los Angeles but subsequently
estranged from his family...
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Serial Literacy
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 297–301.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Nicholas Dames WINTER SARAH , The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens ( New York : Fordham UP , 2011 ), pp. 455 , cloth, $60.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Jeaffreson John Cordy . Novels and Novelists from...
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Postmodern Historical Narratives
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 319–323.
Published: 01 November 2002
...RICHARD PEARCE NANCY J. PETERSON, Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crisis of Historical Memory, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), pp. 242, cloth, $46.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Postmodern Historical Narratives...
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Scott's Afterlives: Life after Scott
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Michael Gamer Rigney Ann , The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. xvii + 328 , cloth £55.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Scott’s Afterlives: Life after Scott
ann rigney...
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Ticket to a Museum: Reading Orhan Pamuk in Our Times
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 518–546.
Published: 01 November 2022
...; drawing upon different sources, imagination and memory, is surely unprecedented. And as Pamuk points out, the unity achieved by the project(s) owes its success to his undivided authorship of both: “[B]oth are products of my imagination, dreamed up word by word, object by object, and picture by picture...
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