.... This article thus reflects on the political and social responsibilities implied by such poetry’s inscription of history as exemplary cultural memory, with particular attention to transnational connection and environmental justice. Famine memory is inscribed iconographically as “postmemory” (to adapt Marianne...

... Yugoslavia, other Eastern Bloc nations, and the capitalist United States, while also rendering Cold War epistemologies culturally manageable for his US audience. Prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Novakovich’s memory of the day the president was shot exemplifies his...

... connections between Bulgaria and the United States, Vapnyar develops deterritorialized memories about the Soviet past, and Hemon articulates relational forms of (reverse) mirroring between the United States and the former Yugoslavia. Their texts do not serve as transparent windows, forms of cultural brokerage...

..., but in doing so she raises questions not only of individuals’ and their larger culture’s avoidance but also of their memories. In other words, Woolf’s evocations of glass still alert us in a sense to the war’s absence, but now that absence is not a matter of its being over there as much as it is its being...

.... Bush’s split reaction had its basis in a simultaneous desire to blame his ideological antagonists and at the same time to maintain his administration’s careful containment and co-optation of the civil rights movement and in particular the cultural memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Following Marita...

... Afrocentric cultural memory. The traditional griotte functions as a “transmitter of a shared past,” narrating family genealogies more than the epic genealogies associated with the griot (117). This role is most notable in the preface to We a BaddDDD People , where Sanchez celebrates the heroism of black...

.... Indeed, Cannon (2013 : 304) suggests that “this literary cultural memory of the Holocaust [had] not existed until Williams’s creation of it with Clifford’s Blues .” Together with Lusane’s Hitler’s Black Victims , it retrieves “a Black presence” that, as Lusane (2001 : 4) puts it, has been “mystified...

... and Revision in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora .” African American Review 44 , no. 3 : 409 – 20 . Griffiths Jennifer . 2006 . “ Uncanny Spaces: Trauma, Cultural Memory, and the Female Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior .” Studies in the Novel 38 , no. 3...

...” (“Brains” 39). James Merrill’s offhand account of declining memory in neurological terms, the materialist philosophy of mind that it betokens, and the “cognitive turn” in literary criticism are all symptoms of the brain sciences’ transforming impact upon the cultural imaginary over the past sixty...

... cultural memories of the war” (23). More convincingly, her intertextual reading of Four Quartets alongside Eliot’s wartime propaganda pieces significantly amplifies the Quartets’ political resonances by foregrounding their embedded argument for US intervention and teasing out...

... and All, playfully annihilated the world and then reassembled it precisely as it had been, in every muddy and transcendent detail—except without allusion or quotation, without cultural memory, and thus, he hoped, with the possibility of a genuinely new beginning. For these writers...

... remembrances, cultural or national memory fre­ quently struggles to preserve a sense of identity by excluding or abjecting memories for which it cannot or will not account. Most critical studies of this novel emphasize the relationship between Jim and Antonia, seeing Antonia as, in one way or another...

...” (5-6). While his focus is largely on the personal encounter with domestic space—the memories we bring to domestic space through our childhood experiences—Bachelard also more broadly speaks to the ways domestic spaces function as repositories for cultural memory; the narratives of protection...

... defines sites of memory as members of a collection of memorial objects, institutions, functions and symbols that owe their recent proliferation to an emergent culture of the archive, one that has permanently altered the relations between memory and history—notably, to memory’s detriment.14...

..., of life, and a broadly hopeful one, ideologically progressive, that was committed to suppressing, or even, conquering death. The first of the despairing discourses that Nightwood ’s morbid vitalism incorporates arose around cultural memories of the mass death of the Great War. Published almost two...

... clarified sense of the importance of tradition, particularly linguistic tradition, in the social utility of verse drama” (44). Similarly, Query sees Yeats’s fascination with verse drama as a way for the poet to “gather … in key elements of European cultural memory” while also “questioning the future...

..., correspondences, and interventions (divine and human) that kept the universe in movement” (39). Unlike archival cultures, cultures with performative traditions do not ossify a certain set of facts into a single, immutable interpretation of an event, but rather create communal memory through participation...

... of that trope with the aura of a nonce coinage, the symbolist poem welcomes and indeed relies on its reader’s cultural memory of symbolic tenors, reveling in its connection to poetic tradition even as it expands the purview of poetic content. Compare, for example, 93 Jason M. Coats Pound’s rather...

...). And finally, Matthew’s extensive cartography of the “night” allegorizes the melancholic process by which the map of the “day” is drawn: collective knowledge, history, cultural memory become the performative accrual of stitched patterns covering over the dead and the disavowed. The cartographies...

... function as a neutral medium by offering unbiased descriptors of a belligerent world. 18 The Free State’s “neutral language” was enforced by a draconian censorship board, whose impact remains vivid in Ireland’s literary history and cultural memory. 19 In the thoroughly peculiar language of Watt...