Wydawnictwo:	Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
Rodzaj oprawy:	Okładka broszurowa (miękka)
Liczba stron:	222
Format:	170x240mm
Rok wydania:	2014

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O książce Forgetful Recollections: Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canadian Literature

The present study is an attempt to explore the position of the memory and postmemory of Central and Eastern Europe in contemporary Canadian literature. The analysis is inspired by Simona Skrabec’s concept of the 20thcentury Central Europe seen as diverse and evolving “space of dispersion.” In this context, the book situates the novels and memoirs, published in Canada at the turn of the 20th and 21st century and written by immigrants and their descendants from Central and Eastern Europe, as the texts which try to recreate the images of ‘Old Places” filtered through the experience of living in transcultural Canada. The analyses of the selected texts by Janice Kulyk Keefer, Lisa Appignanesi, Irena F. Karafilly, Anne Michaels, Norman Rawin, and Eva Stachniak are predominantly based on Marianne Hirsch’s idea of “postmemory” and Pierre Nora’s “liewc de mémoire". These two concepts capture the broad spectrum of attitudes to the past, remembering and forgetting, and sites of memory as exemplified in the discussed texts. While all of the chosen novels and memoirs explore the problem of post/memory and un/belonging caused by immigration, poverty, and the trauma of World War ?, they try to address the question of identity of immigrants (or their descendants) created on the border between the memory and postmemory of the past and the contemporary reality of transcultural Canada. As a result of this, the post/memory and the recreated after/images of Central and Eastern Europe offer both therapy and consolation as well as testimony to the past and its sites of memory.

Szczegółowe informacje na temat książki Forgetful Recollections: Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canadian Literature

Wydawnictwo:	Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
EAN:	9788323227779
Autor:	Dagmara Drewniak
Rodzaj oprawy:	Okładka broszurowa (miękka)
Liczba stron:	222
Format:	170x240mm
Rok wydania:	2014
Podmiot odpowiedzialny:	Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Ul. Fredry 10 61-701 Poznań PL e-mail: [email protected]