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Bridges to memory : postmemory in contemporary ethnic American women's fiction
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Bridges to memory : postmemory in contemporary ethnic American women's fiction / Maria Rice Bellamy.
ISBN
9780813937953
0813937957
9780813937960
0813937965
9780813937977
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Physical Description
xii, 190 pages ; 24 cm
Variant and related titles
Postmemory in contemporary ethnic American women's fiction
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Trauma's ghost
"A new world song": creating a legacy worth preserving in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
"She's all pain, my grandmother": the body in pain in narratives of African American collective postmemory
"She will remember everything": re-membering the ancestral past in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban
"The voiceless gave me voices to speak out": Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman and the construction of Korean American feminist identity
More than hunter or prey: duality and traumatic memory in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker
Conclusion.
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