TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dorr, Maria Elisabeth
T1  - Collapsible spaces and distant storyworlds in (trans-)cultural memory studies
T2  - Journal of aesthetics & culture
N2  - Rebecca Walkowitz’s observation that contemporary novels tend to be “born translated” involves the notion that they equally tend to be “born in motion”; they are often already, conceptually, on the road to faraway readers during their moments of conception. A first, more narrowly defined objective of my essay is to examine the narrative strategies used in Dave Eggers’s What Is the What (2007) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) that facilitate and respond to this dimension of motion in particular travels of memory. In a broader scope, this analysis will be embedded into an appraisal of the potentials of recent theorizing both in narratology (i.e. the study of narrative) and in memory studies to understand the dynamics at play in the reception of far-travelled narrative memory media. It is a central proposition of this essay that the two research fields share an amplitude of common concerns with regard to questions of reception and should therefore be brought into a close dialogue. The present study explores how some of these intersections between narratology and memory studies can be approached through the notions of “distance” and “proximity.”
KW  - memory studies
KW  - narratology
KW  - space
KW  - distance and proximity
KW  - storyworld
KW  - nomadic texts
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53198
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531988
SN  - 2000-4214
N1  - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 11
IS  - Article: 1644129
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London
ER  -