Collapsible spaces and distant storyworlds in (trans-)cultural memory studies
- 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.”
Author: | Maria Elisabeth Dorr |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531988 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2019.1644129 |
ISSN: | 2000-4214 |
Parent Title (German): | Journal of aesthetics & culture |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/12/24 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/12/24 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/04/30 |
Tag: | distance and proximity; memory studies; narratology; nomadic texts; space; storyworld |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | Article: 1644129 |
Page Number: | 7 |
Note: | 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. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 465084087 |
Institutes: | Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Neuere Philologien |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |