TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marta Koval
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-2254
SN  - 9783631867303
TI  - Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction
T2  - Narratives of East-Central European Immigrant Experience
DO  - 10.3726/b19064
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1142502
N2  - Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon. The analysis of selected novels highlights a distinct historical slant with elements of generational memory, memory of places, rememory, and postmemory. The author introduces and develops the concept of post-immigrant ethnic fiction and identifies a mnemonic pattern characteristic of American post-immigrant ethnic and exile writing.
KW  - Generation, Place Memory, Trauma, Forgetting, Silence, Nostalgia
LA  - English
ER  -