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portada Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French
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Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.1 x 16.0 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.59 kg.
ISBN13
9781800854888
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Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French

Sonja Stojanovic (Author) · Liverpool University Press · Hardcover

Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French - Stojanovic, Sonja

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Synopsis "Mind the Ghost: Thinking Memory and the Untimely Through Contemporary Fiction in French"

Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary fiction in French, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readers' investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century - in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda - this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions and untimely irruptions to posit literature's power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Gaël Faye, Jérôme Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Leïla Sebbar, and Cécile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.

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