Title: Literatures of memory : history, time and space in postwar writing
Abstract: Part 1: postmodernism and the death of the past - history and postmodernity, everyday practices of history, fear of the past the ethics of historical fiction - postmodernism and historical fiction, postmodern history and ethics memory's realism -metamemory in Pat Barker's Regeneration, identity and trauma, social memory practising spacetime - the relativistic physics of memory - Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, science and social time, making time for diversity, the spatialization of history. Part 2: staged histories - radical theatre in Britain and America, 1968-1988 - staging history, Hammering on the Pipes of the Tenement -David Hare and Howard Brenton, agitprop versus realist history -John McGrath, herstories - Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker, African-American theatre - August Wilson poetry as memory - the autobiographical lyric in contemporary British and American poetry - Sarah Maguire - Spilt Milk, Robert Creeley -I Keep to Myself Such Measures, Jorie Graham - What the End is For, Lyn Hejinian - Yet We Insist that is Full of Happy Chance, from My Life histories of the future - American science fiction after the Second World War - the future's relation to the present, governing the future - Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy fictional cities and urban spaces - contemporary fiction and representations of the city - architects of theoretical and social space, Thomas Pynchon's urban imaginary in The Crying of Lot 49, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, simulation city.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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