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050 00 $aPS153.M56$bP48 2001
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100 1 $aPeterson, Nancy J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97042457
245 10 $aAgainst amnesia :$bcontemporary women writers and the crises of historical memory /$cNancy J. Peterson.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $aviii, 242 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPenn studies in contemporary American fiction
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tHistory as Wound --$g2.$t"Haunted America": Louise Erdrich and Native American History.$tThe Wounds of History in Tracks.$t"Native" Voices.$tRighting History in The Bingo Palace --$g3.$tToni Morrison and the Desire for a "Genuine Black History Book"$tThe Black Book and African American History.$tThe (Im)Possibility of Historical Recovery in Beloved.$tJazz and Collective Rememory.$t"Deafened By the Roar of Its Own History": Paradise --$g4.$tRemembering Holocaust History.$tThe Museum on the Mall.$tIrena Klepfisz: From Mourning to Remembrance --$g5.$tJoy Kogawa and the Peculiar "Logic" of Internment.$tHistory and Hysteria.$tObasan: A History of Trauma.$tEpilogue: History and Healing.
520 1 $a"In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesio and nostalgia that characterize mainstream North American culture, Perterson examines the struggles toward collective memory in a wealth of contemporary women's writing.".
520 8 $a"Peterson's in-depth analyses of selected works by Louise Erdich, Toni Morrison, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawo, and other contemporary women writers illustrate the ways in which these authors recover and represent the historical memories attached to their racial/ethnic backgrounds.
520 8 $aTheir works probe traumatic moments in the marginalized histories of minority peoples, including Native American genocide and dispossession; African American slavery, migration, and displacement; the Holocaust; and the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Peterson contends that these writers employ literary strategies that call attention to the gaps and silences of official histories. At the same time, these literary strategies allow the authors to narrate resonant counterhistories.
520 8 $aRejecting the playfully imaginative treatment of history found in typical postmodern novels, these contemporary women writers seek to reconstruct historical narratives in their texts and thereby reinvigorate historical memory in contemporary American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101053
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129906
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113456
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101049
600 10 $aKlepfisz, Irena,$d1941-$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aErdrich, Louise$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aMorrison, Toni$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aKogawa, Joy$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aEthnic groups in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004076
650 0 $aMinorities in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085827
650 0 $aMemory in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083503
830 0 $aPenn studies in contemporary American fiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86703758
852 00 $bglx$hPS153.M56$iP48 2001
852 00 $bbar$hPS153.M56$iP48 2001