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- catalog abstract ""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." "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. Their 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. Rejecting 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12104015.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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." "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. Their 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. Rejecting 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "History as wound -- "Haunted America": Louise Erdrich and Native American history -- Toni Morrison and the desire for a "genuine Black history book" -- Remembering Holocaust history -- Joy Kogawa and the peculiar "logic" of internment.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 242 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812235940 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Penn studies in contemporary American fiction".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/920693 21".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Minority authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Erdrich, Louise Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic groups in literature.".
- catalog subject "Klepfisz, Irena, 1941- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Kogawa, Joy Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Memory in literature.".
- catalog subject "Minorities in literature.".
- catalog subject "Minority women United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Minority women in literature.".
- catalog subject "Morrison, Toni Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS153.M56 P48 2001".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "History as wound -- "Haunted America": Louise Erdrich and Native American history -- Toni Morrison and the desire for a "genuine Black history book" -- Remembering Holocaust history -- Joy Kogawa and the peculiar "logic" of internment.".
- catalog title "Against amnesia : contemporary women writers and the crises of historical memory / Nancy J. Peterson.".
- catalog type "text".