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Journal article
Memory Under Reconstruction: Beloved and the Fugitive Past
The Arizona quarterly, Vol.54(4), pp.111-140
12/01/1998
Abstract
Excerpt - Much to the chagrin of its detractors, the legacies of modernism continue to exert their powers in our period of the prolonged "posts-." The burden of those legacies is perhaps felt nowhere more strongly than in the genre of the novel. For if the distinguishing features of what is known as "high modernism" or "utopian modernism" are its preoccupation with the theme of temporality and its faith in the restorative powers of human memory, then the problem of imagining narrative fiction within the context of postmodern thought is a difficult task indeed. What is narrative, if not a representation oftime? What is fiction, if not the collaboration of memory with imagination? Such questions have been the mainstay of postmodernism's novelistic experiments and if those experiments have not necessarily proffered answers to their own inquiries, the energy of their failures has offered its own compensatory rewards.
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- Title
- Memory Under Reconstruction
- Publication Details
- The Arizona quarterly, Vol.54(4), pp.111-140
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 30
- Copyright
- © 1998 by Arizona Board of Regents
- Identifiers
- 99380580132206600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; English
- Language
- English