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Haunting history: Spectral economies...

Novak, Amy Louise.

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Haunting history: Spectral economies of postmodern narratives.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Haunting history: Spectral economies of postmodern narratives./
作者:	Novak, Amy Louise.
面頁冊數:	302 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2493.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-07A.
標題:	Literature, Modern. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9841372
ISBN:	0591954222

Haunting history: Spectral economies of postmodern narratives.
Novak, Amy Louise.

Haunting history: Spectral economies of postmodern narratives. - 302 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-07, Section: A, page: 2493.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 1998.

This dissertation redefines postmodernity and what it means to think historically by uncovering the way memory in postmodern and postcolonial narratives radicalizes what we know of history and how we know history. The study considers how the ruptures in language and narrative form brought about by the insertion of memory creates what I conceive of as a "spectral narrative economy" to challenge the understanding of history as a coherent totality. Drawing together postmodern and postcolonial texts, I demonstrate how postmodern critiques of history are informed by postcolonial efforts to unmask the ideological assumptions which support the structure of Western history. This transnational inquiry demonstrates that reading history according to the contradiction and multiplicity inherent in a "spectral narrative economy" is crucial to the recovery of marginal voices and to re-evaluating Western historical narratives.

ISBN: 0591954222Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Chapter One considers how the repetitive temporality of media images and cultural memories in Don DeLillo's novel Libra prevents the construction of history as a coherent totality by conjuring forth specters which will not be reconciled to the past and which disrupt and unsettle the present. The second chapter analyzes the way the narrative of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient is haunted by the forgotten and erased voices of the past which return as specters who place a demand upon the present to be remembered. Struggling to read these specters, the fragments of memory in the text perform an act of translation that forces history to be thought according to a spectral narrative economy. Next, the project focuses on the spectrality of exile in Ariel Dorfman's The Last Song of Manuel Sendero and Mascara to consider how the exile creates a double haunting which challenges the coherency of history and the homogeneity of the nation. Chapter Four investigates how Michelle Cliff's postcolonial text No Telephone to Heaven proposes the necessity of understanding the performative nature of history as a way to confront the specter of colonialism and to resist its authoritarian narratives of historical truth. The final chapter examines the investigation of memory in such cyberpunk texts as William Gibson's Neuromancer, Jeff Noon's Vurt, and Kathryn Bigelow's film Strange Days. Drawing upon Gibson's notion of "semiotic ghosts" and Noon's concept of "haunting," the analysis explores the possibilities of cybertechnology and virtual memory to create an alternate temporality within the present that contests the authority of history and resists the hypnotic control of the spectacle.
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