Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room

In Man Walks into a Room, a neuronovel staging an amnesiac, Nicole Krauss challenges the memory-identity equation. While she draws on neuroscience, she also writes against it, as she emphasizes the explanatory gap and the problem of qualia. To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its oft...

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Main Author: Pascale Antolin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2021-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17512