De-silencing the Past: Postmemory and Reparative Writing in Selected Works by African-American Women Writers
Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory implies a connection with the past that is indirect, mediated by the imagination and desire, transmitted to descendants or generations that have no memory of the traumatic event, but it can also entail a possible yearning to reconnect with the historical past...
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| description | Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory implies a connection with the past that is indirect, mediated by the imagination and desire, transmitted to descendants or generations that have no memory of the traumatic event, but it can also entail a possible yearning to reconnect with the historical past as testimony, remembering and collective memory. This article focuses on this reconnection with the past with the aim of reading, questioning and analyzing traumatic memories of times past in selected works by four nineteenth and twentieth-century African American women writers (Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison) whose texts and characters carry the burden of traumatic memories and the will to share postmemories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b2864f6b842b4511a7710c35c9de33cf2023-06-29T12:15:05ZengEdições Afrontamento, Lda.Ex Aequo: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres0874-55602184-03852023-06-0147https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2023.47.06De-silencing the Past: Postmemory and Reparative Writing in Selected Works by African-American Women WritersOrquídea Moreira Ribeiro0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7665-9627Centro de Estudos em Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal / Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, PortugalMarianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory implies a connection with the past that is indirect, mediated by the imagination and desire, transmitted to descendants or generations that have no memory of the traumatic event, but it can also entail a possible yearning to reconnect with the historical past as testimony, remembering and collective memory. This article focuses on this reconnection with the past with the aim of reading, questioning and analyzing traumatic memories of times past in selected works by four nineteenth and twentieth-century African American women writers (Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison) whose texts and characters carry the burden of traumatic memories and the will to share postmemories. postmemoryslave narrativesafrican american women writersreparative writingtrauma |
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| title | De-silencing the Past: Postmemory and Reparative Writing in Selected Works by African-American Women Writers |
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