portada melancholy and the archive (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jonathan Boulter

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.1x15.5x1.5 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN

1623569923

ISBN13

9781623569921

Categorías

Literatura: historia y crítica
Filosofía occidental desde 1800, aproximadamente

melancholy and the archive (en Inglés)

Jonathan Boulter (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Blanda

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Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.