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Mosaic of History and Memory in Alexander Motyl’s Novel Fall River
The paper discusses Fall River by Alexander Motyl as a novel about history and family saga. The novel entwines the past of 20th-century East-Central Europe with the individual experiences of its protagonists—Mike/Mychasko, Manya, and Stefa. They continue the American history of the family, which started in 1913 when their parents-to-be arrived from Galicia to Fall River, Mass., to leave it for Europe ten years later. The life of the three siblings epitomizes the dramatic history of Eastern Galicia and the pre-and post-WWII Ukrainian immigration to the United States. A small Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish community in the provincial Galician town of Przemyślany, where most of the action takes place, becomes a small-scale version of historical and political conflicts of the 1920s-1940s. The paper draws on Astrid Erll’s theory of cultural memory and Paul Connerton’s concept of forgetfulness to analyze Fall River as part of the Ukrainian cultural memory and explore the role of forgetting in the characters’ identity construction, particularly their new American selves. The historical background that shapes Mike’s, Manya’s, and Stefa’s lives reveals the entanglements of East-Central European history of the first half of the 20th century, of which the American reader knows little if anything, and addresses complex ethnic relations and political dilemmas that were part of the characters’ everyday life. While history is the normative frame of reference in the novel, a sense of home and the awareness of its traumatic loss are some of the centrifugal forces of the story, which determine the characters’ attitudes. They evoke the idea of uprootedness (Weil) and nostalgic memory (Boym), which will be analyzed as an essential part of immigrant narratives.
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AUTOFIGURACIONES: DE LA FICCIÓN AL PACTO DE NO FICCIÓN
Beginning with a conception of literary genre as the result of empty boxes that literary creation imposes on theory as a challenge, this study attempts to move forward in a different way to that of what is known as Autofiction. Among what I now call Autofigurations, I list some very present in current literature which, starting from the Grief Memoir, develop a pathos on which they ask to be read as non-fictional. The second part of the study develops this thesis that not every imaginary invention asks to be read as fiction, pointing out mechanisms of reference, such as photographs, that want to escape from the prison of language. Based on Bakhtin's concept of the external chronotope, it is clear that any decision on fiction/non-fiction in self-figurations must be made pragmatically. In works such as those analysed, there are non-fictional pacts which, unlike fictional ones, allow us to formulate, from what I call the autobiographical-you, possible objections to forgetfulness, silences or mendacities.
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Presencia y desafíos de los personajes femeninos en la obra narrativa de Marisa Silva Schultze: exilio, memoria y olvido 1/Presence and challenges of famale characters in the novel of Marisa Silva Schultze: exile, memory and forgetfulness
Marisa Silva Schultze (Montevideo, 1956) is an illustrative example of the experience of exile in Europe as a result of military repression in the 1970s and 1980s in Latin America. His autobiographical fiction novel, Just Ten (2006), tells the life of an Uruguayan family who lives the reunion of three generations, grandmother, daughter and granddaughter, and each one perceives reality according to their life experiences. Andrea visits her maternal family in Montevideo where she lived for three years and then exiled with her mother to Sweden to live a life freed from the pain of the past. The opposition memory vs. oblivion articulates the point of view of all the characters. Andrea decides to return to the European society in which she has been able to develop her life, with music being the space of her personal fulfillment.
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THE MEMORY ADDICTS
A virus-induced plague causes mass forgetfulness in a colony of Virginians in a literary SF novel by poet, essayist, and playwright Kannemeyer (An Alphabestiary, 2018, etc.).
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Forgetfulness
* Just, Ward. Forgetfulness. Sept. 2006. 272p. Houghton, $25 (0-618-63463-0). General Fiction.
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The Tree of Forgetfulness
[Pam Durban] explores memory, race relations, and moral responsibility in her beautifully written and complex new novel. At the center is the horrific murder of three African Americans in Aiken, South Carolina, in 1926, murders for which no one was punished.
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