Overview
- Describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and ‘archaeological’ digging
- Explores how ‘forensic’ literary engagement with the past challenges a forensic paradigm that aims to eliminate the problems related to human testimony through scientific objectivity
- Responds to the observation that certain contemporary literary works that resemble historiographic metafiction are different from that genre in the sense that they engage sincerely with historical events
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Reviews
“Forensic Memory is a major contribution to the field of literary memory studies. It offers a compelling new way of understanding memory literature beyond the aesthetics of testimony. Bøndergaard discusses the recent forensic turn in cultural memory and draws our attention to the ‘forensic mode’ in literature: works that approach the past through detection, analysis, and archaeology. She shows how, at the same time, such literature can uncover the paradoxes inherent in forensics. Forensic Memory is a fascinating read, a timely and very welcome broadening of our perspective on memory and literature – recommended to anyone interested in recent developments in memory culture and memory studies.” (Astrid Erll, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forensic Memory
Book Subtitle: Literature after Testimony
Authors: Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51766-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51765-0Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84735-1Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51766-7Published: 14 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 242
Topics: Cultural Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Memory Studies