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Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers a means of bearing witness to past cultural or political struggles, and hence of contributing to new forms of cultural memory.Most discussion of autofiction has treated it as an individualistic form, dealing with the personal growth of its authors. In doing so, it privileges narratives of private development over those of social commitment and accords with Western concepts of ownership and authorship. By contrast, Hywel Dix shows how a variety of writers outside the Western world have used the techniques of autofiction in a different way, placing themselves on the side lines of their own stories to show solidarity with struggles against imperialism and tyranny.Drawing on examples from Algeria, Ethiopia, the Caribbean, the Americas, India and Turkey, Dix presents autofiction as a form which combines the life stories of authors with the collective struggles of their societies to restore to view historical injustices that have been marginalised and forgotten. By contributing to new forms of cultural memory, autofiction raises important questions about what we choose to remember and what we value in the present. This book will be of interest to anyone working in postcolonial studies, world literature, trauma studies, autobiography, life writing or social justice.

Autobiographical fiction --- Collective memory and literature --- History and criticism

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"This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focusing on a range of landmark comics from the 20th and 21st centuries, the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing testimony, particularly in relation to underprivileged subjects such as migrants and refugees, individuals dealing with war and oppressive regimes, and individuals living with particular health conditions."--

Graphic novels --- Collective memory and literature. --- Memory in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Collective memory and literature --- Memory in literature --- History and criticism --- Graphic novels - History and criticism

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Les réflexions sur les mémoires et les lieux de mémoire sont l'enchaînement d'un double mouvement de l'histoire contemporaine : d'une part, il s'agit de faire vivre et revivre les événements historiques et sociohistoriques à travers la pluralité des mémoires. Dans cette perspective, la littérature se présente comme le lieu par excellence de la mise en écriture et de la confrontation des différentes mémoires. D'autre part, nous assistons à une sorte de sécurisation de la mémoire à travers les commémorations et l'édification des lieux censés incarner une ou plusieurs mémoires. Le présent ouvrage rassemble 12 contributions sur des questions aussi diverses que les lieux de mémoire, la mémoire individuelle et collective, la mémoire communicative et culturelle, la mémoire croisée et l'écriture de la mémoire. Les contributions qui couvrent les champs francophone, lusophone et germanophone reflètent l'intérêt inter- et transdisciplinaire de ce questionnement : elles cherchent à rendre compte de l'expérience des écrivains contemporains à travers une écriture de l'histoire, de la violence et du quotidien.

Collective memory in literature --- Collective memory and literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Literature, Modern --- Comparative literature

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Collective memory and literature --- Nationalism --- South Asian literature (English) --- History and criticism.

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"Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault, Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among a host of others. Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums--such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call "cultural memory." Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically."--Bloomsbury Publishing. "A deep contribution to literary theory that champions the virtues of thinking in common--that is, cultural imagination--and the ethical power of art"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Art and morals. --- Collective memory and literature. --- Literature and morals. --- Literature --- Philosophy.