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Facing texts: Autobiographical reckonings with the Second World War in Woolf, H.D., Duras, and Perec.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Facing texts: Autobiographical reckonings with the Second World War in Woolf, H.D., Duras, and Perec./
Author:	Spiro, Joanna Emily.
Description:	231 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-11, Section: A, page: 4732.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9714308
ISBN:	0591220903

Facing texts: Autobiographical reckonings with the Second World War in Woolf, H.D., Duras, and Perec.
Spiro, Joanna Emily.

Facing texts: Autobiographical reckonings with the Second World War in Woolf, H.D., Duras, and Perec. - 231 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-11, Section: A, page: 4732.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1996.

The dissertation examines the predicament of writers who attempt to come to terms with the Second World War through the work of autobiography. I argue that in Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past," H.D.'s "Writing on the Wall," Marguerite Duras's "La douleur," and Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance, narrations of wartime experience encounter autobiographical impossibilities, as crucial events prove inaccessible to memory or resistant to available forms of representation. These memoirs must take on contradictory tasks: to preserve crucial and formative memories, and to expel memory that maintains the potential to disrupt identity. I elucidate narrative strategies that allow these memoirs to accommodate the charged and unassimilable material of wartime and Holocaust memory: the use of texts of unconscious origin (dreams, visions, and fantasies), which serve to encode and estrange disruptive memories, and the presentation of parallel narratives (the "facing texts" of my title) which allow fragmented aspects of the self to encounter each other on the page. A powerful ambivalence toward knowing the events of the war plays out in these texts through internal debates over the role of psychoanalysis; even while making use of psychoanalytic tools, the memoirs engage in a struggle to recapture psychic material from psychoanalysis and reclaim it for literature.

ISBN: 0591220903Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Facing texts: Autobiographical reckonings with the Second World War in Woolf, H.D., Duras, and Perec.
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