Memory Frictions in Contemporary Literature

<p>1. Introduction: Memory Frictions: Conflict-Negotiation-Politics in Contemporary Literature in English: María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro and Silvia Pellicer-Ortín.-&nbsp;2. The Powers of Vulnerability: The Restorative Uses of Elegy: Jean-Michel Ganteau.-&nbsp;3. Narrative Form, Memory Frictions and the Revelation of Traumatic Secrets in Toni Morrison’s&nbsp;Home:&nbsp;Susana Onega Jaén.-&nbsp;4. The Zigzag Trajectory through Time of Colum McCann’s&nbsp;TransAtlantic: Sandra Singer.-&nbsp;5. Public Art and Communal Space: The Politics of Commemoration in Amy Waldman’s&nbsp;The Submission: Paula Martín-Salván.-&nbsp;6. A Korean ‘Apocryphal’ Island:&nbsp;Once the Shore, by Paul Yoon: Marc Amfreville.-&nbsp;7. False Memories, False Foods: Eating, Cooking, Remembering in&nbsp;Tastes Like Cuba&nbsp;by Eduardo Machado: Nieves Pascual Soler.-&nbsp;8. The Holocaust in the Eye of the Beholder: Memory in Carmel Bird’s&nbsp;The Bluebird Café&nbsp;(1990): Bárbara Arizti Martín.-&nbsp;9. Lore, or the Implicated Witness: Rachel Seiffert’s Postmemory Work: Suzanne Baackman.-&nbsp;10. ʽNo Redress but Memoryʼ: Holocaust Representation and Memorialisation in E.L. Doctorow’s&nbsp;City of God: María Ferrández San Miguel.-&nbsp;11. Re-Mapping the Trauma Paradigm: The Politics of Native American Grief in Louise Erdrich’s “Shamengwa”: Silvia Martínez-Falquina.-&nbsp;12. Wendy Law-Yone’s&nbsp;The Road to Wanting&nbsp;(2010): The Role of Place and the (Im)Possibility and (Un)Willingness of Remembering the Way Back Home: Dolores Herrero.-&nbsp;13. Negotiating Traumatic Memories in Louise Erdrich's&nbsp;The Round House: White Man's Law vs. Native Justice and Tradition: Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz.-&nbsp;14. Conclusion: Robert Eaglestone.</p>