Chapter 1 Setting the Scene: The Art of Memory as Writing and Performance Chapter 2 In Memory of the Lost Body: Performance of Resistance in Djuna Barnes Nightwood Chapter 3 The Memory Theater of Ingeborg Bachmann's "Malina" Chapter 4 Strolling Through the Memory Palace of Oblivion: "Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein" by Marguerite Duras Chapter 5 Memory Performances in Literature and the Arts
Michaela M. Grobbel teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Sonoma State University in Northern California. Grobbel studied at the University of Bonn in Germany, and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California in Los Angeles.
Michaela Grobbel's careful and insightful readings of modernist
prose texts by Djuna Barnes (Nightwood 1936), Ingeborg Bachmann
(Malina 1971), and Marguerite Duras (Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein
1964) explore a 'new feminist art of memory,' that—in contrast to
the classical rhetorical art of memory—is centered on the return of
the (female) body within the production of memory and writing. . .
. This study is particularly relevant in light of the fact that
neither the 'gender of memory' nor the aesthetic transposition of
memory as inflected by gender have been the focus of recent
research. . . . Enacting Past and Present is an insightful,
provocative, and discerning contribution to the evolving field of
writing, memory, and culture.
*The German Quarterly*
Enacting Past and Present invites us to reconsider memory as
process and performance; it does so through insightful commentary
on three important women's texts; and it makes a convincing case
for the importance of restoring the materiality of gender to any
such consideration.
*Biography*
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