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Life Writing, Cultural Memory, and Historical Mediation in Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine

Pei-Chen Liao
- 09 Mar 2018 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 4, pp 505-521
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This paper analyzed the relationship between Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine and life writing, memory, and the present, and found that the novel's relationship with life writing and memory is similar to ours.
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Reading Julie Otsuka's, When the Emperor was Divine, this article analyses the novel's relationship with life writing, memory and the present. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Otsuka's n...

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The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust

TL;DR: This paper reviewed Hirsch's new book, Golden Harvest (2012), and found that Gross took a seemingly innocent group of people and made them suffer from a "group pho....
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Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture

TL;DR: The Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of Remembrance and Remembrance Studies, focusing on the use of prosthetic memory.

Language Counter Memory Practice

TL;DR: The language counter memory practice is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.
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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention

TL;DR: The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press as mentioned in this paper.
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The Subject and Power

Michel Foucault
- 01 Jul 1982 - 
TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.
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Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

TL;DR: Autobiographical writing is redefining the meaning of narrative, as the recent explosion of memoirs by writers such as Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Dave Eggers, and Kathryn Harrison suggests as discussed by the authors.
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Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture

TL;DR: The Prosthetic Imagination: Immigration Narratives and the 'Melting Down' of Difference as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of memory, modernity, and mass culture.
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The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

TL;DR: The Generation of Postmemory as mentioned in this paper is a collection of post-Holocaust memories and its connections to the present generation of postmemory, including the following: 1. What's Wrong With This Picture? with Leo Spitzer2. Marked by Memory3. Affiliation4. Surviving Images5. Projected Memory7. Connective Histories8. Objects of Return9. Testimonial Objects10.