Bridges to memory : postmemory in contemporary ethnic American women's fiction - Bellamy, Maria Rice, 1968- (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016)
Introduction: Trauma's ghost -- "A new world song": creating a legacy worth preserving in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "She's all pain, my grandmother": the body in pain in narratives of African American collective postmemory -- "She will remember everything": re-membering the ancestral past in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- "The voiceless gave me voices to speak out": Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman and the construction of Korean American feminist identity -- More than hunter or prey: duality and traumatic memory in Edwidge Danticat's The dew breaker -- Conclusion.
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Keywords: American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Memory in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Roman américain -- Auteurs issus des minorités -- Histoire et critique; Mémoire dans la littérature.; Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.; Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.; Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique; LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General; American fiction; American fiction -- Minority authors; American fiction -- Women authors; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Memory in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; 1900-1999; Criticism, interpretation, etc