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T1 The materiality of history and the shifting shapes of memory in John Hersey’s "Hiroshima" and Alain Resnais’s "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
A1 Schliephake, Christopher Martin
K1 Material ecocriticism
K1 Memory
K1 Trauma
K1 Hiroshima
K1 Ecocrítica material
K1 Memoria
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB TheessayarguesthattheatomicbombingofHiroshimacannotbetoldwithouttakingintoaccountandrecognisingthediverseentanglementsofmatterthatwere(andstillare)involvedinthishistoricevent.Inordertoanalysethemultiplemeaningsconnectedtothebombing,theessaydrawsonSerenellaIovinoandSerpilOpperman’stheoryof“materialecocriticism”,whichdealswiththewayinwhichvariousmaterialformsinteractwiththehumanorsocialdimension,constantlyproducingconfigurationsofmeaningsanddiscourses.Consequently,theessaypointsoutthatmemoryofHiroshimaisaprimeexamplefortheinterplayofmaterial-­‐discursiverelations,whichdonotallowforthecoherentstorytellingofthispastevent,butforanever-­‐changingfragmentationand(re)negotiationofmeaning.ThislatteraspectisextensivelydealtwithintheanalysisofJohnHersey’s1946newspaperarticle“Hiroshima”andAlainResnais’s1959film“HiroshimaMonAmour”,basedonascreenplaybyMargueriteDuras.Theanalysisexaminestowhatextentthesediversemedialrepresentationsconstitute“historicalmatter”themselves,whichhelp(ed)toshapetheculturalmemoryofthenuclearattack,andhowtheymanage,throughdocumentary/narrative/filmicmeasures,toreflectonthematerialentanglementsofthebombingofHiroshima.Historyandmemoryaretherebynotonlyseenasmerelycognitiveundertakings,butasdynamicmaterialprocessesthatentailvariousethicalimplications.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2013
FD 2013-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20301
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20301
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024