tesis de maestría
The Construction of Memory and Power Relations in Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter, Andrea Levy’s The Long Song and Joanne Hillhouse’s Oh Gad!
2019
As explained by Aleida Assman, the last two decades of the 20th century saw the development and consolidation of memory research, a diverse field including “neuronal, medical, and psychological as well as literary, cultural, social, and political studies” that investigate “how we live by our memories, how we are haunted by them, how we use and abuse them” (210). The boom in memory studies results from a widespread interest in the revisiting of the past generated, among other factors, by the postcolonial situation in which humans that have been deprived of their indigenous history and culture a…