Memory, identity and displacement in "Heshel’s Kingdom" by Dan Jacobson

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Memory, identity and displacement in "Heshel’s Kingdom" by Dan Jacobson
In the Book:
History, memory and nostalgia in literature and culture / edited by Regina Rudaitytė. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. P. 38-53
Summary / Abstract:

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Hešelio karalystė; Tapatybė; Atmintis; Identity; Heshel’s Kingdom; Memory.

ENDan Jacobson’s (1921-2014) Heshel’s Kingdom (1998), referred by critics as "a family memoir", "travel-autobiography", "a case study", to mention a few, recounts the writer’s family history against the backdrop of settings which map their personal and cultural identity. Drawing on memory studies, this paper examines the constellation of themes entwining memory, identity and displacement as revealed in the narrator-subject’s engagement with the family’s past and his own identity. The notion of displacement will be considered with respect to twofold displacement, defined by Angelika Bammer as "the separation of people from their native culture either through physical dislocation [...] or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture". The analysis also refers to Henri Lefebvre theory of the production of space to bring together the notions of place, memory and history as factors shaping personal and collective identity. [...]. [Extract, p. 38]

ISBN:
9781527508767
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Undigested past : the Holocaust in Lithuania / Robert van Voren. Amsterdam ; Rodopi, 2011. xi, 195 p.
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2022-01-17 21:40:52
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