Brain Text and Traumatic Postmemory in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• Main Authors: Gao, Ercong, Tian, Junwu
• 格式: text
• 出版: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• 主題: Brain text; Jewish consciousness; Jonathan Safran Foer; post-memory
• 在線閱讀: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss39/15; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1994/viewcontent/KK_2039_2C_202022_2014_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Ethical_20Literary_20Criticism_2C_20Brain_20Text_2C_20and_20New_20Readings_20of_20World_20Literature_20_28Part_20II_29_20__20Lee.pdf

By adopting Nie Zhenzhao’s conception of brain text, this paper explicates the generation of traumatic postmemories as represented in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, a third-generation descendant of Holocaust witnesses. The authors argue that the traumatic effects of gre...