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

• Main Authors: Gao, Ercong, Tian, Junwu
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Brain text; Jewish consciousness; Jonathan Safran Foer; post-memory
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...