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Stories of oblivion and remembrance: transcontinental memory in the fiction of Jonathan Safran Foer
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Foer's novels, Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly
Close (2005), present characters that are confronted with individual or social amnesia,
and narrate their efforts to cope with this situation, which is a consequence of the
vicissitudes of the 20th century. The destruction of a shtetl in Ukraine, the bombing of
Dresden, both during World War II, and the 9/11 attacks in New York establish the
framework of human experiences which are conditioned by age and generation, culture
and geographic location. Migrations and encounters reveal cultural and linguistic
differences, or the refusal to speak; these conditions of a difficult communication are
obstacles to the reconstruction of lost memory and require specific solutions, e.g. a
catalogue of written words or the help of a translator. This search for the recovery of
memory in transcultural situations implies an encompassing vision of the history and
culture of the contemporary globalized world.
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Alves, Fernanda Mota. 2015. "Stories of oblivion and remembrance: transcontinental memory in the fiction of Jonathan Safran Foer", in Mário Matos, Joanne Paisana e Margarida Esteves Pereira (Eds.). Trancultural amnesia. Mapping Displaced Memories. V.N.Famalicão: Húmus.