
How does gender shape memory? What role does literature play in cultural remembering? These are two of the questions to which the present volume is addressed. Even if we agree that remembering is not biologically determined, we can assume that memory is influenced by the particular social, cultural and historical conditions in which individuals find themselves. And since men and women generally as...
Series: Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature
Paperback: 150 pages
Publisher: Brill Rodopi (January 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9042004304
ISBN-13: 978-9042004306
Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 15658428
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ent social and cultural roles, their way of remembering should also differ. So, do women and men remember different events, narrate different stories, and narrate or read them in different ways? Gendered Memories, then, not only looks at memory gendered by literature, but also wants to know how gender shapes the memory of literature.