Gendered Memories |
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| Volume Editor:
| Neubauer, John
Geyer-Ryan, Helga |
| Series title: | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature / Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association Literature As Cultural Memory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-420-0430-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $48.00 |
Book Description:
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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 assume different social and cultural roles, their way of remembering should also differ. So,...
More DescriptionHow 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 assume different 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.