{"product_id":"bridges-to-memory-maria-rice-bellamy-9780813937953","title":"Bridges to Memory: Postmemory in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracing the development of a new genre in contemporary American literature that was engendered in the civil rights, feminist, and ethnic empowerment struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, \u003ci\u003eBridges to Memory\u003c\/i\u003e shows how these movements authorized African American and ethnic American women writers to reimagine the traumatic histories that form their ancestral inheritance and define their contemporary identities. Drawing on the concept of postmemory--a paradigm developed to describe the relationship that children of Holocaust survivors have to their parents' traumatic experiences--Maria Bellamy examines narrative representations of this inherited form of trauma in the work of contemporary African American and ethnic American women writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on Gayl Jones's \u003ci\u003eCorregidora, \u003c\/i\u003e Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred, \u003c\/i\u003e Phyllis Alesia Perry's \u003ci\u003eStigmata, \u003c\/i\u003e Cristina Garc?'s \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban, \u003c\/i\u003e Nora Okja Keller's \u003ci\u003eComfort Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e and Edwidge Danticat's \u003ci\u003eThe Dew Breaker, \u003c\/i\u003e Bellamy shows how cultural context determines the ways in which traumatic history is remembered and transmitted to future generations. Taken together, these narratives of postmemory manifest the haunting presence of the past in the present and constitute an archive of textual witness and global relevance that builds cross-cultural understanding and ethical engagement with the suffering of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Rice Bellamy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813937957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813937953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Maria Rice Bellamy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059833794815,"sku":"9780813937953","price":59.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a7b02de-6b82-4e85-9fa8-adab914330a8.jpg?v=1685060591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bridges-to-memory-maria-rice-bellamy-9780813937953","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}