Jewish Agents of Memory in Linda Grant'sStill Here
A Transgenerational and Intersectional Feminist Reading
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4867697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (0000-0001-8928-7295, Universidad de Zaragoza, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 228-242 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2021.1878636 |
| OpenAlex | W3128835715 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
By drawing on Jewish feminist scholarship along with intersectional feminism, the aim of this article is to explore whether the construction of the female protagonist and gender relations in Linda Grant’s novel Still Here (2002) offer fruitful models for reshaping Jewish memories and identities. I examine the way memory in the novel becomes multidirectional and palimpsestic by fusing various dimensions of time and space. Set in Liverpool and Dresden, with their very different histories, the novel traces how the two middle-aged Jewish protagonists, Alix Rebick and Joseph Shields, discover each other’s personal as well as disturbing family memories. The multidirectional and transgenerational bonds that connect them lead to their falling in love; and their relationship is shown to develop as a result of their ability to overcome their traumatic experiences and to open their own selves to feel empathic towards each other’s pain. The issues and questions raised in the novel are examined from the perspective of Jewish and intersectional feminism so as to fully explore Alix’s agency in coming to terms with her inherited past and troubled Jewish female identity
Aesthetics · Feminism · Judaism · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology
Jewish Voices in Feminism
Trauma
From Gaza to Warsaw
Anglophone Jewish Literature
Post-War Jewish Fiction
Writing Jewish
Reinscribing De Quincey's palimpsest
Writing history, writing trauma
Multidirectional Memory
Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option
Jewish Memory between Exile and History
Traumatic Forgetting and Spatial Consciousness in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here
The Generation of Postmemory
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |