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Mind the Ghost : Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French - Sonja Stojanovic

Mind the Ghost

Thinking Memory and the Untimely through Contemporary Fiction in French

By: Sonja Stojanovic

Paperback | 4 March 2025

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Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, and literality and metaphor. A contribution to current conversations in memory studies and spectrality studies, Mind the Ghost is an experiment in reading ghosts otherwise. It explores, through contemporary fiction in French, sites of textual haunting that take the form of names, lists, objects, photographs, and stains. The book turns to Jacques Derrida and H©l¨ne Cixous to rethink what constitutes and functions as a ghost, proposing that this figure solicits readersâ investment in mnemonic practices. Considering the memories and legacies of violence that have marked the greater part of the twentieth-century â" in Algeria, Bosnia, Croatia, France, and Rwanda â" this book traces absences, disappearances and reappearances, textual omissions and untimely irruptions to posit literatureâs power to both remember and communicate beyond the bounds of chronological time. Through close readings of recent fiction by Kaouther Adimi, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Ga«l Faye, J©r´me Ferrari, Patrick Modiano, Lydie Salvayre, Le¯la Sebbar, and C©cile Wajsbrot, Mind the Ghost articulates the mechanisms through which readers themselves become haunted.

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