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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Amnesia and identity in contemporary literature

Jason Tougaw

pp. 280-285

Abstract

How to narrate the life story of an amnesiac? What aspects of identity remain when memory fails? A cluster of contemporary narratives, fiction and nonfiction, address these questions, offering new hypotheses about the relationship between memory and identity.

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Groes Sebastian (2016) Memory in the twenty-first century: new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 280-285

DOI: 10.1057/9781137520586_34

Full citation:

Tougaw Jason (2016) „Amnesia and identity in contemporary literature“, In: S. Groes (ed.), Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 280–285.