Between Earth Science and Language/Writing Imagery: How to Render the Workings of Memory in Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces

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  • Fabienne C. Quennet University of Marburg

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https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.57

Abstract

The novel, Fugitive Pieces“ (1996), written by the Canadian author Anne Michaels, is one of these rare North American novels which deals with the Holocaust. Michaels’ use of different realms of imagery points towards her preoccupation with memory and Holocaust remembrance. This paper investigates two models of memory—memory as archeological quest and memory as narrative—which inform Fugitive Pieces“. 

Author Biography

Fabienne C. Quennet, University of Marburg

CV July 1999 Completed dissertation: “Where ‘Indians’ Fear to Tread: A Postmodern Reading of Louise Erdrich’s North Dakota Quartet“ 1997 Organized the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) at Marburg since 1995  Academic Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin“) at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Marburg 1993-95 Assistant teacher for German at Pomona College, CA 1992 M.A. in American Literature, English Literature and Media Studies, PhilippsUniversity Marburg 1987-88 Muhlenberg College, PA Focus of Research Multiethnic Literatures of the US, Contemporary American and Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies, Film Studies Publications Character Studies in Local Color Stories: Rose Terry Cooke and Alice Brown“. Marburg: Tectum Verlag, 1993. Translation of Julia Knight’s  Frauen im neuen deutschen Film“. Marburg: Hitzeroth Verlag, 1995. Review: “Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace.“ Estudios Norteamericano“ 5 (1997): 10-11. “Between Earth Science and Language/Writing Imagery: How to Render the Workings of Memory in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces.“ Ahornblätter“ 13 (forthcoming). 

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Quennet, Fabienne C. “Between Earth Science and Language Writing Imagery: How to Render the Workings of Memory in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 1, Dec. 2011, doi:10.5283/copas.57.

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