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| Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras | | | Author: | Michaela Grobbel | | ISBN: | 0739107569 | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | | Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras FROM THE PUBLISHER Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Mieke Bal and others, author Michaela Grobbel focuses on the work three women authors as types of performance which lead to re-presentations of memory. These women writers foreground the present but also critically demonstrate the complex relationship of the present to the past. Grobbel's work is a critical addition to any discussion of feminism, memory and literary modernism. SYNOPSIS Barnes' Nightwood, Bachman's Malina, and Duras' Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein have become classic 20th-century novels of feminist literature, says Gorbbel (modern languages and literatures, Sonoma State U., California), but she re-examines them by considering their links to the history and philosophy of Western memory and writing in order to shed light on how feminists think about memory and what constitutes modernist feminist thought and practice. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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