Liquefactions : River floods and Tides of Memory in Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces

Botez, Catalina

Liquefactions : River floods and Tides of Memory in Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces

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2014

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Journal article

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Social Alternatives ; 33 (2014), 2. - pp. 23-30. - ISSN 0155-0306

Abstract

In my article on Anne Michaels' fictional work Fugitive Pieces, I introduce the critical concept of liquefaction as thematic leitmotiv that connects psychological, transgenerational trauma to large-scale environmental catastrophes (like floods and hurricanes) across time and place, and across international, national and domestic spaces. Through this central trope, I show how psychological post-traumatic healing in Holocaust survivors and geologic post-traumatic healing operate in tandem in the novel, more precisely how the figurative unearthing and working through of traumatic memory across generations parallels the literal unearthing and re-situating of archaeological artefacts across geologic time. The interconnectedness of psychological wounds with geological wounds demonstrates the ethics of nature - a kind of co-healing of persons and places across generations and landscapes (both transgenerational and transhistorical). I also point out the restitutive ethics of nature and maintain that floods manifest themselves as counterhistoric agents able to reveal and restore historic truth through obscuration and disclosure.

Subject (DDC)

800 Literature, Rhetoric, Literary Science

Keywords

Post-Holocaust Trauma,Forced Migration,Jewish Identity,Anne Michaels,Migration Studies

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BOTEZ, Catalina, 2014. Liquefactions : River floods and Tides of Memory in Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces. In: Social Alternatives. 33(2), pp. 23-30. ISSN 0155-0306

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@article{Botez2014Lique-28978,
  year={2014},
  title={Liquefactions : River floods and Tides of Memory in Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces},
  number={2},
  volume={33},
  issn={0155-0306},
  journal={Social Alternatives},
  pages={23--30},
  author={Botez, Catalina}
}

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