“Here Comes the New”:Individual and Collective Forgetting in Toni Morrison’s Jazz  

作　　者：Grzegorz Kotecki 

机构地区：[1]University of Wrocław,Wrocław,Poland

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2023年第7期469-476,共8页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：This article examines the problem of individual and collective attempts at forgetting the traumatic past in Toni Morrison’s sixth novel Jazz(1992).More specifically,it emphasizes by selected examples psychological and social aspects of willful amnesia which can lend itself useful in helping traumatized(country)individuals to repress painful remembrances,heal mental wounds and build a new identity in a memory-free modern city.Analyzing Jazz’s narrative featuring Joe and Violet Trace,with a particular focus put on the expectations and experiences connected with their migration to and life in the City,the article explores via Paul Connerton’s ruminations on cultural forgetting in modern times-delineated in his book How Modernity Forgets(2009)-the mechanisms of intentional amnesia used in the process of recovering from personal and social traumas resulting from more recent(migration and urban life)and more time-distant(slavery and racism)ordeals.

关 键 词：FORGETTING HISTORY JAZZ (the)past Toni Morrison 

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