Combating Historical Amnesia:The Memory-individual as the Living Memory in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

作     者：LU Ying-ru 

作者机构：Guangdong Polytechnic Normal UniversityGuangzhouChina 

基　　金：funded by Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University(2021SDKYB087) 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第11卷第11期

页      码：873-877页

摘      要：In Marilynne Robinson s Gilead,the first John Ames is the memory-individual whose personal memory serves as the living memory to combat the collective historical amnesia of Iowa’s antislavery *** all his efforts,memory is framed by the *** has forgotten its abolitionist root and anti-racial discrimination *** individual effort to resist collective historical amnesia *** the first Ames’s failure,Robinson presents the politics of memory,particularly the struggle between individual memory and collective historical *** historical amnesia of abolitionism over Gilead is Robinson’s criticism of the present societal betrayal of the pursuit of racial equality as epitomized in the historical antislavery ***’s memory writing in Gilead is also her literary endeavor to remember the forgotten history and to reflect upon the racial issue pervading present American society.

主 题 词：Marilynne Robinson Gilead Historical Amnesia Memory-individual 

学科分类：1007[医学-药学类] 10[医学] 

D　O　I：10.17265/2159-5836/2021.11.006

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