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(2016) Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Amnesia and identity in contemporary literature

Jason Tougaw

pp. 280-285

How to narrate the life story of an amnesiac? What aspects of identity remain when memory fails? A cluster of contemporary narratives, fiction and nonfiction, address these questions, offering new hypotheses about the relationship between memory and identity.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137520586_34

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Tougaw, J. (2016)., Amnesia and identity in contemporary literature, in S. Groes (ed.), Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 280-285.

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