The Ghost of Memory
Title | The Ghost of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Wilson Harris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780571341627 |
I had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover. We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? The Ghost of Memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-culturalities between moments of life and death. This is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself
Ghosts of Memory
Title | Ghosts of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Carsten |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0470691549 |
Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past. Explores how various subjects are located in personal and familial histories that connect to the wider political formations of which they are a part Closely examines diverse and intriguing case studies, e.g. Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal, and sex workers in London Brings together original essays authored by contemporary experts in the field Draws on anthropology, literature, memory studies, and social history
Memory'S Ghost
Title | Memory'S Ghost PDF eBook |
Author | Philip J. Hilts |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1996-08-02 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 068482356X |
In an experiment that occurred some forty years ago, Henry M.'s memory was stolen from him during a highly controversial operation performed to cure his epilepsy. Part poetic reflection and philosophical meditation, part popular science and investigative journalism, Memory's Ghost is an unforgettable journey into the mysteries of the human mind.
The Ghost of a Memory
Title | The Ghost of a Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Bobbi Holmes |
Publisher | Robeth Publishing |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Past and present collide when a secret from the 1920s wreaks havoc on Marlow House. Walt struggles to remember what he may have forgotten before it’s too late.
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
Title | Ghosts of the African Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Chassot |
Publisher | Dartmouth College Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2018-01-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1512601616 |
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers - Fred D'Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers' engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.
The Ghost Variations
Title | The Ghost Variations PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Brockmeier |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-03-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1524748838 |
Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.
The Ghost of Memory
Title | The Ghost of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Wilson Harris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
I had been shot. A bullet in my back. I fell. Where did I fall? I fell from a great height, it seemed, into a painting in a gallery in a great City. I found myself returning across centuries and generations to the end of my age. I had been caught by the Artist in what seemed the womb of unexpected being in which one becomes sensitive to the end one has reached and to a new beginning. It was an end, it was a new beginning one was called upon to probe and discover. We may dream, while still alive, of dying. But the dream is soon forgotten as are the edges and corners of a re-lived life of which we dream. It is buried in the unconscious. We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? The Ghost of memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-cultarlities between moments of life and death. This is played out through a man who is mistakenly shot as a terrorist - he sees himself