Amnesia and identity in contemporary literature

Jason Tougaw

pp. 280-285

in: Sebastian Groes (ed), Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Abstract

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.