Literary and Cultural Responses to Mnemonic Landscapes

Lourdes López-Ropero is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Alicante, Spain, where she teaches Contemporary and World Literature in English. Her primary research focus has been in the fields of postcolonial studies and memory studies, with an emphasis on Caribbean and Black-British literature. She is the author of The Anglo-Caribbean Migration Novel: Writing from the Diaspora.Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż is University/Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of Reimagining the War Memorial and The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945. She has co-edited The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film and The Enemy in Contemporary Film.

• .- 1. Spaces in Transit: An Introduction Lourdes López-Ropero.- Part I Historyscapes: Re-Constructing Mnemonic Traces of the Past.- Preface Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.- 2. Performing Memory Through Transience: Architectural and Archival Ruins in Rodolphe Hammadi and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Guyane: Traces-mémoires du bagne [French Guiana: Memory-traces of the Penal Colony] Erica L. Johnson.- 3. Commemorating Contested National Park Landscapes: The Canada 150 Discovery Pass and White Scopic Disremembering Laura McKinley.- 4. Ghosts and Shadows: Art, Urbanscape and Memory after the Fall of the Berlin Wall Caroline Perre.- 5. Transitory Spaces, Memory and Intermediality in Teju Cole’s Everyday is for the Thief and Open City Birgit Neumann and Gabriele Rippl.- 6. The Spatiality of Memory in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Novels Julia Wiedemann.- Part II  Artscapes: Form as Meaning in Commemorative Practice.- Preface Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.- 7. “Our Landscape is its own Monument”: Using “Muscle Memory” to Make Home Space in Alien Environments in the Work of Jade de Montserrat Alan Rice.- 8. “A ‘silence’ that will not quite stay put”: The Sites and Sights of Landmark Poetics in the Works of Lemm Sissay and Dorothea Smartt Deirdre Osborne.- 9. Rewriting Statues, Battling Amnesia: Frances Presley’s Poetic Commemoration of Historical Women in “Female Figures” Teresa Martínez-Quiles.- 10. Re-Memorializing Space: Simon Armitage’s Still, Photography as an Art Project, and the Western Front in British National/Cultural Memory Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.- Part III   Mythic Urbanscapes and Naturescapes: Undoing Ideologies and Resurfacing Layers of Space.- Preface Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.- 11. Surveying Topographies of Abuse: Counter-Monumental Impulse and Implicative Spaces of Memory in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen Lourdes López-Ropero.- 12. The Cityscape of Memory and Transition in Peter Ackroyd’s London Novel Petr Chalupský.- 13. Poetic Spaces of Imagination and Environmental Memory in Ted Hughes’s Remains of Elmet Lorraine Kerslake.- 14. Reforming Visions of New York: Mnemonic Landscapes of the Modern CityRoss J. Wilson.- 15. Toponymic Negotiations, Memorial Arenas: The Politics of Re-Naming All-Black Towns in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt Paula Martín Salván.- 16. Conclusion and Proposals for Further Inquiry Lourdes López-Ropero and Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.