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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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Oliver Sacks. ‘A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss (Music and Amnesia).’ The New Yorker, September 24, 2007: 100–112.
Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel (New York: Vintage, 1983), 4.
Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 37.
Suzanne Corkin, Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesiac Patient, H. M. (New York: Basic Books, 1913), xv.
Alix Kates Shulman, To Love What Is: A Maniage Transformed (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007), 103.
Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked Away (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), 135.
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (New York: Random House, 2015), 251–252.
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Tougaw, J. (2016). Amnesia and Identity in Contemporary Literature. In: Groes, S. (eds) Memory in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_34
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