“We Must be Still and Still Moving:” Reimaging and Reimagining the Past in Adam Thorpe’s Still
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: This essay focuses on the role analog still and moving images play in the reconstruction of the past in theBritish author Adam Thorpe’s ekphrastic novel, Still (1995). The interdependence of these two modes ofimages for remembering will serve as a metaphor for the ways in which the twentieth century relies on visualrepresentations of both memory and history for reimagining and recalling the past. Of particular concern tothis essay is the self-proclaimed historians of the postmemory generation, who search for the past not only inplaces of memory, but in what Alison Landsberg calls “tranferential spaces” such as the movies.
Source: Image & narrative
Author: Aykol, Ece
Institutions: LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2302250717