Editorial Letter, 1 February 2005
Editor: Joy Burnett
Welcome
to Xchanges 4.2. The editorial board is pleased to present
four outstanding pieces that address the topic of "American
Memory." In response to the theme as announced in the journal's
call for papers, Amanda J. Bradley, Rose Lucas, Rachel Wall, and
Katherine Weiss explored how national and cultural memory is created
and shared, individually and collectively, through fiction, poetry,
film, and drama. While the call for papers did not specifically
mention war as an important component of collective cultural memory,
it seems that current times and the state of world affairs have
encouraged scholars to attempt examinations of that complex topic
from many different critical perspectives.
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Contributors to this Issue:
Amanda
J. Bradley, "A
Vicious American Memory: Sylvia Plath's Feminist Criticism of Wars,
Wars, Wars"
Rose Lucas, "Theatres
of Extremity: War and Subjectivity in The Thin Red Line"
Rachel Wall, "Finding
Our Right Heritage in Sarah Phillips and So Far Back"
Katherine Weiss, "Cultural
Memory and War Trauma in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, States
of Shock, and The Late Henry Moss"
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