Agential Memory in Contemporary Irish Identity Formation in John Banville's The Sea | ||
| پژوهش ادبیات معاصر جهان | ||
| Volume 29, Issue 2, November 2024, Pages 387-411 PDF (468.43 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22059/jor.2023.352961.2373 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hadi Shahi Gharehaghaji* | ||
| Department of English Language and Literature, University College of Azarabadegan, Urmia, Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This article investigates the concept of agential memory in John Banville’s The Sea (2005). Agential realism is a concept developed by the American philosopher physicist Karen Barad in order to postulate a new model for redefining epistemology, ontology, and ethics. This article uses Barad’s agential realist model in order to introduce a new model of memory, which this study calls agential memory. The reason for positing such a model for memory is that memory loses its conventional function in The Sea, and instead, memory’s interaction with natural elements forms a special bond between the subject and the object, which the humanist conception of memory cannot explain. Thus, based on Barad’s agential realist model, this article creates and posits an agential memory to understand the workings of memory both in the humans and the objects. How memory is retrieved to connect the past with the present and even the future, how memories are relived and sometimes intermingled with imagination, and how agential memory works as a way toward Irish identity formation in The Sea are examined in this study. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| agential memory; contemporary Irish identity; The Sea; John Banville; Karen Barad; agential realism | ||
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