Individual Paper
5. Transmitting Knowledges: Institutions, Objects and Practices
Memory, the act of remembering the past or recollecting and selectively forgetting parts of it, has been charged with such heat and intensity in East Asia as probably nowhere in the world. This paper proposes to explore memory and forgetting in the literary prose of a very wellknown Chinese writer. Yan Lianke, a contemporary writer who has tried to reconstruct the collective memory of his ancestors in two works, Wo Yu Fubei (My father generation and me) written in 2009, and Tamen (They refering to the Women of the family) published in 2020. In these works memory and forgetting are explored as an individual act and in a collective and official socio-political context.
Taciana Fisac
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain