What Is (Not) Told: Memory and the Rhetoric of Silence in Domnica Radulescu’s Country of Red Azaleas as an American Émigré Novel

The essay discusses rhetoric and multiple functions of silence as a means of remembering and forgetting in Domnica Radulescu’s novel Country of Red Azaleas as a typical example of exile fiction. Silence in the novel is presented as a blocker of traumatic memory transmission and expresses the untran...

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Main Author:	Marta Koval
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society 2020-12-01
Series:	Res Rhetorica
Subjects:	silence traumatic memory forgetting memory of places memory transmission sensescape
Online Access:	http://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/441

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title	What Is (Not) Told: Memory and the Rhetoric of Silence in Domnica Radulescu’s Country of Red Azaleas as an American Émigré Novel
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publisher	Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society
series	Res Rhetorica
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description	The essay discusses rhetoric and multiple functions of silence as a means of remembering and forgetting in Domnica Radulescu’s novel Country of Red Azaleas as a typical example of exile fiction. Silence in the novel is presented as a blocker of traumatic memory transmission and expresses the untranslatability of trauma. Silence also becomes constitutive in the formation of characters’ new identity based on forgetting. The essay analyzes other forms of non-verbal/silent memory, such as memory of places and sensory memories and emphasizes their social and political dimension.
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What Is (Not) Told: Memory and the Rhetoric of Silence in Domnica Radulescu’s Country of Red Azaleas as an American Émigré Novel

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