Gendering Cultural Memory: Balzac’s Adieu

In this essay I examine the en-gendering of cultural memory in Honoré de Balzac´s story Adieu (1830), which proceeds from a repressed trauma originating in historical events. Balzac wrote the story in the spring of 1830, i. e. at a time when the French discontent with the Restoration regime was soo...

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Main Author: Kristina Fjelkestam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2013-06-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2047