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Authors: AMELIA PRECUP.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.12
Published Online: 2017-03-24
Published Print: 2017-03-31
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Reversing absence. The Exploration of Memory in The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers. The Yellow Birds has been acclaimed as one of the best contemporary novels on war. It builds on the recollections of John Bartle, a soldier who strives to cope with the death of Murph, his comrade-in-arms, by revisiting episodes that took place during deployment and by probing his own level of culpability, of moral and psychological weariness, after the return home. Remembrance is central to the narrative, and therefore the main concern of this paper is to look into the multifaceted exploration of memory as a means of creating a space for reconciliation with the past and of coming to terms with traumatic events.
Keywords: war literature, Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds, Iraq War, memory, meaning, representation, grief, culpability.
WORKS CITED
Bruner, Jerome. Acts of Meaning. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Burnside, John. “The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers - Review.” The Guardian 31 August 2012. Web. 9 August 2016.
