120917 20230914083501.0 doi 10.1111/lic3.12688 sideral 131027 ART-2022-131027 eng Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8928-7295 Female re-writings of the Jewish diaspora: Metamemory novels and contemporary British-Jewish women writers 2022 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted In keeping with the interdisciplinary dialogue featuring the fields of Diaspora and Memory Studies, some current fictions seem to have absorbed, reproduced and deconstructed those contemporary discourses that reflect on the complex relation between the individual and collective construction of memory in the diaspora. It is in this context that British-Jewish women authors deserve special attention since they have struggled with numerous memory tensions together with the multifarious identity factors of being Jews, immigrants (or their descendants) and women, adding their multifaceted perspectives on affiliation and belonging to the complexity that defines Jewish identity and culture. This article starts from the neurobiological notion of ʻmetamemoryʼ and the idea that its study leads to understand better both memory and diasporic phenomena. Some contemporary fictional creations by British-Jewish women writers exemplify what could be defined as ʻthe metamemory novelʼ. In particular, I focus on the fictional works of some pertinent second- and third-generation British-Jewish female authors—Lisa Appignanesi's The Memory Man (2004), Linda Grant's The Clothes on their Backs (2008), and Zina Rohan's The Small Book (2010). Following Birgit Neumann's notion of ‘fictions of metamemory’ (2008a, b), I detail the key narrative features that configure these novels, such as polyphony, metafictionality and the blurring of time dimensions. Moreover, I study the generational bonds that are (de)constructed in these stories, thanks to Hirsch's notion of ‘postmemory’ (2008), which acquire healing properties for the protagonists. Finally, I conclude that the formal experimentation identified in these writings may confirm that today's Jewish female writers are resorting to literature as a platform to make their diasporic identities more dynamic. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-124841NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.217 2022 Literature and Literary Theory 2022 Q1 Cultural Studies 2022 Q2 1.1 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 19, 12 (2022), e12688 [12 pp.] Literature Compass 1741-4113 240390 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120917/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1428803 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120917/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:120917 articulos driver 2023-09-13-12:42:40 ARTICLE