Memory Made, Hacked, and Outsourced

Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng is the director and associate professor in the Language Center at Taipei Medical University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her publications have addressed memory studies, film studies, visual culture, urban modernity, Amy Levy, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Kazuo Ishiguro, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Tati’s works.  Her several research projects (2017-2023), funded by the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan, R.O.C., focus on representations of memory in contemporary novels and films.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Memory and Fiction in the 21st Century.- Chapter 2: Memory Made: Photography, Latency, and Contingency in Penelope Lively’s The Photograph.- Chapter 3: Memory in Seriality: Remainder, Repetition, and Authenticity in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder.- Chapter 4: Memory Hacking: Remembering, Storytelling, and Unreliable Narrators in Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story.- Chapter 5: Remember Like Humans: (Post-)human Memories, Forgetting, and Space of Latency in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.- Chapter 6: Memory Outsourced: New Memory in the Digital Age in Felicia Yap’s Yesterday.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Future of 21st Century Memory.