TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Knútsdóttir,Vera
TI  - Spectral Memories of Post-crash Iceland: Memory, Identity and the Haunted Imagination in Contemporary Literature and Art 
T2  - Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
SN  - 9789004685512
AV  - PT7383 
U1  - 839/.6909 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Financial crises in literature
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in literature
KW  - Icelandic literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - How does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in Iceland? The book explores how the crash becomes an implicit background setting in novels that address the silences and gaps of the family archive, and how crime fiction employs generic features of horror to explicitly tackle the ghosts residing in the lost homes of the financial crash. Spectral space is an apparent theme of cultural memories produced in times of crisis, and the book explores how this is made apparent in visual art of the period
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004685512
ER  -