Memory and Meaning in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres: Exploring Familial Trauma, Memory, and Narrative Reconstruction
a thousand acres research paper “A memory is what’s left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.” —Edward de Bono Memory defines our lives and makes up who we were, who we are, and who we will become. Before smartphones, posterity relied on history regaled, retold, and remembered. Memory binds Jane Smiley’s A […]