Enacting Past and Present - The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras

Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Mieke Bal and others, author Michaela Grobbel focuses on the work three women authors as types of performance which lead to re-presentations of memory. These women writers foreground the present but also critically demonstrate the complex relationship of the present to the past. Grobbel''s work is a critical addition to any discussion of feminism, memory and literary modernism.