Memory Made, Hacked, and Outsourced: How the 21st Century Anglophone Novels Remember and Forget

This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also explores how literary practices and imagination are shaping new concepts of memory in the 21st century. By analyzing the selected novels Penelope Livelys The Photograph, Tom McCarthys Remainder, Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending and The Only Story, Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go, and Felicia Yaps Yesterday  this book explores the dynamic interplay of remembering and forgetting, and redefines the relationship between fiction and memory in the 21st century.