TY - JOUR ID - 167741 TI - Swing Time: In the Land of Flat Feet Societal Impacts on Individual Recollective Identity JO - Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies JA - JELCS LA - en SN - AU - Pakdaman, Fatemeh Sara AD - 23, Mercan 1, Mercan Complex, Sedef St., Atasehir Blvd., Atasehir Ataturk District Y1 - 2023 PY - 2023 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 23 EP - 31 KW - Collective Memory KW - Socio-semiotics KW - Life Narrative KW - Swing Time KW - Spatiotemporal Dynamics DO - 10.26655/JELCS.2022.4.3 N2 - Studies on fictional and factual narratives suggest the prominence of memory and culture inthe formation of individual self-portrait(s). This study aims to foreground the milieu in ZadieSmith’s Swing Time (2016), zeroing in on social semiotics underlying the narrative’s structure.Drawing on Maurice Halbwachs and Pierre Nora’s theories, the paper dissects the mechanismsof diachronic memory in the conception and development of the narrator’s lived experience,hence her collective and individual identity. Through Juri Lotman’s semiotic ideation ofmemory, the prevailing web of collectivity in Swing Time will be explored. In this fashion, theeminence of collective memories in life narratives will be pinpointed. The life of the narrator inSwing Time manifests how dominant discourses in societies give rise to the deprivation ofsubjects from interpreting their memories autonomously, thereby, transforming the individual toa witness to a pre-fabricated existence rather than a participant in a lived reality. UR - https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_167741.html L1 - https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_167741_0adcf31da00f9f1af683622c44015d76.pdf ER -