نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشیار، گروه سینما، دانشکده سینما و تئاتر، دانشگاه هنر ایران، تهران، ایران
2 دانشیار، گروه نمایش، دانشکده سینما و تئاتر، دانشگاه هنر ایران، تهران، ایران.
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
This study examines the representation of memory and the process of recollection in the fiction of Goli Taraghi, with a focus on Walter Benjamin’s concept of “involuntary memory.” Benjamin distinguishes between voluntary and involuntary memory: the former operates through conscious will, while the latter is triggered suddenly through sensory stimuli, bringing the past into the present in a fragmented, instantaneous, and nonlinear form. In Taraghi’s fictional world, sensory experiences—ranging from hearing, smell, and taste to sight, touch, and even bodily movement—serve as gateways for the activation of such memories. An analysis of stories such as The First Day, The Unfinished Game, The Pear Tree, A House in Heaven, The Incident, and The Return—used here as case studies—demonstrates how minor sensory triggers can summon a network of blurred, fragmented, and quasi-cinematic images that, intertwine past and present. These narratives reveal that the body and the senses play a central role in shaping involuntary memories, where recollection is less the linear reconstruction of the past than a fleeting, dialectical event between remembering and forgetting. Thus, in Taraghi’s works, memory is not merely a narrative construct but an ontological foundation that reflects individual experience in relation to history and the collective lifeworld. The findings further suggest that the imagistic and montage-like qualities of these memories resonate with Benjamin’s visual metaphors of memory. Accordingly, Taraghi’s fictional universe can be seen as a site for the embodiment of Benjamin’s idea of involuntary memory, where sensory experience becomes the point of convergence between past and present.
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