Memoirs of Perseverance: Episodic Memory in Elie Wiesel's Night

Mahisha Babu J; B. Anita Virgin

doi:10.56062/gtrs.2024.3.6.612

Authors

Mahisha Babu J Ph.D. Scholar in English, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore
B. Anita Virgin Assistant Professor, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2024.3.6.612

Keywords:

Memory, trauma, struggle for identity, history of memory, autobiography memory.

Abstract

Episodic memory is the neurocognitive system that allows humans to recall past experiences. The individual memories of these experiences are referred to as short-term objectives, which describe a unique relationship with time. The concept of episodic memory is not a reference to specific tasks but a hypothetical system operating beyond preserved information and mental experiences. It does not consist of individual bits of information but involves multiple components of a single event bound together. Elie Wiesel's Night recounts the personal experience of the author in a concentration camp during the period of the Holocaust. The paper attempts to analyze how Tulving's episodic memory theory has been used in the characters of Elie Wiesel's Night. Furthermore, it will explore how Wiesel used the tool of episodic memory objectives in his novel to show the true faces of society and further investigate how the novel portrays personal experiences and contextual details about autonoetic consciousness, mental time travel, subjective nature, temporal order, and neurological basis.

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