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Memory as Colonial Capital
Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and EnglishPalgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 17.08.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319505770 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and timely issue, as colonial history has served to crush, erase and manipulate collective and individual memories. Indeed, the most powerful mechanism of colonial discourse is that which alters and silences local histories and even individuals’ memories in service to colonial authority. Johnson and Brezault work to contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history, creating a collection that pioneers a postcolonial turn in cultural memory studies suitable for scholars interested in cultural memory, postcolonial, Francophone and ethnic studies.<div><br/></div><div>Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch. <br/></div>
1. Introduction.- 2. “The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder’s and Beah’s Problematic Journey to the West,” by Éloïse Brezault.- 3. “The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau,” by Erica L. Johnson.- 4. “Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison,” by Natalie Edwards.- 5.“The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires,” by Charles Forsdick.- 6. “Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang’s La saison des prunes,” by Nathalie Carré.- 7. “History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar,” Judith DeGroat. - 8. “On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road,” Roy Osamu Kamada.- 9.“Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano’s Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie,” by Judith G. Miller.- 10.“‘Still in the Difficulty’: The Afterlives of Archives,” by Wendy Walters.
<div>Erica L. Johnson is Associate Professor in the English Department at Pace University in New York City and the author of <i>Caribbean Ghostwriting</i> (2009) and <i>Home, Maison, Casa</i> (2003). She is also the co-editor with Patricia Moran of <i>The Female Face of Shame</i> (2013) and <i>Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches</i> (2015). She has published widely on modernist and postcolonial literature.</div><div><br/></div><div>Éloïse Brezault is Assistant Professor at Saint Lawrence University and the author of <i>Johnny Chien Méchant par Emmanuel Dongala</i> (2012), on the representation of child soldiers in Dongala’s novel, <i>Johnny Mad Dog</i>. She has published a collection of interviews with Francophone African writers, <i>Afrique, Paroles d’écrivains</i> (2010). She currently works as the associate editor of the academic journal <i>Nouvelles Études Francophones</i> and she has written numerous articles on Francophone African literature and postcolonial studies.</div><br/>
This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and timely issue, as colonial history has served to crush, erase and manipulate collective and individual memories. Indeed, the most powerful mechanism of colonial discourse is that which alters and silences local histories and even individuals’ memories in service to colonial authority. Johnson and Brezault work to contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history, creating a collection that pioneers a postcolonial turn in cultural memory studies suitable for scholars interested in cultural memory, postcolonial, Francophone and ethnic studies.
Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA Covers a wide variety of texts written in French and English by writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific Faithful to its comparative approach, the book fosters a critical reading of French and English language texts Linked by a common set of theoretical concerns and by the practice of comparative study, these yet diverse essays contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
<div>Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA</div><div><br/></div>Covers a wide variety of texts written in French and English by writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific<div><br/><div>Faithful to its comparative approach, the book fosters a critical reading of French and English language texts</div><div><br/></div><div>Linked by a common set of theoretical concerns and by the practice of comparative study, these yet diverse essays contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history</div></div>
<p>“This timely volume exemplifies the value of sustained and sensitive textual analysis for understanding the global circulation of postcolonial memories. Attentive to the many ways memories mutate across media, genres, temporal horizons, and geographical and linguistic borders, the volume testifies to the vitality of the encounter between memory studies and postcolonial studies.” (Pieter Vermeulen, University of Leuven, Belgium)</p>
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