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Memory as colonial capital : cross-cultural encounters in French and English /
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-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: Memory and Its Discontents; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction ; References; Memory and Memoir; Chapter 2 The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder's and Beah's Problematic Journey to the West ; References; Chapter 3 The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau ; References; Chapter 4 Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison ; The Pre-Colonial Encounter; The Linguistic Encounter; The Encounter with Writing; Concluding Thoughts; References; Memory and History.
- Chapter 5 The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires Representing the Bagne; Traveling to the Bagne; Une Machine à Malheur: Twentieth-Century Representations; Traces-Mémoires: Remembering the Bagne Today; References; Chapter 6 Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang's La saison des prunes ; Fiction, Memory and the Writing of History; "History Is a Whore that Everyone Screws in Their Own Way": the Underside of Colonial History and the Cameroonian Perspective; Reading Colonial History in Reverse.
- Narrative Matters: Counter-Versions of History for Whom?Using Narration for Reinvention; The "Poet of Reality" And Building the Future?; References; Chapter 7 History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar ; References; Memory, Nation, and Diaspora; Chapter 8 On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo's Coral Road ; References; Chapter 9 Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano's Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie ; References; Chapter 10 "Still in the Difficulty": The Afterlives of Archives ; References; Index.