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African pasts : Memory and history in African literatures
Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of w...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a African pasts : |b Memory and history in African literatures |
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| 505 | 0 | |a AFRICAN PASTS: Memory and history in African literatures; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Figuring African history, memory and trauma; Memory and self; Trauma; 2 Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial memory; Precolonial history: Elechi Amadi; Oral narratives and the past: Tutuola and Okara; Memory and healing: the archetypal case of Ayi Kwei Armah; Loss or lack?; 3 Critical and traumatic realist pasts; Ngugi, history and memory; Other realisms; Traumatic realism and 'postmemory'; 4 Gender, memory, history. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Memory-work and the 'double yoke'Unfixing stereotypes of African womanhood; 'A great big void': Tsitsi Dangarembga and women's memory; Oppressive memories; 'A nothingness so strong that it was a presence': the violation of colonialism in Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita; Conclusion; 5 Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of hostages; 'Interstices of freedom': language and representation; The self in prison; The body under torture; The roles of history and memory; Chronotopes of incarceration. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 6 Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980sBlack consciousness and aesthetics; Memory and history in Soweto poetry; Language and memory; Oral influences, ancestors and; Conclusion; 7 On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum; Monuments and memorials; The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in literary consciousness; Rewriting the Afrikaner past; Writing black history; Mandla Langa's fiction of memory; Getting beyond apartheid; 8 Intimations of the postmodern; Postmodernism in an African literary context. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a History in Kojo Laing and J.M. CoetzeeM. G. Vassanji's textual pasts; Conclusion: what future postmodernism?; Works cited; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of writers imprisoned for their political beliefs. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Kollektives Gedächtnis |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Geschichtsbild |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Postkoloniale Literatur |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Postcolonialism in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Memory in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01787079 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a African literature (English) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00799849 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Memory in literature. |2 blmlsh | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Literature: History & Criticism. |2 bicssc | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Postcolonialisme dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Memoire dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Litterature africaine (anglaise) |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Postcolonialism in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Memory in literature. | |
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| 651 | 6 | |a Afrique |x Dans la litterature. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Africa |x In literature. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
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