Memory as colonial capital : cross-cultural encounters in French and English / Erica L. Johnson, Éloïse Brezault, editors.
Johnson, Erica L., 1970- editor.; Brezault, Éloïse, 1976- editor.
2017
PN56.P555
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Title Memory as colonial capital : cross-cultural encounters in French and English / Erica L. Johnson, Éloïse Brezault, editors.
ISBN 9783319505770 (electronic book)
3319505777 (electronic book)
9783319505763
3319505769
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number PN56.P555
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.933581
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Johnson, Erica L., 1970- editor.
Brezault, Éloïse, 1976- editor.
Series Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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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

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