Author : Dirk Göttsche
Publisher : Cultural Memories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9781788744782
This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and postcolonial studies across literatures and media from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and intersections with Asia. It makes a unique contribution to this growing international and interdisciplinary field by considering an unprecedented range of languages and sources.
Author : Michael Rothberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804762171
Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time to put forward a new theory of cultural memory and uncover an unacknowledged tradition of exchange between the legacies of genocide and colonialism.
Author : Chiara Giuliani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030750639
This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.
Author : Iain Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1317019636
This book examines how we can conceive of a ’postcolonial museum’ in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures. Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces, rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable re-evaluation of the concept of ’modernity’ in a so-called globalised and multicultural world.
Author : Etienne Achille
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 178962066X
Addressing the remarkable absence of colonial legacy from Pierre Nora's Les Lieux de mémoire, the present volume fosters a new reading of the French past by discerning and exploring an initial repertoire of realms that bridges the gap between traditionally instituted French memory and traces of the colonial on the Republic's soil, including its Outremer.
Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191662410
The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past—in its multiple manifestations— and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.
Author : Alec Hargreaves
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 073915768X
Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant minorities, the legacy of colonialism is now more apparent in France than at any time in the past. How is this upsurge of interest in the colonial past to be explained? Does the commemoration of empire necessarily imply glorification or condemnation? To what extent have previously marginalized voices succeeded in making themselves heard in new narratives of empire? While veils of secrecy have been lifted, what taboos still remain and why? These are among the questions addressed by an international team of leading researchers in this interdisciplinary volume, which will interest scholars in a wide range of disciplines including French studies, history, literature, cultural studies, and anthropology.
Author : Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319505777
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.
Author : Michael R. Griffiths
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134801173
From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, performances, and displays of memory serve to obscure and elide aspects of the history of colonial governmentality? This collection addresses these and other questions in essays that take up the varied legacies, continuities, modes of memorialization, and poetics of remaking that attend colonial governmentality in spaces as varied as the Maghreb and the Solomon Islands. Highlighting the continued injustices arising from a process whose aftermath is far from settled, the contributors examine works by twentieth-century authors representing Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Imperial practices throughout the world have fomented a veritable culture of memory. The essays in this volume show how the legacy of colonialism’s attempt to transform the mode of life of colonized peoples has been central to the largely unequal phenomenon of globalization.
Author : Sachin Gadekar
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category :
ISBN :
Memory studies and postcolonialism are increasingly an area of research and teaching. The present study attempts to define and explain the concept of memory in general and cultural memory vis-a-vis culture and literary studies. It offers an integrated survey of the field of cultural memory studies and investigates the textual interweaving of the cultural memory discourse carried out by the postcolonial writers. To meet this goal the critical analysis is narrowed down which presents a close reading of the four novels- Things Fall Apart (1958) by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A Grain of Wheat (1967) by Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ice-Candy-Man (1988) by Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa and Such a Long Journey (1991) by Indian Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry. This book analyses narrative methods which raise several complex issues regarding the varied nature of memory and how it is used as a performative cultural practice and places the concept of cultural memory in the postcolonial context. Literature can be considered a medium of remembrance which helps to produce the collective memories by recollecting the past in the form of narratives. The study of colonial past can offer a valuable insight for the trans-cultural memory and postcolonial studies. The present study could contribute to the fields of postcolonial studies and memory studies because it studies literary works as counter discourse in the postcolonial context by bringing together authors from the three geographical areas in anglophone literatures. Moreover, it combines cultural memory studies and postcolonial literary studies. It carries out an analysis of specific texts with specific focus on rupture of various practices due to colonialism, and the revival and reconstruction of various practices. This book discusses the ways by which the past has been recaptured in literature.
