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Memory as Colonial Capital
. Ed(S): Johnson, Erica L.; Brezault, Eloise
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Hardback. Editor(s): Johnson, Erica L.; Brezault, Eloise. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBAH; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319505763
SKU
V9783319505763
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About . Ed(S): Johnson, Erica L.; Brezault, Eloise
Erica L. Johnson is Associate Professor in the English Department at Pace University in New York City and the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009) and Home, Maison, Casa (2003). She is also the co-editor with Patricia Moran of The Female Face of Shame (2013) and Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches (2015). She has published widely on modernist and postcolonial literature. ... Read more
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