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Focusing on the interplay between postcolonial memory and colonial narratives, this volume explores how writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. confront and reinterpret historical memory in their works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It addresses the urgent issue of contested memory, highlighting how colonial history has suppressed and manipulated collective and individual recollections. Johnson and Brezault contextualize the politics of memory writing, making significant contributions to cultural memory studies and postcolonial discourse.
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Memory as Colonial Capital, Marianne Hirsch
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- 2018
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- Title
- Memory as Colonial Capital
- Subtitle
- Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marianne Hirsch
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 220
- ISBN13
- 9783319844336
- Description
- Focusing on the interplay between postcolonial memory and colonial narratives, this volume explores how writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. confront and reinterpret historical memory in their works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It addresses the urgent issue of contested memory, highlighting how colonial history has suppressed and manipulated collective and individual recollections. Johnson and Brezault contextualize the politics of memory writing, making significant contributions to cultural memory studies and postcolonial discourse.