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Texts and Society”. He completed his PhD (1986) and his Habilitation (1999)
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C U L T U R A L M E M O R I E S
In the postcolonial reassessment of history, the themes of colonialism,
M
decolonization and individual and collective memory have always been
intertwined, but it is only recently that the transcultural turn in memory studies e
m
has enabled proper dialogue between memory studies and postcolonial studies. Memory and Postcolonial Studies
o
This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and
r
postcolonial studies across literatures and media from Europe, Africa and the y
Americas, and intersections with Asia. It makes a unique contribution to this a
growing international and interdisciplinary field by considering an unprecedented n
d
range of languages and sources that promotes dialogue across comparative
P
literature, English and American studies, media studies, history and art history,
o
and modern languages (French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian- s
t
Croatian, Spanish). c
o
Combining theoretical discussion with innovative case studies, the chapters l
o
consider various postcolonial politics of memory (with a focus on Africa);
n
diasporic, traumatic and “multidirectional memory” (M. Rothberg) in i
a
postcolonial perspective; performative and linguistic aspects of postcolonial l
memory; and transcultural memoryscapes ranging from the Black Atlantic to S
t
the Indian Ocean, from overseas colonialism to the intra-European legacies of u
Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian/Soviet imperialism. This far-reaching enquiry d
i
promotes comparative postcolonial studies as a means of creating more e
integrated frames of reference for research and teaching on the interface s
between memory and postcolonialism.
Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham, Member D
of the Academia Europaea, Honorary President of the International Raabe ir
k
Society, and Co-Director of Nottingham’s Research Priority Area “Languages,
G
Texts and Society”. He completed his PhD (1986) and his Habilitation (1999)
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at the University of Münster. Recent publications include Remembering Africa:
t
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The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature (2013), (Post-) s
c
Colonialism across Europe (co-ed., 2014) and Handbuch Postkolonialismus und
h
Literatur (co-ed., 2017). e
(
e
d
.
)
COFE NCTURLET FUORRA LT HME ESMTUODRYY
www.peterlang.com
C U L T U R A L M E M O R I E S
VOL. 9
SERIES EDITOR
Katia Pizzi
Director, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London
PETER LANG
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Memory and
Postcolonial Studies
Synergies and New Directions
Dirk Göttsche (ed.)
PETER LANG
Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles New York Wien
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Part I. Postcolonial Memory and History:
African Case Studies 43
Dirk Göttsche
History or memory? Postcolonial politics of memory in
Bernhard Jaumann’s Der lange Schatten and M. G. Vassanji’s
The Magic of Saida 45
Berny Sèbe
Cross- cultural memory in postcolonial contexts:
European imperial heroes in twenty- first- century Africa 75
Richard Tsogang Fossi
The memory of German, French and British colonialism in
Cameroonian postcolonial literature 103
Emanuelle Santos
Memory and the contemporary postcolonial condition in
José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel A General Theory of Oblivion 131
vi
Part II. Postcolonial Memory and the Black Atlantic 149
Abigail Ward
Long- memoried women: Slavery and memory in contemporary
Black women’s poetry 151
Hannah-R ose Murray
“My name is not Tom”: Josiah Henson’s fight to reclaim his
identity in Britain, 1876–1877 169
Stephanie Lewthwaite
Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodríguez 187
Part III. Diasporic and Multidirectional Memory 215
Antonia Wimbush
“Effacer mes mauvaises pensées”: Memory, writing and trauma
in Nina Bouraoui’s autofiction 217
Rebekah Vince
Pulled in all directions: The Shoah, colonialism and exile in
Valérie Zenatti’s novel Jacob, Jacob 235
Alex Hastie
Proximate spaces of violence: Multidirectional memory in
Rachid Bouchareb’s films Days of Glory and Outside the Law 255
Fang Tang
The reconstruction of history and cultural memory in
contemporary Chinese- American women’s life- writing:
A comparative study of two memoirs 275
vii
Part IV. Memory and Multi- Layered Identities in
Postcolonial Perspective 297
Rosemary Chapman
Literary history and memory in Quebec 299
Anneliese Hatton
Post- national Portuguese literature: Reconfiguring the imperial
master narrative 319
Heike Bartel
Writing food and food memories in Turkish- German literature
by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar 335
Part V. The Emergence of Postcolonial Memory:
Language, Media and Performance 361
Victoria Carpenter
“2 October is not forgotten”: Tlatelolco 1968 massacre and
social memory frameworks 363
Christopher Davis
Writing Rwanda: The languages of killing and suffering 393
Spencer Jordan
Digital storytelling and performative memory: New approaches
to the literary geography of the postcolonial city 419
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Part VI. Memory and Continental Imperialism in
Comparative Postcolonial Studies 439
Monika Albrecht
Comparative Postcolonial Studies: Southeastern European
history as (post-) colonial history 441
Yannis G. S. Papadopoulos
Collective trauma, transgenerational identity, shared memory:
Public TV series dealing with the Ottoman Empire and
Anatolian refugees in Greece 469
Benedikts Kalnačs
The working memory in contemporary Latvian culture and
society: Between postcolonialism and postcommunism 493
Vladimir Zorić
The Danube archipelago: The hydropoetics of river islands 513
Alun Thomas
An empire remembered? Collectivization and colonialism in
Mukhamet Shayakhmetov’s memoir The Silent Steppe 539
Notes on contributors 559
Index 569
