Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-472-07623-9
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
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- Introduction:The Past is Full of Ruptures
- 0.1 Memories of Conflict and Conflicts of Memory in Post-Colonial Africa
- 0.2 Postcolonial Memory Studies
- 0.3 Frictions of Memory
- 0.4 Fiction of Memory in Post-Conflict Africa
- 0.5 Outline of the Book
Chapter 1: The Past is a Contested Territory: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Postmemory Fiction
- 1.1 The Shadow of Biafra
- 1.2. Postmemory
- 1.3 Chimamanda Adichie as a Vicarious Witness
- 1.4 Aesthetics of Postmemory in Half of Yellow Sun
- 1.5 Remembering Back and Writing Back: The Nexus Between Postmemory and Postcolonialism in Half of a Yellow Sun
- 1.6 Remediation of Memory
- 1.7 Postmemory and the Possibility of Justice for Biafra
- 1.8 Concatenated Memories, Ancestral Memories
Chapter 2: The Past Continues in Silence: Memory, Complicity and the Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of Love
- 2.1 Reading Silence
- 2.2 A Sense of Something Unspoken: The Memory of Love as Textual Silence
- 2.2 Silence of Trauma
- 2.3 Silence of Oppression
- 2.4 A Culture of Silence
- 2.5 Silent and Silenced Memories
- 2.6 Silence of Complicity
- 2.7 The Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of Love
Chapter 3: The Past Continues in Another Country: African Transnational Memory in a Migratory Setting
- 3.1 Immigrant Melancholia
- 3.2 Memory, Translocalities and Alternative Practices of Belonging in Children of the Revolution
- 3.3 In Search of an African Transnational Memory
Chapter 4: The Past Continues through Subject Positions: Memory, Subjectivity and Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of Imana
- 4.1 African Transnational Memory and the Rwandan Genocide
- 4.2 Sites and Sutures of Memory: Veronique Tadjo’s Affective Encounters
- 4.3 Memory and Positionality: Intricacies of Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of Imana
Chapter 5: The Past Continues in the Future
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