| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Time and memory "After" Colonial Governmentality / Michael R. Griffiths -- Part 1. Continuities: Neocolonialism and Governmentality. Regarding Self-Governmentality: Transactional Accidents and Indigeneity in Cape York Penisula, Australia / Timothy Neale ; Postcolonial Security, Development, and Biopolitics: Targeting Women's Lives in Solomon Islands / Anita Lacey ; "Backdoor Entry" to Australia: A Genealogy of (Post)colonial Resentment / Maria Elena Indelicato ; Interculturalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Contest Over "Nativeness" / Bruce Cornellier -- part 2. Literature and Culture After Colonial Governmentality. "The World is Spoilt in the White Man's Time": Imagining Postcolonial Temporalities / Asha Varadharajan and Timothy Wyman-McCarthy ; Remembering Histories of Care: Clinic and Archives in Anil's Ghost / Sandhya Shetty ; Embodied Memorires: Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Multiple Genealogies in Deborah Miranda's Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir / René Dietrich ; Post-Presentational: The Literature of Colonial Memory in Australia and Latin America After Neoliberalism / Nicholas Birns ; Sedimented Colonizations in the Maghrebine Writings of Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, and Paul Bowles / Michael K. Walonen ; Memory is an Archipelago: Glissant, Chamoiseau, and the Literary Expression of Cultural Memory / Bonnie Thomas ; Precarious/Sense: Memory and the Poetics of Spatial Performance / José Felipe Alvergue ; "Speaking Darwish" in Neoliberal Palastine / Ala Alazzeh and Rania Jawad |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed April 29, 2016) |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Social justice in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Memory in literature -- Congresses
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Memory in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Psychic trauma in literature
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Social justice in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Griffiths, Michael R., editor
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| ISBN |
9781472449993 |
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1472449991 |
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9781472450005 |
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1472450000 |
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