Overview
- Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
- Covers a wide variety of texts written in French and English by writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific
- Faithful to its comparative approach, the book fosters a critical reading of French and English language texts
- Linked by a common set of theoretical concerns and by the practice of comparative study, these yet diverse essays contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch.
Reviews
“This timely volume exemplifies the value of sustained and sensitive textual analysis for understanding the global circulation of postcolonial memories. Attentive to the many ways memories mutate across media, genres, temporal horizons, and geographical and linguistic borders, the volume testifies to the vitality of the encounter between memory studies and postcolonial studies.” (Pieter Vermeulen, University of Leuven, Belgium)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Éloïse Brezault is Assistant Professor at Saint Lawrence University and the author of Johnny Chien Méchant par Emmanuel Dongala (2012), on the representation of child soldiers in Dongala’s novel, Johnny Mad Dog. She has published a collection of interviews with Francophone African writers, Afrique, Paroles d’écrivains (2010). She currently works as the associate editor of the academic journal Nouvelles Études Francophones and she has written numerous articles on Francophone African literature and postcolonial studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memory as Colonial Capital
Book Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English
Editors: Erica L. Johnson, Éloïse Brezault
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50577-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50576-3Published: 06 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84433-6Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50577-0Published: 17 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 202
Topics: Cultural Theory, Memory Studies, Imperialism and Colonialism, Global/International Culture, Postcolonial/World Literature