African pasts: memory and history in African literatures
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures page
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
1
Figuring African history, memory, and trauma
19
Memory and self
25
Trauma
31
2
Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial
memory
43
Precolonial history: Elechi Amadi
49
Oral narratives and the past: Tutuola and Okara
53
Memory and healing: the archetypal case of
Ayi Kwei
Ar
mah
59
Loss or lack?
71
3
Critical and traumatic realist pasts
73
Ngugi, history and memory
79
Other realisms
92
Traumatic realism and postmemory
96
4
Gender, memory, history
99
Memory-work and the double yoke
101
Unfixing stereotypes of African womanhood
107
A great big void : Tsitsi Dangarembga and women s
memory
112
Oppressive memories
117
A nothingness so strong that it was a presence : the
violation of colonialism in Lindsey Collen s The Rape of
Sita
125
Conclusion
131
viii Contents
5
Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of
hostages
133
Interstices of freedom : language and representation
137
The self in prison
144
The body under torture
149
The roles of history and memory
155
Chronotopes of incarceration
162
6
Embedding memory, seizing history: South African
resistance poetry in the
1970s
and
1980s 165
Black consciousness and aesthetics
169
Memory and history in Soweto poetry
177
Language and memory
186
Oral influences, ancestors and izibongo
189
Conclusion
196
7
On shifting ground: South African fiction in the
interregnum
199
Monuments and memorials
204
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in literary
consciousness
209
Rewriting the Afrikaner past
217
Writing black history
225
Mandla Langa s fiction of memory
231
Getting beyond apartheid
236
8
Intimations of the postmodern
241
Postmodernism in an African literary context
243
History in
Kojo
Laing and J. M. Coetzee
248
M. G. Vassanji s textual pasts
255
Conclusion: what future postmodernism?
262
Works cited
266
Index
285
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Contents
List of Figures page
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
1
Figuring African history, memory, and trauma
19
Memory and self
25
Trauma
31
2
Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial
memory
43
Precolonial history: Elechi Amadi
49
Oral narratives and the past: Tutuola and Okara
53
Memory and healing: the archetypal case of
Ayi Kwei
Ar
mah
59
Loss or lack?
71
3
Critical and traumatic realist pasts
73
Ngugi, history and memory
79
Other realisms
92
Traumatic realism and 'postmemory'
96
4
Gender, memory, history
99
Memory-work and the 'double yoke'
101
Unfixing stereotypes of African womanhood
107
'A great big void': Tsitsi Dangarembga and women's
memory
112
Oppressive memories
117
'A nothingness so strong that it was a presence': the
violation of colonialism in Lindsey Collen's The Rape of
Sita
125
Conclusion
131
viii Contents
5
Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of
hostages
133
'Interstices of freedom': language and representation
137
The self in prison
144
The body under torture
149
The roles of history and memory
155
Chronotopes of incarceration
162
6
Embedding memory, seizing history: South African
resistance poetry in the
1970s
and
1980s 165
Black consciousness and aesthetics
169
Memory and history in Soweto poetry
177
Language and memory
186
Oral influences, ancestors and izibongo
189
Conclusion
196
7
On shifting ground: South African fiction in the
interregnum
199
Monuments and memorials
204
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in literary
consciousness
209
Rewriting the Afrikaner past
217
Writing black history
225
Mandla Langa's fiction of memory
231
Getting beyond apartheid
236
8
Intimations of the postmodern
241
Postmodernism in an African literary context
243
History in
Kojo
Laing and J. M. Coetzee
248
M. G. Vassanji's textual pasts
255
Conclusion: what future postmodernism?
262
Works cited
266
Index
285 |
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