African Pasts :: Memory and History in African Literatures.
Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of w...
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| Summary: | Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of writers imprisoned for their political beliefs. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526130792 1526130793 |
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| spelling | Woods, Tim. African Pasts : Memory and History in African Literatures. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018. 1 online resource (304 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Print version record. AFRICAN PASTS: Memory and history in African literatures; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Figuring African history, memory and trauma; Memory and self; Trauma; 2 Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial memory; Precolonial history: Elechi Amadi; Oral narratives and the past: Tutuola and Okara; Memory and healing: the archetypal case of Ayi Kwei Armah; Loss or lack?; 3 Critical and traumatic realist pasts; Ngugi, history and memory; Other realisms; Traumatic realism and 'postmemory'; 4 Gender, memory, history. Memory-work and the 'double yoke'Unfixing stereotypes of African womanhood; 'A great big void': Tsitsi Dangarembga and women's memory; Oppressive memories; 'A nothingness so strong that it was a presence': the violation of colonialism in Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita; Conclusion; 5 Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of hostages; 'Interstices of freedom': language and representation; The self in prison; The body under torture; The roles of history and memory; Chronotopes of incarceration. 6 Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980sBlack consciousness and aesthetics; Memory and history in Soweto poetry; Language and memory; Oral influences, ancestors and; Conclusion; 7 On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum; Monuments and memorials; The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in literary consciousness; Rewriting the Afrikaner past; Writing black history; Mandla Langa's fiction of memory; Getting beyond apartheid; 8 Intimations of the postmodern; Postmodernism in an African literary context. History in Kojo Laing and J.M. CoetzeeM. G. Vassanji's textual pasts; Conclusion: what future postmodernism?; Works cited; Index. Explores African literature in the post-colonial era, as a traumatic response to the effects of colonialism. Among other issues, it deals with literature in the era of apartheid, the early post-apartheid years in literature, postmodern African fiction and the response to colonialism in the work of writers imprisoned for their political beliefs. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. African literature (English) History and criticism. Memory in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083503 Postcolonialism in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002010213 Africa In literature. Littérature africaine (anglaise) Histoire et critique. Mémoire dans la littérature. Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. Afrique Dans la littérature. Literature: History & Criticism. bicssc LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh African literature (English) History and criticism. blmlsh Memory in literature. blmlsh Postcolonialism in literature. blmlsh Africa In literature. blmlsh African literature (English) fast Literature fast Memory in literature fast Postcolonialism in literature fast Africa fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3 Postkoloniale Literatur gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4428936-4 Geschichtsbild gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4071769-0 Kollektives Gedächtnis gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4200793-8 Literatur gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4035964-5 Afrika gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4000695-5 Englisch. swd Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast has work: African pasts (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFxjxcVcXFFh7F7Qcd3wvd https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Woods, Tim. African Pasts : Memory and History in African Literatures. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2018 |
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