Memory as Colonial Capital: Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English

by Erica Johnson

Book Overview

This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and timely issue, as colonial history has served to crush,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319505769
• ISBN13: 9783319505763
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"