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Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture
Michael R. Griffiths
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.
240 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 17, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780367140380 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 490 g |
| Language | English |
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