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African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Figuring African history and memory memory and self trauma 2. Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial memory
3. Critical and traumatic realist pasts
4. Gender, memory, history
5. Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of hostages
6. Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980s
7. On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum
8. Intimations of the postmodern
Index

African Pasts Memory and History in African

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 5/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719064944, 978-0719064944
    ISBN10: 0719064945
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    Literary studies: postcolonial literature

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Figuring African history and memory memory and self trauma 2. Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial memory
    3. Critical and traumatic realist pasts
    4. Gender, memory, history
    5. Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of hostages
    6. Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980s
    7. On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum
    8. Intimations of the postmodern
    Index

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