Beyond Collective Memory Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature Series
Auteur : Goldblatt Cullen
Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.
Introduction
Part I: Sites of Memory
1. Making Island Stones Speak
2. Recalling Community
Part II: Places of Complicity
3. Skew Intimacies
4. Complicit Expressions
Part III: Imaginaries of Future Freedom
5. Holiday Time in the Twentieth Century
6. Archives of Future Freedom
Coda
Cullen Goldblatt is a scholar, writer, and translator. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. His essays have been published in forums such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, and in the volume Crossings and Comparisons (LuKa – Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas).
Date de parution : 09-2023
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Camp De Thiaroye; Young Man; collective memory; Memory Discourse; racist violence; Cape Town; resistant community; Structural Complicity; African Colonial Soldiers; Senegalese location; South African Narratives; Lat Dior; El Haj; Senghorian Negritude; National Heritage; Blaise Diagne; Apartheid Violence; CPUT; Structural Violence; Anti-apartheid Resistance; Military Cemetery; Colonial Administration; Robben Island; Qui; Babi Yar; Lebu; La Chinoise; CATO MANOR; Rim