African Pasts: Memory and History in African LiteraturesAfrican 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. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africa's colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence, and scrutinising Africa's contemporary neo-colonial and postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of representation to 'work through' their different traumatic colonial pasts. |
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... drinks , their cars , their acquisition of material goods , manners of speaking , etcetera ) : " There is something so terrible in watching a black man trying at all points to be the dark ghost of a European , and that was what we were ...
... drinks , their cars , their acquisition of material goods , manners of speaking , etcetera ) : " There is something so terrible in watching a black man trying at all points to be the dark ghost of a European , and that was what we were ...
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... drink of cold water on a hot day , but not for too long , and buys some fruit it it's not too softened from lying all day in the sun . ( The Gunny Sack : 39-40 ) History is always missing , both the recent past and the distant past ...
... drink of cold water on a hot day , but not for too long , and buys some fruit it it's not too softened from lying all day in the sun . ( The Gunny Sack : 39-40 ) History is always missing , both the recent past and the distant past ...
Contents
precolonial | 43 |
Critical and traumatic realist pasts | 73 |
Gender memory history | 99 |
Copyright | |
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