African pasts: Memory and history in African literaturesAfrican pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represents 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. |
Contents
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precolonial memory | 43 |
3 Critical and traumatic realist pasts | 73 |
4 Gender memory history | 99 |
history through the eyes of hostages | 133 |
South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980s | 165 |
South African fiction in the interregnum | 199 |
8 Intimations of the postmodern | 241 |
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