African pasts : memory and history in African literatures
'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
Print Book, English, 2007
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780719064937, 0719064937
72868354
Figuring African history, memory, and trauma
Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial memory
Critical and traumatic realist pasts
Gender, memory, history
Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of hostages
Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980s
On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum
Intimations of the postmodern
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