Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-14038-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, performances, and displays of memory serve to obscure and elide aspects of the history of colonial governmentality? This collection addresses these and other questions in essays that take up the varied legacies, continuities, modes of memorialization, and poetics of remaking that attend colonial governmentality in spaces as varied as the Maghreb and the Solomon Islands. Highlighting the continued injustices arising from a process whose aftermath is far from settled, the contributors examine works by twentieth-century authors representing Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Michael R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Continuities: Neocolonialism and Governmentality; 1: Regarding Self-Governmentality: Transactional Accidents and Indigeneity in Cape York Peninsula, Australia 1; 2: Postcolonial Security, Development, and Biopolitics: Targeting Women’s Lives in Solomon Islands; 3: “Backdoor Entry” to Australia: A Genealogy of (Post)colonial Resentment; 4: Interculturalism, Settler Colonialism, and the Contest Over “Nativeness”; II: Literature and Culture After Colonial Governmentality; 5: “The World is Spoilt in the White Man’s Time”: Imagining Postcolonial Temporalities; 6: Remembering Histories of Care: Clinic and Archive in Anil’s Ghost; 7: Embodied Memories: Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Multiple Genealogies in Deborah Miranda’s; 8: Post-Presentational: The Literature of Colonial Memory in Australia and Latin America After Neoliberalism; 9: Sedimented Colonizations in the Maghrebine Writings of Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, and Paul Bowles; 10: Memory is an Archipelago: Glissant, Chamoiseau, and the Literary Expression of Cultural Memory; 11: Precarious/Sense: Memory and the Poetics of Spatial Performance; 12: “Speaking Darwish” in Neoliberal Palestine

Über Autor(innen)

Michael R. Griffiths is a lecturer in the School of the Arts, English, and Media at the University of Wollongong NSW.