Memory as Colonial Capital: Cross-Cultural Encounters in French and English (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

by Marianne Hirsch (Foreword), Marianne Hirsch (Foreword), Éloïse Brezault (Editor), Erica L. Johnson (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2017

  $144.73

  This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works.