Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
Covers a wide variety of texts written in French and English by writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific
Faithful to its comparative approach, the book fosters a critical reading of French and English language texts
Linked by a common set of theoretical concerns and by the practice of comparative study, these yet diverse essays contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history

Includes a foreword by Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA Covers a wide variety of texts written in French and English by writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific Faithful to its comparative approach, the book fosters a critical reading of French and English language texts Linked by a common set of theoretical concerns and by the practice of comparative study, these yet diverse essays contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Erica L. Johnson is Associate Professor in the English Department at Pace University in New York City and the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009) and Home, Maison, Casa (2003). She is also the co-editor with Patricia Moran of The Female Face of Shame (2013) and Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches (2015). She has published widely on modernist and postcolonial literature.
Éloïse Brezault is Assistant Professor at Saint Lawrence University and the author of Johnny Chien Méchant par Emmanuel Dongala (2012), on the representation of child soldiers in Dongala's novel, Johnny Mad Dog. She has published a collection of interviews with Francophone African writers, Afrique, Paroles d'écrivains (2010). She currently works as the associate editor of the academic journal Nouvelles Études Francophones and she has written numerous articles on Francophone African literature and postcolonial studies.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder's and Beah's Problematic Journey to the West, by Éloïse Brezault.- 3. The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau, by Erica L. Johnson.- 4. Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison, by Natalie Edwards.- 5.The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires, by Charles Forsdick.- 6. Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang's La saison des prunes, by Nathalie Carré.- 7. History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar, Judith DeGroat. - 8. On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo's Coral Road, Roy Osamu Kamada.- 9.Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano's Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie, by Judith G. Miller.- 10.'Still in the Difficulty': The Afterlives of Archives, by Wendy Walters.