Michael R. Griffiths

Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780367140380
• ISBN-10: 0367140381
• Artikelnr.: 56925227

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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