Anna Branach-Kallas

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War

The Poetics and Politics of Centenary Interventions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781032633213
• ISBN-10: 1032633212
• Artikelnr.: 69929716

Autorenporträt

Anna Branach-Kallas is a professor at the Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torü, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Savagery, Epistemic Disobedience and Disabled Memory in At
Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
Chapter Two: Palimpsests of Disaster, Maroonage and the French Republican
Discourse in Le Bataillon créole (Guerre de 1914-1918) by Raphaël Confiant
Chapter Three: Biopolitics, Dreams of Freedom and Multidirectional Memory
in Dancing the Death Drill by Fred Khumalo
Chapter Four: Imperial Loyalties, Decolonial Insurgency and Potential
History in A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
Chapter Five: The Colonial Modern, Mimicry and the Aesthetics/Ethics of
Incompletion in Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Conclusion