1st Edition
Beyond Collective Memory Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives
By Cullen Goldblatt
Copyright 2021
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community.... Read more
Introduction
Part I: Sites of Memory
1. Making Island Stones Speak
2. Recalling Community
Part II: Places of Complicity
3. Skew Intimacies
4. Complicit Expressions
Part III: Imaginaries of Future Freedom
5. Holiday Time in the Twentieth Century
6. Archives of Future Freedom
Coda
Biography
Cullen Goldblatt is a scholar, writer, and translator. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. His essays have been published in forums such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, and in the volume Crossings and Comparisons (LuKa – Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas).
