1st Edition
Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture
By Michael R. Griffiths
Copyright 2016
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
Biography
Michael R. Griffiths is a lecturer in the School of the Arts, English, and Media at the University of Wollongong NSW.






