1st Edition
Memory and Identity Ghosts of the Past in the English-speaking World
Introduction
Memory and identity: ghosts of the past in the English-speaking world
LINDA PILLIÈRE AND KARINE BIGAND
Part 1: Shackled identities
1. Ghosts of the past and the Oxford English Dictionary
Charlotte Brewer
2. The invisible American shoeshine boy: creation and persistence of a ghostly icon
Anne Lesme
3. Australian ghosts: representations of the past in Australia
John Potts
4. Ghosts from the future: post-apocalyptic narratives in Scotland and the displacement of memory
Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon
Part 2: Multi-layered identities
5. Ghosting the Victorians in A.S. Byatt, Kate Atkinson and Michèle Roberts’s neo-Victorian fiction
Armelle Parey
6. Whose past is it before us? The shaping of identity in Scotland’s 2014 referendum on independence
Philip Rycroft
7. Haunted by the lessons of the ‘the good war’: post-Cold War contestation of World War II narratives
Marjorie Galelli and Michael Stricof
Part 3: Reclaimed Identities
8. Haunting in a postcolony: race, place and intergenerational trauma on a South African campus
Veeran Naicker and Kathy Luckett
9. First World War memorial ghosts and the reshaping of South African identity: remembering the SS Mendi in Delville Wood
Gilles Teulié
10. Blyton’s ghosts: childhood receptions in India and Britain
Tanvi Chowdhary and Sara Thornton
11. Decolonial poetics: ghosts of coloniality, capitalism, and care in contemporary anglophone literature
Fiona McCann
Biography
Linda Pillière is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She is the co-editor of Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language and Standardisation and Variation in English Language(s) and author of Intralingual Translation of British Novels: A Multimodal Stylistic Perspective.
Karine Bigand is Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has recently co-authored Faces and Places. Northern Ireland, 1975–2020.
