Beyond Collective Memory: Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives

by Cullen Goldblatt

Overview

Beyond Collective Memory investigates the elisions of "memory," and invites an exploration of the African pasts and imaginaries that exist beyond it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367558758
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2022
Series:	Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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