African Pasts
Memory and History in African Literatures
Woods, Tim
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BOOK SUMMARY
African Pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africas colonisatio
BOOK SYNOPSIS
African Pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of Africa’s colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence, and scrutinising Africa’s contemporary neo-colonial and postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of representation to ‘work through’ their different traumatic colonial pasts.
AUTHOR BIO
Tim Woods is Professor of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0719064937
ISBN(13-digit): 9780719064937
Dewey Decimal: 820.996
Library of Congress: oc2007087097
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 291
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