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Beyond Collective Memory - Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives (Hardcover)
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Beyond Collective Memory - Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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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. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both
places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has
obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid
violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions
that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions
of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the
dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African
pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.
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