Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Reparation, restitution et les politiques de la memoire - Perspectives from Literary, Historical, and Cultural Studies / Perspectives litteraires, historiques et culturelles (Hardcover)

Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum - in academic discourse as much as in activist, artistic, and political contexts. This development insists on a critique of the material and systemic conditions of societies and global relations. In their 2018 report on the restitution of looted cultural artifacts, for example, Benedicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr discuss restitutions in the light of a new ethics of relations. Individual acts of restitution, but also the processes of material and immaterial reparation that go with them, are viewed as mediators in the by definition irreparable legacy of colonialism and its present repercussions. A new ethics of relations might even go beyond anthropocentrism: The destruction of nature in the Anthropocene and the destruction of humanity that is colonialism both require a fundamental questioning of the premises of western modernity and a radically different relationship to the world. The present volume aims to examine different discourses and practices of reparation, bringing together perspectives from cultural studies, memory studies, post- or decolonial studies as well as literary studies. Chapters from these disciplines are complemented by contributions from the fields of philosophy, art, and literature in order to explore the multiple facets of reparation. With contributions by Kader Attia, Lucia della Fontana, Ibou Coulibaly Diop, Alexandre Gefen, Hannah Grimmer, hn. lyonga, Helena Janeczek, Markus Messling, Clement Nde Fongang, Aurelia Kalisky, Fabiola Obame, Angelica Pesarini, Aurore Reck, Olivier Remaud, Patricia Oster-Stierle, Sahra Rausch, Igiaba Scego, Ibrahima Sene, Christiane Solte-Gresser, Jonas Tinius.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Beyond Universalism / Partager l'universel
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Mario Laarmann • Clement Nde Fongang • Carla Seemann • Laura Vordermayer
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-079950-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence
LSN:	3-11-079950-2
Barcode:	9783110799507

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