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African Pasts - Memory and History in African Literatures (Paperback)
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African Pasts - Memory and History in African Literatures (Paperback)
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'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have
forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The
Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, and this provides the
overarching thematic concept for African pasts as a whole.
Colonialism for Africans is not an event encapsulated in the past,
but is a history whose repercussions and traumatic consequences are
still actively evolving in today's political, historical, cultural
and artistic scenes. 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. Among other issues, this book deals with literature in the
era of apartheid, the post-apartheid aftermath, metafictional
experiments in African fiction, gender representation in reaction
to the trauma of colonialism and 'imprisonment narratives'. African
pasts covers a wide range of African literatures (drawn from West,
East and Southern Africa) and a cross-section of genres - fiction,
poetry, prison-narratives, postcolonial theory - and embraces such
well-known writers as Soyinka, Coetzee, Ngugi and Achebe, and more
recent writers such as Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat
Dangor, Etienne van Heerden, Zakes Mda, Gillian Slovo and Calixthe
Beyala.
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