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Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most
established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but
it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of "memory
work" that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid
bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film,
recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with
Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As
Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the
subjectivity of the victim is problematic, reproducing simplistic
narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions
of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and
identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for
confronting painful histories.
On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of
Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What,
if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative
fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and
the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert
Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction
both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It
highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in
Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of
transnational and planetary connections articulated in it.
Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book
thinks through Anglophone literature not merely as a crippling
legacy of colonial rule, or as exoticizing commodity in a global
literary marketplace, but as an inherently transcultural literary
medium that facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences
of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities
within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.
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