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Author:   Sakiru Adebayo
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780472076239

ISBN 10:   047207623
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   30 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction:The Past is Full of Ruptures 0.1 Memories of Conflict and Conflicts of Memory in Post-Colonial Africa 0.2 Postcolonial Memory Studies 0.3 Frictions of Memory 0.4 Fiction of Memory in Post-Conflict Africa 0.5 Outline of the Book Chapter 1: The Past is a Contested Territory: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Postmemory Fiction 1.1 The Shadow of Biafra 1.2. Postmemory 1.3 Chimamanda Adichie as a Vicarious Witness 1.4 Aesthetics of Postmemory in Half of Yellow Sun 1.5 Remembering Back and Writing Back: The Nexus Between Postmemory and Postcolonialism in Half of a Yellow Sun 1.6 Remediation of Memory 1.7 Postmemory and the Possibility of Justice for Biafra 1.8 Concatenated Memories, Ancestral Memories Chapter 2: The Past Continues in Silence: Memory, Complicity and the Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of Love 2.1 Reading Silence 2.2 A Sense of Something Unspoken: The Memory of Love as Textual Silence 2.2 Silence of Trauma 2.3 Silence of Oppression 2.4 A Culture of Silence 2.5 Silent and Silenced Memories 2.6 Silence of Complicity 2.7 The Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of Love Chapter 3: The Past Continues in Another Country: African Transnational Memory in a Migratory Setting 3.1 Immigrant Melancholia 3.2 Memory, Translocalities and Alternative Practices of Belonging in Children of the Revolution 3.3 In Search of an African Transnational Memory Chapter 4: The Past Continues through Subject Positions: Memory, Subjectivity and Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of Imana 4.1 African Transnational Memory and the Rwandan Genocide 4.2 Sites and Sutures of Memory: Veronique Tadjo’s Affective Encounters 4.3 Memory and Positionality: Intricacies of Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of Imana Chapter 5: The Past Continues in the Future   References

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"Winner: 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism-- ""Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism"" ""Continuous Pasts offers a much-needed Africa-centered contribution to memory and trauma studies from a literary perspective, and Adebayo is just the scholar to make such a contribution. As the book reveals, he has a near encyclopedic knowledge of recent approaches to trauma and memory as well as a broad knowledge of African literature, history, culture, and criticism. This is the book we've been waiting for!"" --Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators--Michael Rothberg"

Winner: 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism-- Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism

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Sakiru Adebayo is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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