Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 3842383
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.3726/b14024
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781788744782
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As set out in his single-authored theoretical Introduction (14,120 words), Göttsche developed the conceptual framework for this interdisciplinary and international volume exploring and rethinking the interface between Postcolonial Studies, Memory Studies and Comparative Literature. The 579–page book is based on the conference of the same title he organised in June 2016, supported by an award from the University of Nottingham’s Research Priority Area ‘Languages, Texts and Society’, to which most of the 22 authors from five countries and a range of subjects such as Modern Languages, English, Comparative Literature, History, and Cultural Studies (Kulturwissenschaften) contributed. As well as providing the volume’s intellectual direction and shape, Göttsche contributed his own single-authored case study ‘History or Memory? Postcolonial Politics of Memory in Bernhard Jaumann’s “Der lange Schatten” and M.G. Vassanji’s “The Magic of Saida”’ (10,686 words). This chapter promotes comparative Postcolonial Studies from a neglected comparative literary perspective that interlinks discourses about Africa in Anglophone world literature and contemporary German literature in terms of their politics of memory and their poetics of memory. The peer-reviewed volume is part of an established series in Cultural Memory Studies.
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