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Author:

Adebayo, Sakiru, author.

Title:

Continuous pasts : frictions of memory in postcolonial Africa / Sakiru Adebayo.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xi, 183 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1900-2099
African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
African literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism--Africa.
Collective memory--Africa.
Memory--Sociological aspects.
Memory in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
African literature
Collective memory
Postcolonialism
Africa
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Other Authors:

University of Michigan. Press, publisher. pbl

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-171) and index.

Contents:

The past is full of ruptures -- The past is a contested territory: Half of a yellow sun as a postmemory fiction -- The past continues in silence: memory, complicity, and the post-conflict timescapes in The memory of love -- The past continues in another country: African transnational memory in a migratory setting -- The past continues through subject positions: memory, subjectivity, and secondary witnessing in The shadow of Imana.

Summary:

"In 'Continuous Pasts', author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched on bodies and topographies, resonant in silences and memorials, and continuous even in experiences as well as structures of migration. Adebayo argues that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa invites critical deliberations on the continuity of the past within the realm of positionality and the domain of subjectivity--that is to say, the past is not merely present; instead, it survives, lives on, and is mediated through the subject positions of victims, perpetrators, as well as secondary and transgenerational witnesses. The book also argues that post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa shows the unfinished business of the past produces fragile regimes of peace and asynchronous temporalities that challenge progressive historicism. 'Continuous Pasts' shows how post-conflict fictions of memory in Africa recalibrate discourses of futurity, solidarity, responsibility, justice, survival, and reconciliation. Each text analyzed in the book provides, in very interesting ways, an imaginative possibility and template for how post-independence African countries can 'remember together' using what the author describes as an African transnational memory framework."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Series:

African perspectives

ISBN:

047207623X
9780472076239
0472056239
9780472056231

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1334884462

LCCN:

2023935170

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)