Books by Wendy W. Walters
This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and ... more This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. theorize and employ postcolonial memory in ways that expose or challenge colonial narratives of the past, and shows how memory assumes particular forms and values in post/colonial contexts in twenty and twenty-first-century works. The problem of contested memory and colonial history continues to be an urgent and timely issue, as colonial history has served to crush, erase and manipulate collective and individual memories. Indeed, the most powerful mechanism of colonial discourse is that which alters and silences local histories and even individuals’ memories in service to colonial authority. Johnson and Brezault work to contextualize the politics of writing memory in the shadow of colonial history, creating a collection that pioneers a postcolonial turn in cultural memory studies suitable for scholars interested in cultural memory, postcolonial, Francophone and ethnic studies.
Table of contents:
Foreword: “Memory and Its Discontents,” Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Introduction, Éloïse Brezault and Erica L. Johnson
Part I: Memory and Memoir
“The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder’s and Beah’s Problematic Journey to the West,” Éloïse Brezault, Saint Lawrence University
“The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau,” Erica L. Johnson, Pace University
“Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison,” Natalie Edwards, University of Adelaide
Part II: Memory and History
“The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires,” Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
“Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang’s La saison des prunes,” Nathalie Carré, INALCO Paris
“History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar,” Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University
Part III: Memory, Nation, and Diaspora
“On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road,” Roy Osamu Kamada, Emerson College
“Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano’s Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie,” Judith G. Miller, NYU
“‘Still in the Difficulty’: The Afterlives of Archives,” Wendy Walters, Emerson College
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Walters, Wendy W. Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History. NY: Rou... more Walters, Wendy W. Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History. NY: Routledge, 2013, Chapter 6.
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This chapter examines how Black American experimental art forms deploy non-sovereign histories in... more This chapter examines how Black American experimental art forms deploy non-sovereign histories in tracing the relationships between possible pasts, inhabited presents, and imagined futures. The story of the eighteenth-century slave ship Zong is linked to the events of Hurricane Katrina, via the work of poet Claudia Rankine and filmmaker Cauleen Smith. These artists engage a poetics of the archive through multiple timescapes, rejecting the limits of dominant temporalities and bounded nation-state geographies. Their work posits modes of resistance to everyday and institutionalized racism, speculating about other ways of being, and insisting on radical imagination as a political project of aspiration towards social justice.
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Choice Reviews Online, 2006
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Translation Review, 1992
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Pacific Coast Philology, 1992
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Books by Wendy W. Walters
Table of contents:
Foreword: “Memory and Its Discontents,” Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Introduction, Éloïse Brezault and Erica L. Johnson
Part I: Memory and Memoir
“The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder’s and Beah’s Problematic Journey to the West,” Éloïse Brezault, Saint Lawrence University
“The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau,” Erica L. Johnson, Pace University
“Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison,” Natalie Edwards, University of Adelaide
Part II: Memory and History
“The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires,” Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
“Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang’s La saison des prunes,” Nathalie Carré, INALCO Paris
“History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar,” Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University
Part III: Memory, Nation, and Diaspora
“On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road,” Roy Osamu Kamada, Emerson College
“Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano’s Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie,” Judith G. Miller, NYU
“‘Still in the Difficulty’: The Afterlives of Archives,” Wendy Walters, Emerson College
Papers by Wendy W. Walters
Table of contents:
Foreword: “Memory and Its Discontents,” Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Introduction, Éloïse Brezault and Erica L. Johnson
Part I: Memory and Memoir
“The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder’s and Beah’s Problematic Journey to the West,” Éloïse Brezault, Saint Lawrence University
“The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau,” Erica L. Johnson, Pace University
“Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison,” Natalie Edwards, University of Adelaide
Part II: Memory and History
“The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires,” Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
“Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang’s La saison des prunes,” Nathalie Carré, INALCO Paris
“History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar,” Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University
Part III: Memory, Nation, and Diaspora
“On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road,” Roy Osamu Kamada, Emerson College
“Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano’s Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie,” Judith G. Miller, NYU
“‘Still in the Difficulty’: The Afterlives of Archives,” Wendy Walters, Emerson College