Memory and Postcolonial Studies

Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham, Member of the Academia Europaea, Honorary President of the International Raabe Society, and Co-Director of Nottingham’s Research Priority Area «Languages, Texts and Society». He completed his Dr phil (1986) and his Habilitation (1999) at the University of Münster. Recent publications include Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature (2013), (Post-) Colonialism across Europe (co-ed., 2014) and Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur (co-ed., 2017).

• CONTENTS: Dirk Gottsche – History or memory? Postcolonial politics of memory in Bernhard Jaumann’s Der lange Schatten and M. G. Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida – Berny Sebe: Cross-cultural memory in postcolonial contexts: European imperial heroes in twenty-first-century Africa – Richard Tsogang Fossi: The memory of German, French and British colonialism in Cameroonian postcolonial literature – Emanuelle Santos: Memory and the contemporary postcolonial condition in Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s novel A General Theory of Oblivion – Abigail Ward: Long-memoried women: Slavery and memory in contemporary Black women’s poetry – Hannah-Rose Murray: «My name is not Tom»: Josiah Henson’s fight to reclaim his identity in Britain, 1876–877 – Stephanie Lewthwaite: Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez – Antonia Wimbush: «Effacer mes mauvaises pensees»: Memory, writing and trauma in Nina Bouraoui’s autofiction – Rebekah Vince: Pulled in all directions: The Shoah, colonialism and exile in Valerie Zenatti’s novel Jacob, Jacob – Alex Hastie: Proximate spaces of violence: Multidirectional memory in Rachid Bouchareb’s films Days of Glory and Outside the Law – Fang Tang: The reconstruction of history and cultural memory in contemporary Chinese-American women’s life-writing: A comparative study of two memoirs – Rosemary Chapman: Literary history and memory in Quebec – Anneliese Hatton: Post-national Portuguese literature: Reconfiguring the imperial master narrative – Heike Bartel: Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyun and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar – Victoria Carpenter: «2 October is not forgotten»: Tlatelolco 1968 massacre and social memory frameworks – Christopher Davis: Writing Rwanda: The languages of killing and suffering – Spencer Jordan: Digital storytelling and performative memory: New approaches to the literary geography of the postcolonial city – Monika Albrecht: Comparative Postcolonial Studies: Southeastern European history as (post-) colonial history – Yannis G. S. Papadopoulos: Collective trauma, transgenerational identity, shared memory: Public TV series dealing with the Ottoman Empire and Anatolian refugees in Greece – Benedikts Kalnačs: The working memory in contemporary Latvian culture and society: Between postcolonialism and postcommunism – Vladimir Zorić: The Danube archipelago: The hydropoetics of river islands – Alun Thomas: An empire remembered? Collectivization and colonialism in Mukhamet Shayakhmetov’s memoir The Silent Steppe.