TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldblatt,Cullen
TI  - Beyond collective memory: structural complicity and future freedoms in Senegalese and South African narratives 
T2  - Routledge studies in comparative literature
SN  - 1000195163
AV  - PQ3980.5 
U1  - 840.9/35866303 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Routledge
KW  - African literature (French)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - South African literature (English)
KW  - Collective memory and literature
KW  - Collective memory and motion pictures
KW  - Violence in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / African
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Thiaroye-sur-Mer (Senegal)
KW  - In literature
KW  - In motion pictures
KW  - District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)
N1  - Introduction -- Sites of Memory -- Making Island Stones Speak -- Recalling Community -- Places of Complicity -- Skew Intimacies -- Complicit Expressions -- Imaginaries of Future Freedom -- Holiday Time in the Twentieth Century -- Archives of Future Freedom -- Coda
N2  - Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003095538
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -