Titlebook: Memory as Colonial Capital; Cross-Cultural Encou Erica L. Johnson,élo?se Brezault Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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2634-6257 m the U.S., the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, 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

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The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder’s and Beah’s Problematic Journey tomonstrates that this very recent evidence of the pervasive nature of colonial memory makes the topic of memory as political discourse and cultural capital not only an important lens through which to view the past, but an urgent problem of the present as well.

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Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang’s ,ue of the narration of History more broadly. Can the Subaltern really speak and be heard? This chapter examines how historical sources can be used not only for reexamining national past history, but also for effectively building the future.

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History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebarffers a site of postmemory for Djebar’s recounting of generations of Algerian women, especially those from the time of Roland’s exile. In Dejbar’s history of lost voices, Roland’s words become part of the palimpsest that reveals women’s memories and traumas in both colonial and postcolonial settings.

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On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo’s ,to create an alternative cultural and historical text that can function as a counter archive to the traumas of Hongo’s racialized experience of colonialism, one that navigates the rift between Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) and Settler representations of Hawai‘i.