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Memory as Colonial Capital

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If colonial history was long written by the victor, this means that memory was crushed, erased, and manipulated by its violent sweep. While the former issue has been widely studied and addressed since the advent of postcolonial studies, the latter has been the focus of much more recent work in cultural memory studies in what we see as a postcolonial turn in the field.

Qu’est-ce qu’une Trace-mémoires? C’est un espace oublié par l’Histoire et par la Mémoire-une, car elle témoigne des histoires dominées, des mémoires écrasées, et tend à les préserver. [What is a Memory-trace? It’s the space forgotten by History and by monolithic Memory, since it witnesses dominated histories, erased memories, and tends to preserve them.]

—Patrick Chamoiseau, Guyane: Traces-mémoires du bagne

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  1. St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA

    Éloïse Brezault

  2. Pace University, New York, NY, USA

    Erica L. Johnson

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    Éloïse Brezault

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Brezault, É., Johnson, E.L. (2017). Introduction. In: Johnson, E., Brezault, É. (eds) Memory as Colonial Capital. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50577-0_1

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