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Memories of violence in Peru and the Congo : writing on the brink
- Title
- Memories of violence in Peru and the Congo : writing on the brink / Gilbert Shang Ndi.
- Author
- Ndi, Gilbert Shang, 1982-
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- xi, 226 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature. Examining a variety of novels that offer insightful representation of violence in their respective historical settings, the author argues that similar historical experiences between Latin America and Africa engender ethical/aesthetic responses and enhance trans-continental critical dialogues in comparative literary studies. In the same way that the drama of the Congo has become the symbolic open wound of (post)colonial dispensation in Africa, Spanish conquest in Latin America also produced spaces where the legacy of colonialism is strongly visible and memorable, providing fertile ground for the reproduction of violence. This book explores the concept and reality of violence beyond its most obvious manifestations, demonstrating how in the colonial contexts of Peru and the Congo, violence was a function of (post)colonial power dynamics and deeply engrained socio-political, economic and cultural ordering and othering. From this perspective, the work considers and re-examines theoretical contributions from authors such as John Galtung, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Wallerstein, Anibal Quijano, Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Eboussi Boulaga, Pierre Nora, Susan Sontag, Stevan Weine, Cathy Caruth and Nelson Maldonado-Torres. This book will be of interest for scholars working on how violence is explored and represented in literature and other art forms"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge African studies
- Uniform Title
- Routledge African studies.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Violence in literature
- Congolese (Democratic Republic) fiction (French) > History and criticism
- Peruvian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- Comparative literature > Congolese (French) and Peruvian
- Comparative literature > Peruvian and Congolese (French)
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Congolese (Democratic Republic) fiction (French)
- Peruvian fiction
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Historical Contexts of Violence in Peru and the Congo -- The Coloniality of Power and the Poetics of Excess/Scarcity -- Ways of Dying: The Horror of Witnessing and the Obscenity of Violence -- Writing the Aftermath: Narratives of Return and Memories of Loss -- Righting the Aftermath: On the Ethics of Recognition -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 22-10212
- ISBN
- 9780367745035
- 0367745038
- 9780367745042
- 0367745046
- LCCN
- 2021019980
- OCLC
- 1256592945
- Author
- Ndi, Gilbert Shang, 1982- author.
- Title
- Memories of violence in Peru and the Congo : writing on the brink / Gilbert Shang Ndi.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge African studiesRoutledge African studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 22-10212