Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo: Writing on the Brink

ISBN-13: 9780367745035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 226 str.

Gilbert Shang Ndi

Opis

The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature. It will be of interest for scholars working on how violence is explored and represented in literature and other art forms.

Spis treści

General Introduction  1. Historical Contexts of Violence in Peru and the Congo  2. The Coloniality of Power and the Poetics of Excess/Scarcity  3. Ways of Dying: The Horror of Witnessing and the Obscenity of Violence  4. Writing the Aftermath: Narratives of Return and Memories of Loss  5. Righting the Aftermath: On the Ethics of Recognition  General Conclusion

O autorze

Gilbert Shang Ndi is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Cluster of Excellence – Africa Multiple, at the University of Bayreuth, working on the Project: Black Atlantic Revisited: African and South American UNESCO-World Heritage Sites and "Shadowed Spaces" of Performative Memory. A member of the Junges Kolleg (Young Colleague) Programme of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Munich), he recently completed a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. He received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Bayreuth in 2014. Gilbert Shang Ndi is the author of State/Society: Narrating Transformations in Selected African Novels (2017) and has coedited Tracks and Traces of Violence (2017) and Re-Writing Pasts, Imagining Futures: Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater (2017).