This book is a collection of essays from the conference -Re/membering Place-, held at Stendhal University from 13 to 15 October 2011. It explores the issue of -Re/membering Place- in a colonial and postcolonial context of displacement, loss, and alienation. The authors consider -re/membering- as a process of reconstruction which entails the recreation of memory, be it individual or collective, the re-appropriation of the past and of collective myths, the reshaping of identity, and their representation in literature and the arts. They tackle various forms of story-telling in fiction,...