From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, performances, and displays of memory serve to obscure and elide aspects of the history of colonial governmentality? This collection addresses these and other questions in essays that take up the varied legacies, continuities, modes of memorialization, and poetics of remaking that attend colonial governmentality in spaces as varied as the Maghreb and the Solomon Islands. Highlighting the continued injustices arising from a process whose aftermath is far from settled, the contributors examine works by twentieth-century authors representing Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe.
I: Continuities: Neocolonialism and Governmentality; 1: Regarding
Self-Governmentality: Transactional Accidents and Indigeneity in Cape York
Peninsula, Australia 1; 2: Postcolonial Security, Development, and
Biopolitics: Targeting Womens Lives in Solomon Islands; 3: Backdoor Entry
to Australia: A Genealogy of (Post)colonial Resentment; 4: Interculturalism,
Settler Colonialism, and the Contest Over Nativeness; II: Literature and
Culture After Colonial Governmentality; 5: The World is Spoilt in the White
Mans Time: Imagining Postcolonial Temporalities; 6: Remembering Histories
of Care: Clinic and Archive in Anils Ghost; 7: Embodied Memories: Settler
Colonial Biopolitics and Multiple Genealogies in Deborah Mirandas; 8:
Post-Presentational: The Literature of Colonial Memory in Australia and Latin
America After Neoliberalism; 9: Sedimented Colonizations in the Maghrebine
Writings of Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar, and Paul Bowles; 10: Memory is an
Archipelago: Glissant, Chamoiseau, and the Literary Expression of Cultural
Memory; 11: Precarious/Sense: Memory and the Poetics of Spatial Performance;
12: Speaking Darwish in Neoliberal Palestine
Michael R. Griffiths is a lecturer in the School of the Arts, English, and Media at the University of Wollongong NSW.
