Friends and Enemies Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines

By Chris Bongie

Subjects: Västindisk litteratur (franskspråkig), Politics and literature, Caribbean literature, Historia, Postcolonialism in literature, Colonies in literature, Kultur- och samhällsliv, Postkoloniale Literatur, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Postkolonialismus, Literatures, Postcolonialism, Postkolonialism i litteraturen

Description: Bongie explores the commemoration and commodification of the post/colonial using early nineteenth-century Caribbean texts alongside contemporary works. Taking Haiti as a key example he writes lucidly of the processes by which Haiti?s world-historical revolution has been commemorated both in the colonial era and in our own postcolonial age--an age in which it is increasingly difficult to separate the reality of memories of anti-colonial resistance from the processes of commodification through which alone those memories can now be thought.