CfP/CfA Veranstaltungen

Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Sites and Symbols in the Modern Francosphere

Deadline Abstract
30.04.2020

Postcolonial Realms of Memory. Sites and Symbols in the Modern Francosphere

Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

International conference

Call for papers

Invited speakers:

Étienne Achille (Villanova University)
Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California)
Debarati Sanyal (University of California, Berkeley)
Hue Tam Ho Tai (Harvard University)
Robert Young (New York University)

Recognized as one of the most influential studies of memory in the late twentieth century, Pierre Nora’s monumental project Les Lieux de mémoire has been celebrated for its elaboration of a ground-breaking paradigm for rethinking the relationship between the nation, territory, history and memory. It has also, however, been criticized for implying a narrow perception of national memory from which the legacy of colonialism was excluded.

Driven by an increasingly critical postcolonial discourse on French historiography and fueled by the will to acknowledge the relevance of the colonial in the making of modern and contemporary France, the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Liverpool, 2020) addresses in a collective and sustained manner this critical gap by postcolonializing the French Republic’s lieux de mémoire. The various chapters discern and explore an initial repertoire of realms and sites in France and the so-called Outremer that crystalize traces of colonial memory, while highlighting its inherent dialectical relationship with firmly instituted national memory.

This conference seeks to consolidate and diversify further the volume’s work in making visible the thread that links the colonial to various manifestations of French heritage. The objective is to bring into sharp focus the ways in which the colonial aspect is inextricably intertwined with collective memory, and in particular to consider lieux de mémoire that are not covered in the volume, but which are also important parts of the network of sites and memories that have often been silenced by French national memory.

We therefore invite proposals for papers that share the volume’s intention to expand and rethink notions of French collective memory, and that additionally engage with the theme as it appears in colonial and postcolonial sites in the wider Francosphere.

Please submit your proposal by 30 April 2020: 

https://winthropking.fsu.edu/event/postcolonial-realms-memory-sites-and-symbols-modern-francosphere

Quelle der Beschreibung: Information des Anbieters

Forschungsgebiete

Französische Literatur, Postkoloniale Literaturtheorie
Memory studies

Links

Einrichtungen

Florida State University (FSU)
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
Datum der Veröffentlichung: 03.02.2020
Letzte Änderung: 03.02.2020