Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and The Netherlands

Sarah De Mul; Sarah de Mul

doi:10.1017/9789048513857

Colonial Memory

Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and The Netherlands

Exploring the intersections of memory, gender, and the postcolonial, Colonial Memory explores the phenomenon of colonial memory through the specific genre of women's travel writing. Building on criticism of memory and travel writing, Sarah De Mul seeks to open Dutch literature to postcolonial themes and concepts and to insert the history of the Dutch colonies and its critical recollection into the traditionally Anglophone-dominated field of postcolonial studies.

A vividly conceived and theoretically astute reading of the complicated weavings between the past and present involved in memory work and the process of nostalgic return. Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford

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Colonial Memory

Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and The Netherlands

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-8

Introduction: ‘Yesterday Does Not Go By’
pp 9-16

Chapter 1 - A Trip Down Memory Lane. Colonial Memory in Women's Travel Writing
pp 17-32

Chapter 2 - Women’s Memory of Rhodesia, the Dutch East Indies and Dutch and British Cultures of Colonial Remembrance
pp 33-54

Chapter 3 - Nostalgic Memory in Aya Zikken's Terug naar de atlasvlinder
pp 55-80

Chapter 4 - Indo Postmemory in Marion Bloem's Muggen Mensen Olifanten
pp 81-102

Chapter 5 - Everyday Memory in Doris Lessing's African Laughter. Four Visits to Zimbabwe
pp 103-122

Conclusion
pp 123-130

Notes
pp 131-158

Bibliography
pp 159-176

Index
pp 177-180

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