Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire: Perspectives from Literary, Historical, ... Universalism / Partager l’universel, 3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110799502 ISBN 13: 9783110799507

Verlag: De Gruyter, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum – in academic discourse as much as in activist, artistic, and political contexts.

This development insists on a critique of the material and systemic conditions of societies and global relations. In their 2018 report on the restitution of looted cultural artifacts, for example, Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr discuss restitutions in the light of a new ethics of relations. Individual acts of restitution, but also the processes of material and immaterial reparation that go with them, are viewed as mediators in the by definition irreparable legacy of colonialism and its present repercussions. A new ethics of relations might even go beyond anthropocentrism: The destruction of nature in the Anthropocene and the destruction of humanity that is colonialism both require a fundamental questioning of the premises of western modernity and a radically different relationship to the world.

The present volume aims to examine different discourses and practices of reparation, bringing together perspectives from cultural studies, memory studies, post- or decolonial studies as well as literary studies. Chapters from these disciplines are complemented by contributions from the fields of philosophy, art, and literature in order to explore the multiple facets of reparation.

With contributions by Kader Attia, Lucia della Fontana, Ibou Coulibaly Diop, Alexandre Gefen, Hannah Grimmer, hn. lyonga, Helena Janeczek, Markus Messling, Clément Ndé Fongang, Aurélia Kalisky, Fabiola Obame, Angelica Pesarini, Aurore Reck, Olivier Remaud, Patricia Oster-Stierle, Sahra Rausch, Igiaba Scego, Ibrahima Sene, Christiane Solte-Gresser, Jonas Tinius.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Clément Ndé Fongang, Mario Laarmann, Carla Seemann and Laura Vordermayer, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Over the past years, the concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum – in academic as much as in activist, artistic, and political contexts. How can the humanities address structural injustices and by definition irreparable crimes against humanity in order to contribute to a better future? To answer this question, the present volume brings together perspectives from the arts, from cultural, memory, post- or decolonial studies, and from literary studies.

Au cours des dernières années, les concepts de réparation, de restitution et de culture mémorielle ont de nouveau gagné en importance – dans des contextes universitaires, activistes, artistiques, aussi bien que politiques. Comment les humanités peuvent-elles adresser des injustices structurelles et des crimes contre l’humanité par définition irréparables, pour contribuer à un meilleur avenir ? Pour répondre à cette question, le présent volume fait dialoguer les perspectives des arts, des études culturelles, mémorielles, post- ou décoloniales, ainsi que des lettres.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3110799502
• ISBN 13: 9783110799507
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 309
• Herausgeber: Laarmann Mario, Ndé Fongang Clément, Seemann Carla, Vordermayer Laura
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Theaterstraße 13; Göttingen; 37073; Deutschland