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On the colonial war: memories and post-memories, transmission and imagination

The distance between the writer and the traumatic reality about which they write determines the result of literary attempts to convey the experience of violence. Nevertheless, there are similarities between the artistic representations of memory offered by direct witnesses of events and those re-elaborated by their descendants (those we call post-memories).

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24.02.2019 | by Felipe Cammaert