Sentient Pasts, Trauma, and Counter-Narrative: Mapping Memory in the Works of Édouard Glissant, Caryl...

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Abhishek Trehan

Sentient Pasts, Trauma, and Counter-Narrative

Mapping Memory in the Works of Édouard Glissant, Caryl Phillips, and Tierno Monénembo

Abhishek Trehan

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
02 October 2025

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Ethnic studies

Drawing upon the theories of memory studies, this book challenges the historical authenticity of colonialism in the works of Édouard Glissant, Caryl Phillips, and Tierno Monénembo as they seek to place their fiction in the aftermath of reparative histories.

Trehan examines not only the histories of displacement, diasporic traditions, genocidal trauma or continuation of colonialist affiliations in postcolonial societies, but the creative resistance to hegemony. Focusing on the embedded historical memory, the author examines the implications of remembrance (including selective remembering and forgetting) in the process of decolonization—bringing forth the struggle of representation and recognition. This book probes the transmission of traumatic memory across generations by amplifying the nexus between history and memory, reading beyond nation-based interpretations. By comparing the continuity of colonial legacy in the works of Glissant, Phillips, and Monénembo, Trehan examines a model of postcolonial inheritance

to understand how ordinary people relate to the question of political expression by focusing on the colonial history, memory, and trauma.

By: Abhishek Trehan
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9798765188545
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction 1. Reclaiming the Past: Voicing Memory in Édouard Glissant’s The Fourth Century and The Overseer’s Cabin 2. Reimagining the Burden of History: Redeeming Memories in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and Cambridge 3. Renarrating Historical Trauma: Genocidal Memory in Tierno Monénembo’s The Oldest Orphan Conclusion Works Cited

Abhishek Trehan is Assistant Professor of English at D.A.V. College, Chandigarh, India.