Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Parchments Are More Patient than Humans
	Palimpsests in Theory
	Ethnic and Postcolonial Palimpsests
	Structure of Volume
	References
Part I: Scraping off and Writing/Painting Over: Revisiting the Archive
	Chapter 2: Palimpsestuous Historiographies in Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents and Karen Tei Yamashita’s I-Hotel
		Introduction: The Palimpsest and the Archive
		The Paradox of Historical Recovery
		The Palimpsest of Colonial Intimacies in Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents
		The Palimpsest of Activism in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I-Hotel
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: The Body as a Palimpsest: Stor(y)ing Memories in Michelle Cliff’s Clare Savage Novels and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora
		Introduction
		Neo-slave Narratives and Postcolonial Counter-Discourses as Palimpsests
		Corregidora
		The Clare Savage Novels
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4: Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts
		Introduction
		Heterotopias in Motion and in Dialogue: Theoretical Considerations
		“Gibraltar of the Chesapeake”: Multifunctional Fort Monroe
		Constructed from the Sea: Fort Marion and Its Waves of Inlanders
		View from the Parapet: Littoral Ledger Drawings
		Two-Way Interaction with “Voices Often Choppy as the Waves”: Diane Glancy’s Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education
		Conclusion
		References
Part II: Contested and Interwoven Histories: The City as Palimpsest in Literature and Culture
	Chapter 5: Littoral/Literal Watermarks: Layers of Signification in Maritime Marseille
		Introduction—Allons enfants…!
		Marseille: A Sensory and Cultural Palimpsest
		Marseille “in the Hexagon”: Pagnol’s People
		McKay’s Banjo: Marseille as Pan-African Juke Joint
		The Empire (Finally) Writes Back: Ousmane’s Le docker noir
		A Song of Profoundest Exile: James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk
		Conclusion: Marseille in World Mythology and Literature
		References
	Chapter 6: Memory, History, and Identity: Postcolonial Urban Palimpsests in the Writing of Ivan Vladislavić
		Introduction
		Configuring the (Postcolonial) Palimpsest
		Reinventing Memory in Postcolonial Public Spaces
		“It Is Our Duty to Be Authentic” (Or Is It?): Signposts of History in the Present
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Ominous Borders, Liminal Bridges: Narrative Palimpsests of Cultural History and Racial Subjectivity in Alejandro Morales’s Epic Novel River of Angels (2014)
		Introduction: The Narrative Palimpsest
		The Urban Palimpsest: Borders, Bridges, and Socio-Cultural Crisis
		Literary Inception and Palimpsests of Writing
		Of Paratexts and the Palimpsestuous Reading
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Locating the Favela: Place and Representation in the Marvelous City of Rio de Janeiro
		Introduction
		Construction, Removal, and Forced Integration as Make-Up
		Close and Far: Dividing, Visiting, and Vidigalization
		Representation: Between Interest, Erasure, and Hyperspatialization
		Alternative Representation: Favela, Museum, Graffiti
		Transcending Alternative Representation
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Rethinking Cultural Structures and Literary Strategies
	Chapter 9: On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict’s Palimpsestuous Writings
		Primitivist Longing and Allochronic Writing
		Benedict’s Mature Style of Writing
		Salvage Anthropology, Cultural Pluralism, and Benedict’s Poetry
		References
	Chapter 10: A Palimpsest of Herstories: Intertextuality as a Womanist Practice in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills
		Introduction
		Intertextuality, Palimpsests, and Womanism: Theoretical and Critical Contexts
		Intertextual Constructions in Linden Hills
		The Palimpsest of Herstories
		Womanist Practice in and Beyond Linden Hills
		Palimpsest Beyond the Page: Linden Hills and the Role of the Reader
		References
	Chapter 11: A Palimpsestuous Reading of Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood
		Introduction
		Religion and Science Fiction
		Butler’s Palimpsestuous Textual Relationality
		Conclusion
		References
Index