Eddies and Entanglements: Africa and the Global Mnemoscape

Abstract Van Der Rede and Erasmus provocatively characterize Africa as a “disobedient object” of memory studies, posing series radical challenges to the terms methods field. In empirical terms, they point out how two specific cases, Red Terror in Ethiopia States Emergency during Apartheid South Africa, inflect our Europe-centered models trauma memory. Beyond this, positing “not cartographic geological location but concept methodology,” van challenge liberal universalism implicit problematics studies (and indeed notion mnemonic solidarity) with an insistence on hearing/listening rather than speaking that draws postcolonial theory new sound studies.