MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational
By: Nwosu, Maik
ISBN: 9781592218240
$29.95
Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamics). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two perspectives – the postcolonial (with its central colonizer-colonized binary) and the transnational (with its cross-cultural multiformity). While one often tends to be vertical and the other horizontal in progression, these two concepts are related. To be postcolonial, especially in the contemporary sense, is to be already multicultural or transnational. One pointer to this transnational mode of being is the phenomenon of the traveling sign or the travel of the sign – and its consequences – across cultural-ideological boundaries.