Memory and Identity

Linda Pillière is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She is the co-editor of Standardising English: Norms and Margins in the History of the English Language and Standardisation and Variation in English Language(s) and author of Intralingual Translation of British Novels: A Multimodal Stylistic Perspective. Karine Bigand is Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has recently co-authored Faces and Places. Northern Ireland, 1975–2020.

Introduction Part 1: Shackled identities Chapter 1. Ghosts of the Past and the Oxford English Dictionary Chapter 2. The Invisible American Shoeshine Boy: Creation and Persistence of a Ghostly Icon 3. Australian Ghosts: Representations of the Past in Australia 4. Ghosts from the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives in Scotland and the Displacement of Memory Part 2: Multi-layered identities 5. Ghosting the Victorians in A.S. Byatt, Kate Atkinson and Michèle Roberts’s neo-Victorian fiction 6. Whose Past is it Before Us? The Shaping of Identity in Scotland’s 2014 Referendum on Independence 7. Haunted by the Lessons of 'the Good War’: Post-Cold War Contestation of World War II Narratives Part 3: Reclaimed identities 8. Haunting in a Postcolony: Race, Place and Intergenerational Trauma on a South African Campus 9. First World War Memorial Ghosts and the Reshaping of South African Identity: Remembering the SS Mendi in Delville Wood 10. Blyton’s Ghosts: Childhood Receptions in India and Britain 11. Decolonial Poetics: Ghosts of Coloniality, Capitalism, and Care in Contemporary Anglophone Literature