The present remembers the past as it chooses, and what it chooses to represent and how it chooses to represent, of course, makes all the difference. Yet many of those choices are unconscious,
or are carefully manipulated to make the point, the point becoming more important than the place. Chosen from papers presented at an international conference, these eighteen examine the
colonial and postcolonial contexts surrounding displacement, migration or exile; the notion of ＂place＂ as constructed and re-constructed within memory, imagination, fantasy, desire, language or
myth of an individual locale. Topics include remembering home and displacement, forgetting and re-remembering trauma and disruption, re-negotiating the boundaries between east and west, and
re-creating, re-imaging or re-visualizing, space. Locales under consideration include Australia, Canada and the USA, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, the West Indies, and the
Philippines. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
