Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories

Introduction, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Johanna C. Kardux, Monika Mueller, and Jopi Nyman.- I. Scraping off and Writing/ Painting over: Revisiting the Archive.- Silvia Schultermandl (University of Graz, Austria). "Palimpsestuous Historiographies in Lisa Lowe's The Intimacies of Four Continents and Karen Tei Yamashita's I-Hotel.".- Izabella Penier (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom), "The Body as a Palimpsest: Stor(y)ing Memories in Michelle Cliff Clare Savage Novels and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.".- Cathy Covell Waegner (University of Siegen, Germany), "Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts.".- II. Contested and Interwoven Histories: The City as Palimpsest in Literature and Culture.-Page Laws (Norfolk State University, USA), "Littoral/Literal Watermarks: Layers of Signification in Maritime Marseille.".- Kudzai Ngara (University of the Free State, South Africa), "Memory, History and Identity: Postcolonial Urban Palimpsests in the Writing of Ivan Vladislavic.".- Sophia Emmanouilidou (Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece), "Ominous Borders, Liminal Bridges: Narrative Palimpsests of Cultural History and Racial Subjectivity in Alejandro Morales' Epic Novel River of Angeles (2014).".- Gundo Rial y Costas (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), "The Marvellous City of Rio de Janeiro and its Favela Other: A Contested Palimpsest.".- III. Rethinking Cultural Structures and Literary Strategies.- Elisabeth Reichel (University of Basel, Switzerland), "On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict's Palimpsestuous Writings.".- Ewa A. Adamkiewicz (University of Graz, Austria), "Tradition of Black Dissent: James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter.".- Marta Werbanowska, (Howard University, USA), "A Palimpsest of Herstories: Intertextuality as a Woman's Practice in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills.".- Aparajita Nanda (UC Berkeley, USA), "A Palimpsestuous Reading of Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood.".