Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton (review)

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Astrid Rasch is Associate Professor of English at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research examines memory culture at the end of the British Empire with a particular focus on memoirs from Zimbabwe, Australia, and the Caribbean, and postimperial memory politics in contemporary Britain. She is editor of the anthologies Life Writing After Empire (Routledge, 2017), Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Stuart Ward, Bloomsbury, 2019), and a special issue of Journal of Southern African Studies called “Writing Repression in Zimbabwe” (with Minna Niemi and Jocelyn Alexander, 2021). She heads the initiative Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa and the interdisciplinary social media project Trondheim Analytica. Her recent publications appear in History & Memory, Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Life Writing. She is currently working on a book project on post-imperial autobiographies with the working title Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Cultural Memory in Dialogue.