A Historical Companion To Postcolonial Thought In English

Author : Poddar Prem Poddar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9781474471718

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Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English by Poddar Prem Poddar Pdf

This is the first reference guide to the political, cultural and economic histories that form the subject-matter of postcolonial literatures written in English.The focus of the Companion is principally on the histories of postcolonial literatures in the Anglophone world - Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South-east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific, the Caribbean and Canada. There are also long entries discussing the literatures and histories of those further areas that have also claimed the title 'postcolonial', notably Britain, East Asia, Ireland, Latin America and the United States. The Companion contains:*220 entries written by 150 acknowledged scholars of postcolonial history and literature;*covers major events, ideas, movements, and figures in postcolonial histories*long regional survey essays on historiography and women's histories. Each entry provides a summary of the historical event or topic and bibliographies of postcolonial literary works and histories. Extensive cross-references and indexes enable readers to locate particular literary texts in their relevant historical contexts, as well as to discover related literary texts and histories in other regions with ease.

Author : Prem Poddar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0748618554

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A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English by Prem Poddar Pdf

The majority of the entries focus on the period after the end of colonial rule in Britain's Empire, but as many postcolonial literary works re-visit the period of colonial rule, the Companion includes entries on certain events from this earlier period too.

Author : Prem Poddar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748650972

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Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires by Prem Poddar Pdf

The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G

Author : Henry Schwarz,Sangeeta Ray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998335

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A Companion to Postcolonial Studies by Henry Schwarz,Sangeeta Ray Pdf

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale

Author : Sangeeta Ray,Henry Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Postcolonialism
ISBN : OCLC:1148586487

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A Companion to Postcolonial Studies by Sangeeta Ray,Henry Schwarz Pdf

Author : Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134764358

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Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region by Kristín Loftsdóttir,Lars Jensen Pdf

This book examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the manner in which contemporary discourses in Nordic society are rendered meaningful or obscured by references to past events and tropes related to the practices and ideologies of colonialism. Against the background of Nordic 'exceptionalism', it explores the manner in which the interwoven racial, gendered and nationalistic ideologies associated with the colonial project form part of contemporary Nordic identities. An important challenge to national identities that can become increasingly inward looking, Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region sheds light on the ways in which certain notions and structural inequalities, understood as residue from the colonial period, become recreated or projected onto different groups. Presenting a variety of case studies drawn from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Greenland, Denmark and Iceland, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences and humanities conducting research in the fields of race and ethnicity, identity and belonging, media representations of 'the other' and colonialism and postcolonialism.

Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615566

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Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson Pdf

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.

Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739133095

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Africana Critical Theory by Reiland Rabaka Pdf

Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory. With chapters on W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Negritude (Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor), Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral, Africana Critical Theory endeavors to accessibly offer contemporary critical theorists an intellectual archaeology of the Africana tradition of critical theory and a much-needed dialectical deconstruction and reconstruction of black radical politics. These six seminal figures' collective thought and texts clearly cuts across several disciplines and, therefore, closes the chasm between Africana Studies and critical theory, constantly demanding that intellectuals not simply think deep thoughts, develop new theories, and theoretically support radical politics, but be and constantly become political activists, social organizers and cultural workers - that is, folk the Italian critical theorist Antonio Gramsci referred to as 'organic intellectuals.' In this sense, then, the series of studies gathered in Africana Critical Theory contribute not only to African Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, but also to contemporary critical theoretical discourse across an amazingly wide-range of 'traditional' disciplines, and radical political activism outside of (and, in many instances, absolutely against) Europe's ivory towers and the absurdities of the American academy.

Author : Keith Lawrence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440872891

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Asian American Literature by Keith Lawrence Pdf

Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students is an invaluable resource for students curious to know more about Asian North American writers, texts, and the issues and drives that motivate their writing. This volume collects, in one place, a breadth of information about Asian American literary and cultural history as well as the authors and texts that best define it. A dozen contextual essays introduce fundamental elements or subcategories of Asian American literature, expanding on social and literary concerns or tensions that are familiar and relevant. Essays include the origins and development of the term "Asian American"; overviews of Asian American and Asian Canadian social and literary histories; essays on Asian American identity, gender issues, and sexuality; and discussions of Asian American rhetoric and children's literature. More than 120 alphabetical entries round out the volume and cover important Asian North American authors. Historical information is presented in clear and engaging ways, and author entries emphasize biographical or textual details that are significant to contemporary young adults. Special attention has been given to pioneering authors from the late 19th century through the early 1970s and to influential or well-known contemporary authors, especially those likely to be studied in high school or university classrooms.

Author : Prem Poddar,Rajeev Shridhar Patke,Lars Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:1310736290

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A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures by Prem Poddar,Rajeev Shridhar Patke,Lars Jensen Pdf

Author : Graham MacPhee
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748688661

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Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Graham MacPhee Pdf

Explores a wide range of writers through the lens of postcolonial theory, focusing on themes of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identity.

Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521534186

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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by Neil Lazarus Pdf

Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.

Author : Aonghas St-Hilaire
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284648

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Kwéyòl in Postcolonial Saint Lucia by Aonghas St-Hilaire Pdf

Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole – Kwéyòl – as the national language of Saint Lucia and on the legacy of colonialism and impact of globalization, with which English has become the universal lingua franca, as mitigating factors undermining these efforts. It deals specifically with language planning for democratization and government; literacy, the schools and higher education; and the mass media. It also examines changes in the status of and attitudes toward Kwéyòl, English and French since national independence and presents language planning implications from these changes and steps already undertaken to elevate Kwéyòl. The book offers new insight into globalization and its impact on linguistic pluralism, language planning, national development, Creole languages, and cultural identity in the Caribbean.

Author : Thomas O. Beebee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137001016

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Transmesis by Thomas O. Beebee Pdf

This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations.

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000996142

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What is Colonialism? by Patrick Colm Hogan Pdf

What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science, affective science, and social psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis. Hogan begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions, such as the degree to which a group shares beliefs, dispositions, and skills versus the degree to which they share identification with a category. Building on these distinctions, he defines colonialism in terms of political, economic, and cultural autonomy, clarifying the nature of culture and autonomy particularly. He goes on to articulate an invaluable systematic account of the varieties of colonialism. The final chapters outline the motives of imperialists, differentiating these from their ideological rationalizations, and sketching the harms caused by colonialism. The book concludes by considering when, or if, one can achieve a genuinely postcolonial condition. Hogan illustrates these analyses by examining influential literary works—by European writers (such as Joseph Conrad) and by non-Europeans (such as Athol Fugard, Kamala Markandaya, and Wole Soyinka). This accessible and informative volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire.