Behind The Postcolonial

Author : Abidin Kusno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136365096

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Behind the Postcolonial by Abidin Kusno Pdf

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, between images of global urban cultures and the concrete historical meanings of the local. It shows how one might write a political history of postcolonial architecture and urban space that recognizes the political cultures of the present without neglecting the importance of the colonial past. In the process, it poses serious questions for the analysis and understanding of postcolonial states.

Author : Abidin Kusno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136365164

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Behind the Postcolonial by Abidin Kusno Pdf

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, between images of global urban cultures and the concrete historical meanings of the local. It shows how one might write a political history of postcolonial architecture and urban space that recognizes the political cultures of the present without neglecting the importance of the colonial past. In the process, it poses serious questions for the analysis and understanding of postcolonial states.

Author : E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137265234

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Beyond the Postcolonial by E. Dawson Varughese Pdf

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English.

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0822335239

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Postcolonial Studies and Beyond by Ania Loomba Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies.

Author : Abidin Kusno
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822392576

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The Appearances of Memory by Abidin Kusno Pdf

In The Appearances of Memory, the Indonesian architectural and urban historian Abidin Kusno explores the connections between the built environment and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing primarily on Jakarta, he describes how perceptions of the past, anxieties about the rapid pace of change in the present, and hopes for the future have been embodied in architecture and urban space at different historical moments. He argues that the built environment serves as a reminder of the practices of the past and an instantiation of the desire to remake oneself within, as well as beyond, one’s particular time and place. Addressing developments in Indonesia since the fall of President Suharto’s regime in 1998, Kusno delves into such topics as the domestication of traumatic violence and the restoration of order in the urban space, the intense interest in urban history in contemporary Indonesia, and the implications of “superblocks,” large urban complexes consisting of residences, offices, shops, and entertainment venues. Moving farther back in time, he examines how Indonesian architects reinvented colonial architectural styles to challenge the political culture of the state, how colonial structures such as railway and commercial buildings created a new, politically charged cognitive map of cities in Java in the early twentieth century, and how the Dutch, in attempting to quell dissent, imposed a distinctive urban visual order in the 1930s. Finally, the present and the past meet in his long-term considerations of how Java has responded to the global flow of Islamic architecture, and how the meanings of Indonesian gatehouses have changed and persisted over time. The Appearances of Memory is a pioneering look at the roles of architecture and urban development in Indonesia’s ongoing efforts to move forward.

Author : Epifanio San Juan
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0333913779

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Beyond Postcolonial Theory by Epifanio San Juan Pdf

Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment post colonialism, this work posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of colour as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. It questions the various cliches that stereotype third world cultures.

Author : Nivedita Majumdar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781788737463

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The World in a Grain of Sand by Nivedita Majumdar Pdf

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It critiques the valorization of the local in cultural theories typically accompanied by a rejection of universal categories - viewed as Eurocentric projections. But the privileging of the local usually amounts to an exercise in exoticization of the South. The book argues that the rejection of Eurocentric theories can be complemented by embracing another, richer and non-parochial form of universalism. Through readings of texts from India, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Egypt, the book shows that the fine grained engagement with culture, the mapping of ordinary lives not just as objects but subjects of their history, is embedded in much of postcolonial literature in a radical universalism - one that is rooted in local realities, but is able to unearth in them the needs, conflicts and desires that stretch across cultures and time. It is a universalism recognized by Marx and steeped in the spirit of anti-colonialism, but hostile to any whiff of exoticism.

Author : Martha Wilfahrt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009286183

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Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics by Martha Wilfahrt Pdf

Author : Angela Roothaan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429808227

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Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature by Angela Roothaan Pdf

Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature contributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective of critical and postcolonial thinkers who have focused on systematic racism, power relations and the intersection of cultural identity and political struggle. Angela Roothaan discusses how initiatives to tackle environmental problems cross-nationally are often challenged by economic growth processes in postcolonial nations and further complicated by fights for land rights and self-determination of indigenous peoples. For these peoples, survival requires countering the scramble for resources and clashing with environmental organizations that aim to bring their lands under their own control. The author explores the epistemological and ontological clashes behind these problems. This volume brings more awareness of what structurally obstructs open exchange in philosophy world-wide, and shows that with respect to nature, we should first negotiate what the environment is to us humans, beyond cultural differences. It demonstrates how a globalizing philosophical discourse can fully include epistemological claims of spirit ontologies, while critically investigating the exclusive claim to knowledge of modern science and philosophy. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental philosophy, cultural anthropology, intercultural philosophy and postcolonial and critical theory.

Author : J. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230107342

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The Postcolonial Middle Ages by J. Cohen Pdf

An increased awareness of the importance of minority and subjugated voices to the histories and narratives which have previously excluded them has led to a wide-spread interest in the effects of colonization and displacement. This collection of essays is the first to apply post-colonial theory to the Middle Ages, and to critique that theory through the excavation of a distant past. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which 'aboriginal' 'native' or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed.

Author : Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791441555

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Captive Bodies by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

Examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity.

Author : Timothy Bewes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400836499

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The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes Pdf

In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality? How to process the colonial past without reverting to a pathology of self-disgust? Can literature ever be free of the shame of the postcolonial epoch--ever be truly postcolonial? As disparities of power seem only to be increasing, such questions are more urgent than ever. In this book, Timothy Bewes argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. Drawing on thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Theodor Adorno, and Gilles Deleuze, Bewes argues that in literature there is an "event" of shame that brings together these ethical and aesthetic tensions. Reading works by J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Zoë Wicomb, Bewes presents a startling theory: the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place. As long as those structures remain in place, literature and critical thinking will remain steeped in shame. Offering a new mode of postcolonial reading, The Event of Postcolonial Shame demands a literature and a criticism that acknowledge their own ethical deficiency without seeking absolution from it.

Author : Gautam Basu Thakur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628925692

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Postcolonial Theory and Avatar by Gautam Basu Thakur Pdf

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The second book in the series, Postcolonial Theory and Avatar offers a concise introduction to postcolonial theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret James Cameron's high-grossing, immensely popular, and critically acclaimed 2009 film. Avatar is widely celebrated for its politically and culturally sensitive critique of the “West's” neocolonial wars and exploitation of the “global south” – an allegory for (neo)colonialism – and for highlighting the plight of tribal communities throughout the world (for instance, the case of the Dongriah Kondh tribe of India). At the same time, it has been also criticized for repeating the colonialist fantasy of saving natives doomed by imperialist aggression. Intervening in this debate over how to read the film, Basu Thakur focuses on issues of representations, discourse, subalternity, and subjectivity, all of which have been central to postcolonial theory and postcolonial analyses of culture. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of theory and bring the concepts of postcolonial theory into practice through a detailed interpretation of the film.

Author : Ashley Dawson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472069918

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Mongrel Nation by Ashley Dawson Pdf

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

Author : Ania Loomba,Suvir Kaul,Antoinette Burton,Et Al. (eds)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 8178241455

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Postcolonial Studies And Beyond by Ania Loomba,Suvir Kaul,Antoinette Burton,Et Al. (eds) Pdf