Creole Identity And Postcolonial Nation Building

Author : Jacqueline Knörr
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782382690

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Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia by Jacqueline Knörr Pdf

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

Author : Jacqueline Knörr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Betawi (Indonesian people)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173032055517

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Creole Identity and Postcolonial Nation-building by Jacqueline Knörr Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Knörr
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382683

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Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia by Jacqueline Knörr Pdf

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

Author : Christoph Kohl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785334252

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A Creole Nation by Christoph Kohl Pdf

Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining both contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau, and the ways in which the phenomenon of cultural creolization results in the emergence of new identities.

Author : Jacqueline Knörr,Christoph Kohl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330704

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The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective by Jacqueline Knörr,Christoph Kohl Pdf

For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004363397

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Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity by Anonim Pdf

Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed in contexts of postcolonial diversity shaped by distinct social, historical and local conditions.

Author : Yaw Agawu-Kakraba,Komla F. Aggor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883894

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Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba,Komla F. Aggor Pdf

Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts explores the complexities underlying the identity formation of peoples of African ancestry in the Spanish-speaking world and of expatriate immigrants who inhabit colonized territories in Africa. Although current diaspora studies provide provocative perspectives on migration that have various cultural, national, political and economic implications, any engagement of the subject readily runs into theoretical and practical challenges. At stake here is the question of finding an ideal conceptualization of diaspora. Should the term be limited to migration that is purely voluntary or to a traumatic exile? What about generational differences that, invariably, impact the imagining of diaspora? How does diaspora relate to creolization, hybridity and transculturation? This volume does not argue for what constitutes a proper diaspora, but rather re-contextualizes the concept of diaspora from the point of view of identity formation on the basis of voluntary and non-voluntary migration. The essays gathered together here engage with the unified topic of identity, but radiate a stimulating variety in geographic coverage – examining countries such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Morocco, Angola, and Spain – and in thematic approach – from religion to a poetics of self-affirmation to issues of political conflict, subalternity and migration.

Author : Jacqueline Knörr,Wilson Trajano Filho
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004191402

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The Powerful Presence of the Past by Jacqueline Knörr,Wilson Trajano Filho Pdf

This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction impacted by specific historical experiences. Contributions aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms affecting processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.

Author : Prem Misir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123282407

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Cultural Identity and Creolization in National Unity by Prem Misir Pdf

Through a series of readings, this book explores the dominance of Creolization, the hybrid of African and European culture, in the Caribbean. This book explores how Creolization endangers national unity, good governance, and political stability in the region by ignoring the Caribbean's multiethnic mosaic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004464315

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Nationalism and the Postcolonial by Anonim Pdf

The contributions in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine forms, representations, and consequences of ubiquitous nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature across the globe from the perspectives of linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies.

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042027671

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Shared Waters by Stella Borg Barthet Pdf

The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe’s wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women’s writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell–Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder–Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson–Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast–Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba–Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt–William.

Author : Espelencia Marie Baptiste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0773417559

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How Citizens Are Produced and Ethnicity Is Maintained in Post-Colonial Mauritius, with Special Attention to the Creoles by Espelencia Marie Baptiste Pdf

This book examines how an education system can provide mechanisms for nation building This work exposes how these mechanisms influence imagining, building, and enacting nation in a country with no native population It also examines how its colonially introduced ethnic groups proudly proclaim their differences in language and history.

Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252432

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Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles by John H. McWhorter Pdf

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.

Author : Patricia Marie Northover,Michaeline Crichlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822392453

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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination by Patricia Marie Northover,Michaeline Crichlow Pdf

Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of “creolization.” Examining sociocultural, political, and economic transformations in the Caribbean, Michaeline A. Crichlow argues that creolization—culture-creating processes usually associated with plantation societies and with subordinate populations remaking the cultural forms of dominant groups—must be liberated from and expanded beyond plantations, and even beyond the black Atlantic, to include productions of “culture” wherever vulnerable populations live in situations of modern power inequalities, from regimes of colonialism to those of neoliberalism. Crichlow theorizes a concept of creolization that speaks to how individuals from historically marginalized groups refashion self, time, and place in multiple ways, from creating art to traveling in search of homes. Grounding her theory in the material realities of Caribbean peoples in the plantation era and the present, Crichlow contends that creolization and Creole subjectivity are constantly in flux, morphing in response to the changing conditions of modernity and creatively expressing a politics of place. Engaging with the thought of Michel Foucault, Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Achille Mbembe, Henri Lefebvre, Margaret Archer, Saskia Sassen, Pierre Bourdieu, and others, Crichlow argues for understanding creolization as a continual creative remaking of past and present moments to shape the future. She draws on sociology, philosophy, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies to illustrate how national histories are lived personally and how transnational experiences reshape individual lives and collective spaces. Critically extending Bourdieu’s idea of habitus, she describes how contemporary Caribbean subjects remake themselves in and beyond the Caribbean region, challenging, appropriating, and subverting older, localized forms of creolization. In this book, Crichlow offers a nuanced understanding of how Creole citizens of the Caribbean have negotiated modern economies of power.

Author : Christian K. Højbjerg,Jacqueline Knörr,William P. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950133

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Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies by Christian K. Højbjerg,Jacqueline Knörr,William P. Murphy Pdf

This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on ‘crises’ in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region – whether at the level of subnational and national communities, or international and regional structures of interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border military incursions, regional security, and transnational epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities.