Experiences Of Freedom In Postcolonial Literatures And Cultures

Author : Annalisa Oboe,Shaul Bassi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136811739

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Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures by Annalisa Oboe,Shaul Bassi Pdf

Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in contemporary life. This volume offers culturally diverse contributions to the debate on freedom from the literatures and arts of the postcolonial world, exploring experiences that evoke, desire, imagine, and perform freedom across five continents and two centuries of history. Experiences of Freedom opens with an introductory philosophical essay by Achille Mbembe and is divided into four sections that consider: • resisting history and colonialism • the right to move and to belong • the right to (believe in) free futures • imaginative freedom and critical engagement. Each section contains a piece of creative writing directly connected to these topics from authors Chris Abani, Anita Desai, Caryl Phillips, and Alexis Wright, followed by a selection of critical essays. Contributors: Chris Abani, Rochelle Almeida, Gil Anidjar, Jogamaya Bayer, Elena Bernardini, Anne Collett, Carmen Concilio, Paola Della Valle, Roberto Derobertis, Anita Desai, Lorna Down, Francesca Giommi, Gareth Griffiths, Dave Gunning, John C. Hawley, Peter H. Marsden, Russell McDougall, Achille Mbembe, Cinzia Mozzato, Kevin Newmark, Berndt Ostendorf, Mai Palmberg, Owen Percy, Kirsten Holst Petersen, Caryl Phillips, Annel Pieterse, Christiane Schlote, Nermeen Shaikh, Patrick Williams, Alexis Wright, and Robert J. C. Young.

Author : Michael R. Griffiths
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134801176

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Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture by Michael R. Griffiths Pdf

From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, performances, and displays of memory serve to obscure and elide aspects of the history of colonial governmentality? This collection addresses these and other questions in essays that take up the varied legacies, continuities, modes of memorialization, and poetics of remaking that attend colonial governmentality in spaces as varied as the Maghreb and the Solomon Islands. Highlighting the continued injustices arising from a process whose aftermath is far from settled, the contributors examine works by twentieth-century authors representing Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Imperial practices throughout the world have fomented a veritable culture of memory. The essays in this volume show how the legacy of colonialism’s attempt to transform the mode of life of colonized peoples has been central to the largely unequal phenomenon of globalization.

Author : Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783476055989

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Postcolonial Literatures in English by Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann Pdf

The term ‘postcolonial literatures in English’ designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved from those regions to the global north. This volume introduces the central themes of postcolonial literary studies and delineates how these themes are reflected and elaborated in exemplary literary works by postcolonial authors from around the world. It also offers succinct definitions of key terms like Orientalism, hybridity, Indigeneity or writing back.

Author : Bart Moore-Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134106936

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Postcolonial Life-Writing by Bart Moore-Gilbert Pdf

At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, Postcolonialsim and Life-Writing, brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing.

Author : Pheng Cheah
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 023113018X

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Spectral Nationality by Pheng Cheah Pdf

This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant and its development in philosophers in the German tradition such as Fichte, Hegel, and Marx.

Author : Shirley Chew,David Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118836002

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A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature by Shirley Chew,David Richards Pdf

Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture. An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period's keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies. Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8131713733

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Postcolonial Literature by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Author : Traore, Moussa,Talburt, Tony
Publisher : Sub-Saharan Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789988647674

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Fight for Freedom by Traore, Moussa,Talburt, Tony Pdf

Although there have been a number of studies on Black resistance, very few of these have focused exclusively on such a wide range of resistance campaigns and strategies within a single volume. One of the central arguments of this study is that from as early as the sixteenth century, when Europeans attempted to systematically exploit Africans, Black people have engaged in a variety of organised and sustained resistance campaigns to assert their independence and identity. This book examines some of the different strategies employed by Black people in Africa and the Diaspora in response to European domination and exploitation. Drawing upon research from scholars based at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, this collection of original essays, covers the academic disciplines of African and Caribbean history, literature, politics and psychology. Despite these different approaches, the consistent theme throughout, centres on the strategies employed by Black people to resist European domination and oppression, by fighting for their freedom at every possible opportunity, whether they were in Africa, Britain or the Caribbean.

Author : Julie Mullaney
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847063373

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Postcolonial Literatures in Context by Julie Mullaney Pdf

This book presents an introduction to key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous identities and politics and globalization. This book also contains a chapter on afterlives and adaptations that explores a range of wider cultural texts including film, non-fiction and art.

Author : Phyllis Taoua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427418

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African Freedom by Phyllis Taoua Pdf

A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence.

Author : Jerome C. Branche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367593327

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Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic by Jerome C. Branche Pdf

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery. The contributors explore the confrontation between Africa's forced migrants and their unwelcoming new environments, in order to highlight the unique individual experiences of survival and assimilation that characterized Atlantic slavery. As they focus on the African or Afro-diasporan populations under study, the chapters gauge the degree to which formal independence, coming out of a variety of practices of opposition and resistance, lasting centuries in some cases, has translated into freedom, security, and a "good life." By foregrounding Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Francophone African and Afro-descendant concerns, over and against an often Anglo-centric focus in the field, the book brings a more representative approach to the area of diaspora or Black Atlantic studies, offering a more complete appreciation of Black Atlantic cultural production across history and across linguistic barriers.

Author : L. Burns,B. Kaiser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137030801

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Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze by L. Burns,B. Kaiser Pdf

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial literature and theory.

Author : B. J. Moore-Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415443008

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Postcolonial Life-writing by B. J. Moore-Gilbert Pdf

At a time when concepts of identity and self-representation are abundant in both literary and cultural studies, Postcolonialsim and Life-Writing, brings together the two increasingly popular and important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing.

Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108830980

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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson Pdf

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415096227

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The Post-colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

The Post-Colonial Studies Readeris the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works. TheReader's90 extracts are designed to introduce the major issues and debates in the field of post-colonial literary studies. This field itself, however, has become so varied that no collection of readings could encompass every voice which is now giving itself the name "post-colonial." The editors, in order to avoid a volume which is simply a critical canon, have selected works representing arguments with which they do not necessarily agree, but rather which above all stimulate discussion, thought and further exploration. Post-colonial "theory" has occurred in all societies into which the imperial force of Europe has intruded, though not always in the official form oftheoretical text. Like the description of any other field the term has come to mean many things, but this volume hinges on one incontestable phenomenon: the "historical fact"of colonialism, and the palpable consequences to which this phenomenon gave rise. The topic involves talk about experience of various kinds: migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and reaction to the European influence, and about the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. In compiling this reader, the editors have sought to stimulate people to ask: "How might a genuinely post-colonial literary enterprise proceed?" The fourteen sections include: Issues and Debates; Universality and Difference; Textual Representation and Resistance; Postmodernism and Post-Colonialism; Nationalism; Hybridity; Ethnicity and Indigenity; Feminism and Post-Colonialism; Language; The Body and Performance; History; Place; Education; and Production andConsumption. Contributors include many of the leading post-colonial theorists and critics--such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabba, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha--in addition to a number of the discourse's newer voices.The Post-Colonial Studies Readerwill prove an authoritative compilation, representing an invaluable contribution to the study of post-colonial theory and criticism.