Experiences Of Freedom In Postcolonial Literatures And Cultures

Author : Annalisa Oboe,Shaul Bassi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : 54,8 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 : 50,6 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 : 45,7 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 : 427 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231503600

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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. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has a tainted history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not altogether dismissive, of the idea of the nation and the related metaphor of the political body as an organism. 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. Cheah argues that the widespread association of freedom with the self-generating dynamism of life and culture's power of transcendence is the most important legacy of this tradition. Addressing this legacy's manifestations in Fanon and Cabral's theories of anticolonial struggle and contemporary anticolonial literature, including the Buru Quartet by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's nationalist novels, Cheah suggests that the profound difficulties of achieving freedom in the postcolonial world indicate the need to reconceptualize freedom in terms of the figure of the specter rather than the living organism.

Author : Shirley Chew,David Richards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : 45,7 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 : 48,9 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 : 49,5 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 : 44,7 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 : 54,7 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 : B. J. Moore-Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : L. Burns,B. Kaiser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134465057

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The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture. The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language. This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis, but for its accessibility for readers new to the field. Now with an additional chapter and an updated bibliography, The Empire Writes Back is essential for contemporary post-colonial studies.

Author : A. Bery,P. Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230599550

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Comparing Postcolonial Literatures by A. Bery,P. Murray Pdf

Bringing together a range of critics working on the hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone post-colonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed post-colonial studies. Collected essays include: cross-cultural comparisons from areas as diverse as Africa, Ireland and Latin America; analysis of specific texts as sites of border conflict; and revisions of post-colonial theoretical frameworks. A timely questioning of the categories of a critical field at the point when it is becoming increasingly comparative, this volume seeks to suggest more dynamic ways of working in post-colonial cultural studies.