Post Imperial Literature

Author : Vladimir Biti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110732245

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Post-imperial Literature by Vladimir Biti Pdf

This book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the East-Central European empires in the 1920s and the crumbling of the West European colonial empires in the 1950s. To prevent their breakdown, the former transitioned from a ‘sovereign’ to a ‘disciplinary’ mode of administration of their peripheries, the latter from the merciless assimilation of their colonial constituencies to their affirmative regeneration. This book treats Franz Kafka as the writer of the first transition, prefiguring J. M. Coetzee as the writer of the second. In a series of close readings, it investigates the particular ways in which the restructuring of power relations between the agencies in their fictions is a response to the delineated post-imperial reconfiguration of the new countries’ governmental techniques. By displacing their narrative authority beyond the reach of their readers, they laid bare the sudden withdrawal of transcendental guarantees from the world of human commonality. This entailed an unstable and elusive configuration of their fictional worlds as a key feature of post-imperial literature.

Author : Andrew W. Conrad,Alma Rubal-Lopez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110872187

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Post-Imperial English by Andrew W. Conrad,Alma Rubal-Lopez Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Vladimir Biti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004358959

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Attached to Dispossession: Sacrificial Narratives in Post-imperial Europe by Vladimir Biti Pdf

An account of the post-imperial disintegration of East Central Europe. In its aftermath, the disintegrated parts passionately cleave to their dispossession by generating political and literary sacrificial narratives. The monograph investigates their interaction.

Author : Stephen E. Hanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139491495

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Post-Imperial Democracies by Stephen E. Hanson Pdf

This book examines the causal impact of ideology through a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of 'post-imperial democracy': the early Third Republic in France (1870–86); the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–34); and post-Soviet Russia (1992–2008). Hanson argues that political ideologies are typically necessary for the mobilization of enduring, independent national party organizations in uncertain democracies. By presenting an explicit and desirable picture of the political future, successful ideologues induce individuals to embrace a long-run strategy of cooperation with other converts. When enough new converts cooperate in this way, it enables sustained collective action to defend and extend party power. Successful party ideologies thus have the character of self-fulfilling prophecies: by portraying the future polity as one organized to serve the interests of those loyal to specific ideological principles, they help to bring political organizations centered on these principles into being.

Author : Anita Starosta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X82963

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Eastern Europe, Literature, and Post-imperial Difference by Anita Starosta Pdf

Author : Juan E. Tazón Salces,Isabel Carrera Suárez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488625

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Post/Imperial Encounters by Juan E. Tazón Salces,Isabel Carrera Suárez Pdf

Spanish and English are two of the most widely spoken languages in today’s world, and are linked by a colonial presence in the Americas that has often provoked turbulent relations between Britain and Spain. Despite abundant exchanges between Spain and the British Isles, and evident contact in the Americas, cross-cultural analyses are infrequent, and ironically language barriers still prevail in a world the media and globalization would appear to render borderless: English and Hispanic Studies have seldom converged, the islands of the Caribbean continue to be separated by language, while the new empire, the United States, has difficulty in admitting to its Hispanic component, let alone recognizing that the name “America” encompasses a wider continent. Post/Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations attempts to bridge this gap through articles on literature, history and culture that concentrate primarily on three periods: the colonial interventions of Britain and Spain in the Americas, the Spanish Civil War and the present world, with its global culture and new forms of colonialism.

Author : Monika Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000007824

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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined by Monika Albrecht Pdf

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.

Author : L. J. Butler
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1860644481

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Britain and Empire by L. J. Butler Pdf

Britain and Empire fills a major gap in the literature on Britain’s gradual abandonment of her global and imperial role. It relates formal decolonization and the wider evolution of the Commonwealth to changes in international relations and in Britain’s domestic political, economic, and social scene. The concept of imperial decline is therefore seen in the context of adjustment to changing international and domestic politics and the ending of the imperial mind-set.

Author : Rossen Djagalov
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228002024

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From Internationalism to Postcolonialism by Rossen Djagalov Pdf

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism recounts the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World project in literature and cinema, and offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies.

Author : Harry Goulbourne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521400848

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Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain by Harry Goulbourne Pdf

An examination of how post-imperial Britain has come to define the national community in terms of ethnic affinity.

Author : Loren Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521817080

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Post-Imperial Brecht by Loren Kruger Pdf

Post-Imperial Brecht challenges prevailing views of Brecht's theatre and politics. Kruger focuses much of her analysis in regions where Brecht has had special resonance, including East Germany, and South Africa, where Brechtian philosophy has been vigorously employed in the anti-apartheid movement. Kruger also analyses political interpretations of Brecht in light of other key dramatists, including Heiner MÜller and Athol Fugard. The book also examines Brechtian influence on writers and philosophers such as Adorno, Benjamin, and Barthes.

Author : Barbara Buchenau,Virginia Richter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004302280

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Post-Empire Imaginaries? by Barbara Buchenau,Virginia Richter Pdf

Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter’s Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires explores the legacies of different empires across various media, focusing on the spatial, temporal, and critical dimensions of what the editors term the post-empire imaginary.

Author : Rita Sakr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441105387

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Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel by Rita Sakr Pdf

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of boundaries, sothese discourses set a boundary between their authority as platforms on which the interpretation of monumental space occurs and, in this respect, the different authority of the novel. This study crosses this boundary by means of dynamic interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the one hand, and various theoretical perspectives,history, and cultural geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of literary texts that represent monumental space in a typical post-imperial geopolitical contexts, Monumental Space and the Post-Imperial Novel brings into question many postcolonial paradigms. Sakr establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history,and cultural geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman,Andrew W. Conrad,Alma Rubal-Lopez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110147548

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Post-imperial English by Joshua A. Fishman,Andrew W. Conrad,Alma Rubal-Lopez Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89083196667

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Post-imperial Camões by Anonim Pdf

"It has been more difficult to steal Camões from this critic [Faria e Sousa] than to steal him from the Portuguese. The former is not necessarily a goal in itself (though, again fortunately, it is not up to me to read the minds of all Camões scholars). The latter is most desirable. Hence the importance of a colloquium on post-imperial Camões, in English and in America. It is fitting to recall that, ironically, Faria e Sousa's commentaries were written in Spanish and published in Spain, when Portugal was under Spanish rule. It is not a question of now showing Portugal (or its surrogate, the Portuguese language at its most sublime) to the world, as politicians would say, no matter the ideology they profess, but of allowing Camões to be stolen from the Portuguese." -- Publisher's description.