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Postcolonial Audiences

Author : Bethan Benwell,James Procter,Gemma Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136454387

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Postcolonial Audiences by Bethan Benwell,James Procter,Gemma Robinson Pdf

Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial – from the notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of reading.

Anti-racism and Multiculturalism

Author : Mark Alleyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351531429

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Anti-racism and Multiculturalism by Mark Alleyne Pdf

All scholarly books are engagements with the existing literature, often the published scholarly work of one established discipline. This book originated with modest objectives, to produce a work that would be in conversation with the literature of international relations even though not of relevance only to that field. The professed goal of international relations is international peace. The ethical lens of pondering the best means to achieve world peace is used to filter media content in the field of multiculturalism and anti-racism. Although there has been little work on the impact of racial difference on the contours of contemporary international order, there has been a sizeable body of research intended to abolish the credibility of pseudo-scientific racism. Such racism has provided the ideological foundation and justification for imperialism, colonialism, the holocaust, and apartheid. Race has been debunked as a myth. Because of this, racism - the ideology bred of human classification according to racial difference - has been found to be intellectually and morally barren. But the need to communicate egalitarian and scientific sentiments remains. The contributors to this volume consider five questions: How does the literature on antiracism improve our understanding of conflict resolution? How does the analysis of the media's role in racist and anti-racist discourses improve the process of theorizing on hate and war propaganda? How can research on anti-racist discourse improve UN peacekeeping? What implications does this subject have for theory-building and cultural diversity? How and why should the literature on anti-racism expand research in international relations? This is a unique, worthwhile framework for cross-disciplinary research in race and intellectual consensus and conflict.

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

Author : Anna Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136228155

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Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective by Anna Ball Pdf

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir Hammad, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized trajectory in gender-consciousness under development in the Palestinian imagination from the start of the twentieth century. The book explores how these works resonate with questions of power, identity, nation, resistance, and self-representation in the Palestinian imagination more broadly, and asks how these gender-conscious narratives transform our understanding of Palestine's struggle for postcoloniality. Working at the cusp of postcolonial, feminist and cultural enquiry, Ball seeks to open up vital new directions in the interdisciplinary study of Palestine.

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

Author : John Clement Ball
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415965934

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Satire and the Postcolonial Novel by John Clement Ball Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction

Author : Anjali Pandey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137340368

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Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction by Anjali Pandey Pdf

How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction, making a case for an emerging transparent-turn in which momentary multilingualism works in the service of long-term monolingualism.

The Transnational in Literary Studies

Author : Kai Wiegandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110688726

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The Transnational in Literary Studies by Kai Wiegandt Pdf

This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

Mapping Indigenous Presence

Author : Kathryn W. Shanley,Bjørg Evjen
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816531523

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Mapping Indigenous Presence by Kathryn W. Shanley,Bjørg Evjen Pdf

Mapping Indigenous Presence presents a set of comparativeIndigenous studies essays with contemporary perspectives, attesting tothe importance of the roles Indigenous people have played as overseersof their own lands and resources, as creators of their own culturalrichness, and as political entities capable of governing themselves.This interdisciplinary collection explores the Indigenous experience ofS�mi peoples of Norway and Native Americans of Montana in theirrespective contexts--yet they are in many ways distinctlydifferent within the body politic of their respective countries.Although they share similarities as Indigenous peoples withinnation-states and inhabit somewhat similar geographies, their culturesand histories differ significantly.

From Internationalism to Postcolonialism

Author : Rossen Djagalov
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.

Curious about George

Author : Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781496837356

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Curious about George by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre Pdf

In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would later become one of the most celebrated books in children’s literature—Curious George. Since his debut in 1941, the mischievous icon has only grown in popularity. After being captured in Africa by the Man in the Yellow Hat and taken to live in the big city’s zoo, Curious George became a symbol of curiosity, adventure, and exploration. In Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism, author Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre argues that the beloved character also performs within a narrative of racism, colonialism, and heroism. Using theories of colonial and rhetorical studies to explain why cultural icons like Curious George are able to avoid criticism, Schwartz-DuPre investigates the ways these characters operate as capacious figures, embodying and circulating the narratives that construct them, and effectively argues that discourses about George provide a rich training ground for children to learn US citizenship and become innocent supporters of colonial American exceptionalism. By drawing on postcolonial theory, children’s criticisms, science and technology studies, and nostalgia, Schwartz-DuPre’s critical reading explains the dismissal of the monkey’s 1941 abduction from Africa and enslavement in the US, described in the first book, by illuminating two powerful roles he currently holds: essential STEM ambassador at a time when science and technology is central to global competitiveness and as a World War II refugee who offers a “deficient” version of the Holocaust while performing model US immigrant. Curious George’s twin heroic roles highlight racist science and an Americanized Holocaust narrative. By situating George as a representation of enslaved Africans and Holocaust refugees, Curious about George illuminates the danger of contemporary zero-sum identity politics, the colonization of marginalized identities, and racist knowledge production. Importantly, it demonstrates the ways in which popular culture can be harnessed both to promote colonial benevolence and to present possibilities for resistance.

Contemporary Indian English Literature

Author : Cecile Sandten,Indrani Karmakar,Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823395911

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Contemporary Indian English Literature by Cecile Sandten,Indrani Karmakar,Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz Pdf

Contemporary Indian English Literature focuses on the recent history of Indian literature in English since the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), a watershed moment for Indian writing in English in the global literary landscape. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of poets, novelists, short fiction writers and dramatists who have notably contributed to the proliferation of Indian literature in English from the late 20th century to the present. The volume provides an introduction to current developments in Indian English literature and explains general ideas, as well as the specific features and styles of selected writers from this wide spectrum. It addresses students working in this field at university level, and includes thorough reading lists and study questions to encourage students to read, reflect on and write about Indian English literature critically.

A Companion to the Classical Tradition

Author : Craig W. Kallendorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444334166

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A Companion to the Classical Tradition by Craig W. Kallendorf Pdf

A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory

Meanings of Audiences

Author : Richard Butsch,Sonia Livingstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135043049

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Meanings of Audiences by Richard Butsch,Sonia Livingstone Pdf

In today’s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, while powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance. This ground-breaking collection offers original, empirical studies of discourses about audiences by bringing together a genuinely international range of work. With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and regulation in different yet overlapping ways according to specific socio-historical contexts. Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book is a valuable and original contribution to media and communication studies. It will be particularly useful to those studying audiences and international media.

J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism

Author : K. Hallemeier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137346537

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J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism by K. Hallemeier Pdf

Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature.

Post-colonial Cultures in France

Author : Alec G. Hargreaves,Mark McKinney
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 0415144876

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Post-colonial Cultures in France by Alec G. Hargreaves,Mark McKinney Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Author : Mr Jonathan Gil Harris,Professor Alexa Huang,Professor Graham Bradshaw,Professor Tom Bishop
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781409479024

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook by Mr Jonathan Gil Harris,Professor Alexa Huang,Professor Graham Bradshaw,Professor Tom Bishop Pdf

Honoring Shakespearean scholar Michael Neill, this eleventh issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook brings together essays by a diverse group of writers, to examine Neill's extraordinary body of work, employing his many analyses of place as points of departure for new critical investigations of Shakespeare and Renaissance culture. It also challenges us to think about the conception of place implicit in the "International" of the Yearbook's title: the violence as well as calmness, the settling and unsettling, that has worked to produce—and still works to produce—the "global." Many of the essays move out of early modern England, whether spatially (journeying to Ireland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Sudan, and New Zealand) or temporally (traveling to 20th- and 21st-century reproductions, rewritings, or reappropriations of Shakespeare and other texts). The volume concludes with an Afterword by Michael Neill. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies across the world. Among the contributors to this volume are Shakespearean scholars from Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, and the US.