Postcolonial Configurations

Author : Josen Masangkay Diaz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023968

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Postcolonial Configurations by Josen Masangkay Diaz Pdf

In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between “Filipino” and “America” in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to the New Filipina woman and the humanitarian English teacher, Diaz positions literature, film, periodicals, and other cultural texts against official state records in ways that reconceptualize the meanings of Filipino America in the Cold War.

Author : Angelika Mietzner,Anne Storch
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781845416805

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Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings by Angelika Mietzner,Anne Storch Pdf

This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies. The volume offers a multifaceted view on how language commodifies, and is commodified in, tourism settings and considers language practices and discourse as a way of constructing identities, boundaries and places. It also reflects on academic practice and economic dynamics in a field that is characterised by social inequalities and injustice, and tourism as the world's largest industry enacting dynamic communicative, social and cultural transformations. The book will appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism studies, linguistics, literature, cultural history and anthropology, as well as researchers and professionals in these fields.

Author : Richard Jorge
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031403910

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Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker by Richard Jorge Pdf

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict and confront Ireland’s colonial situation in the nineteenth century. This study provides an innovative approach by targeting a genre (the short story) which has not been explored in its entirety— certainly not within nineteenth century Ireland - much less using a postcolonial approach to the short story. Added to this is the fact that it analyses how these writers used settings as an anticolonial tool. To do so, the book is divided into two major sections, an analysis of Irish settings and non-Irish ones. It works on the premise that all three writers used the idea of displacement to target colonialism and its effects on Irish society. In short, this book addresses a gap in scholarship, as the Irish Gothic short story as a decolonizing tool has not been sufficiently and globally studied.

Author : Jyotsna G. Singh,David D. Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315297675

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The Postcolonial World by Jyotsna G. Singh,David D. Kim Pdf

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine: Affective, Postcolonial Histories Postcolonial Desires Religious Imaginings Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism.

Author : S. Osha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137446930

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African Postcolonial Modernity by S. Osha Pdf

African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.

Author : Fernando F. Segovia,R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567637079

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A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings by Fernando F. Segovia,R. S. Sugirtharajah Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of the New Testament from the perspective of postcolonial criticism, this title enables readers to relate biblical texts more sharply to the perennial geopolitical issues of imperialism and colonialism.

Author : Sabrina Brancato
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443833998

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Afroeurope@n Configurations by Sabrina Brancato Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from various disciplines in the humanities exploring a variety of cultural, social and political configurations produced by the African presence in Europe, and attempting to consolidate a comparative framework for the study of contemporary black literatures and identities across different national and linguistic contexts. From the circumstances of black students in Russia to the recovery of a forgotten African identity in the Canary Islands, from the specificities of Portuguese postcoloniality to the representations of Africans in Iceland, the essays collected here provide a wide spectrum of research on African Diasporas in Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Europe offering insights into previously little explored areas.

Author : Birgit Neumann,Gabriele Rippl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000060584

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Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature by Birgit Neumann,Gabriele Rippl Pdf

Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone literatures addresses the power of images, vision and visual aesthetics to regulate cultural visibility and modes of identification in an unevenly structured world. The representation of visual practices in the imaginative realm of fiction opens up a zone in which established orders of the sayable and visible may be revised and transformed. In 12 chapters, the book examines narrative fiction by writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, David Dabydeen and NoViolet Bulawayo, who employ word-image relations to explore the historically fraught links between visual practices and the experience of modernity in a transcultural context. Against this conceptual background, the examination of verbal-visual relations will illustrate how Anglophone fiction models alternative modes of re-presentation that reflect critically on hegemonic visual regimes and reach out for new, more pluralized forms of exchange.

Author : Kristine Suna-Koro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625647108

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In Counterpoint by Kristine Suna-Koro Pdf

What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing volume, Kristine Suna-Koro brings postcolonialism, diaspora discourse, and Christian sacramental theology into a mutually critical and constructive transdisciplinary conversation. Dialoguing with thinkers as diverse as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak as well as Francis D'Sa, S.J., Martin Luther, Mayra Rivera, and John Chryssavgis, the author offers a postcolonial retrieval of sacramentality through a robust theological engagement with the postcolonial notions of hybridity, contrapuntality, planetarity, and Third Space. While exploring the methodological potential of diasporic imaginary in theology, this innovative book advances the notion of sacramental pluriverse and of Christ as its paradigmatic crescendo within the sacramental economy of creation and redemptive transformation. In the context of ecological degradation, In Counterpoint argues that it is vital for the postcolonial sacramental renewal to be rooted in ethics as a uniquely postcolonial fundamental theology.

Author : Christine Meyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110674422

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Questioning the Canon by Christine Meyer Pdf

To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of "great works"? To what extent do they adhere to, or contest, the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their own works within the national tradition? Building on Edward W. Said’s contrapuntal readings and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the voice of the subaltern, this monograph examines the ways in which Rafik Schami, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Feridun Zaimoglu have re-read, challenged, and adapted the German canon. Similar to other writers in postcolonial contexts, their work on the canon entails an inquiry into history and a negotiation of their relation to the texts and representations that define the "host" nation. Through close analyses of the works of these non-native German authors, the book investigates the intersection between politics, ethics, and aesthetics in their work, focusing on the appropriation and re-evaluation of cultural legacies in German-language literature. Opening up a rich critical dialogue with scholars of German Studies and Postcolonial Theory, Christine Meyer provides a fresh perspective on German-language minority literature since the reunification. Watch our talk with the editor Christine Meyer here: https://youtu.be/bIOn-8q5QIU

Author : Neetu Khanna
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478009238

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The Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna Pdf

In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA)—a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s—to show how anticolonial literature is a staging ground for exploring racialized emotion and revolutionary feeling. Among others, Khanna examines novels by Mulk Raj Anand, Ahmed Ali, and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, as well as the feminist writing of Rashid Jahan and Ismat Chughtai, who each center the somatic life of the body as a fundamental site of colonial subjugation. In this way, decolonial action comes not solely from mental transformation, but from a reconstitution of the sensorial nodes of the body. The visceral, Khanna contends, therefore becomes a critical dimension of Marxist theories of revolutionary consciousness. In tracing the contours of the visceral's role in decolonial literature and politics, Khanna bridges affect and postcolonial theory in new and provocative ways.

Author : Sara de Jong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190626563

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Complicit Sisters by Sara de Jong Pdf

Feminist trajectories -- Global responsibilities -- Bridging distance -- Interlocking connections -- Post-colonial configurations

Author : Karen Lawrence
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252061934

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Decolonizing Tradition by Karen Lawrence Pdf

Author : E. Bongmba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781403984586

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The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa by E. Bongmba Pdf

A discussion of political and religious crisis in Africa, this book covers such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society and the African renaissance. Elias K. Bongmba proposes humanistic interventions centred on the recovery of interpersonal relations and seeks to understand the ongoing struggles in Africa.

Author : Michelle Murphy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373216

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The Economization of Life by Michelle Murphy Pdf

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others might live more prosperously. Resituating the history of postcolonial neoliberal technique in expert circuits between the United States and Bangladesh, Murphy traces the methods and imaginaries through which family planning calculated lives not worth living, lives not worth saving, and lives not worth being born. The resulting archive of thick data transmuted into financialized “Invest in a Girl” campaigns that reframed survival as a question of human capital. The book challenges readers to reject the economy as our collective container and to refuse population as a term of reproductive justice.