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Postcolonial Lack

Author : Gautam Basu Thakur
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438477695

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Postcolonial Lack by Gautam Basu Thakur Pdf

Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narratives of othering, exclusion, and cultural appropriation. Seeking to resolve the mutual suspicion between the disciplines, Gautam Basu Thakur draws out the connections existing between Lacan's teachings on subjectivity and otherness and writings of postcolonial and decolonial theorists such as Gayatri Spivak, Frantz Fanon, and Homi Bhabha. By developing new readings of the marginalized other as radical impasse and pushing the envelope on neoliberal identity politics, the book moves postcolonial studies away from the perennial topic of identity and difference and into examining the form and function of the other as excess--surplus and/or lack--in colonial and postcolonial literature, film, and social discourse. Looking at writings by Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Leila Aboulela, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Katherine Boo, and films by Gillo Pontecorvo, Clint Eastwood, Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), and Tony Gatlif, Basu Thakur highlights a new set of ethical and political considerations emerging as a direct result of this shift and stakes a fundamental rethinking of postcoloniality through what he calls the "politics of ontological discordance."

Postcolonial Lack

Author : Gautam Basu Thakur
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438477718

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Postcolonial Lack by Gautam Basu Thakur Pdf

Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narratives of othering, exclusion, and cultural appropriation. Seeking to resolve the mutual suspicion between the disciplines, Gautam Basu Thakur draws out the connections existing between Lacan's teachings on subjectivity and otherness and writings of postcolonial and decolonial theorists such as Gayatri Spivak, Frantz Fanon, and Homi Bhabha. By developing new readings of the marginalized other as radical impasse and pushing the envelope on neoliberal identity politics, the book moves postcolonial studies away from the perennial topic of identity and difference and into examining the form and function of the other as excess—surplus and/or lack—in colonial and postcolonial literature, film, and social discourse. Looking at writings by Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Leila Aboulela, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Katherine Boo, and films by Gillo Pontecorvo , Clint Eastwood, Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), and Tony Gatlif, Basu Thakur highlights a new set of ethical and political considerations emerging as a direct result of this shift and stakes a fundamental rethinking of postcoloniality through what he calls the "politics of ontological discordance."

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Author : Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791441733

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Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial by Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham Pdf

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.

Postcolonialism After World Literature

Author : Lorna Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350053045

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Postcolonialism After World Literature by Lorna Burns Pdf

Postcolonial studies took shape in response to the nationalist and decolonization movements of the twentieth century. Today, a resurgent interest in world literature reflects an increased awareness of globalization. These twin projects are torn between a criticism that finds in the text the trace of capitalist modernity and one that accounts for the revolutionary potential of literature to challenge our global present. Postcolonialism After World Literature exposes what is at stake in this critical choice through a line of philosophical enquiry – Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Rancière – that poses an alternative to the materialist strand of world literary criticism pioneered by Pascale Casanova and Franco Moretti. Engaging with these theorists and others, Lorna Burns contests world-systems theory as the basis for thinking about contemporary postcolonial and world literatures, and proposes a renewed framework that promotes literature's capacity to provoke dissent; to imagine new forms of belonging and relation for both national and world citizens; and to stage the shared equality of all. Moving between theory and the novels of Roberto Bolaño, J. M. Coetzee, Kamel Daoud, Dany Laferrière, Pauline Melville, Arundhati Roy and Kamila Shamsie, Postcolonialism After World Literature presents the case for rethinking world literature in light of the legacies of postcolonialism, and for reshaping postcolonial studies in an era of world literature. Lorna Burns is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Postcoloniality - Decoloniality - Black Critique

Author : Sabine Broeck,Sabine Bröck-Sallah,Carsten Junker
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783593501925

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Postcoloniality - Decoloniality - Black Critique by Sabine Broeck,Sabine Bröck-Sallah,Carsten Junker Pdf

How can Western Modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? The volume maps out answers to this question from the fields of Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Black Studies, delineating converging and diverging positions, approaches, and trajectories. It assembles contributions by renowned scholars of the respective fields, intervening in History, Sociology, Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Literary Studies, and Philosophy."

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic

Author : Jerome C Branche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351667807

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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.

Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture

Author : Sandra Ponzanesi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791484517

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Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture by Sandra Ponzanesi Pdf

This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebù Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender and ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new élan.

Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia

Author : Nukhbah Taj Langah,Roshni Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000422573

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Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia by Nukhbah Taj Langah,Roshni Sengupta Pdf

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.

Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education

Author : V. Andreotti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230337794

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Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education by V. Andreotti Pdf

Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering pedagogical projects. She offers an accessible and useful overview and comparison of theoretical debates related to critiques of Western/Northern hegemony.

Postcolonialism and Science Fiction

Author : J. Langer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230356054

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Postcolonialism and Science Fiction by J. Langer Pdf

Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first comprehensive study of the complex and developing relationship between the two areas.

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze

Author : Lorna Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441156211

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Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze by Lorna Burns Pdf

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought - postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized. Drawing from Deleuze's writings on Bergson, Nietzsche and Spinoza, this study interrogates the postcolonial tropes of newness, becoming, relationality and a philosophical concept of immanence that lie at the heart of a little-observed dialogue between contemporary Caribbean writers and Deleuze.

Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature

Author : Bijay Kumar Das
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, Indic
ISBN : 8126907894

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Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature by Bijay Kumar Das Pdf

The Present Book Is An Attempt To Analyse Some Of The Outstanding Post-Colonial Writers Like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize Winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize Winner), Margaret Atwood (Booker Prize Winner 2000), Jayanta Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond (All Sahitya Akademi Award Winners) In The Light Of Post-Colonial Theory. Apart From Analysing Individual Authors, An Attempt Has Also Been Made To Show The Trends In Post-Colonial Poetry, Indian English Fiction, Orissan Contribution To Post-Colonial Indian English Literature And Above All, Post-Colonial English Studies In India.

Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism

Author : Leonard Orr
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081563188X

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Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism by Leonard Orr Pdf

On the surface, James Joyce’s work is largely apolitical. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. However, perspectives on the colonial history of Ireland have proliferated in recent years, yielding a subtle and complex conception of the Irish postcolonial experience that has become a major theme in current Joyce scholarship. In this volume Leonard Orr brings together a diverse collection of essays situating Joyce in the debates generated by postcolonial theory and discourse. Highly original and often provocative, these essays bring Joyce powerfully within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres

Author : Walter Goebel,Saskia Schabio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135936303

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Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres by Walter Goebel,Saskia Schabio Pdf

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.

Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory

Author : Celia Britton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813918499

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Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory by Celia Britton Pdf

Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Britton (French, Aberdeen U., Scotland) situates Glissant within ongoing debates in postcolonial theory, making connections between his novels and theoretical work and the work of Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhanha, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Focusing on language and subjectivity, discussion moves between analysis of Glissant's theoretical work and detailed readings of his novels. Major themes central to his writing, such as the reappropriation of history, standard and vernacular language, and the colonial construction of the Other, are addressed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR