Postcolonial Passages

Author : Silvia Albertazzi,Francesco Cattani,Rita Monticelli,Federica Zullo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527525627

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(Post)Colonial Passages by Silvia Albertazzi,Francesco Cattani,Rita Monticelli,Federica Zullo Pdf

While entailing a subversive re-vision of colonial histories, geographies, and subjectivities, the (post)colonial condition has unleashed a chain of movements, relocations, and re-writings that interrogate the globalized and neoliberal society. Ethnic, “racial”, religious, gendered, and sexual identities have been called into question, and requested to (re)define, name, and re-name themselves, to find new ways to tell their stories/histories. The very term “postcolonial” has triggered well-known controversial debates: its adoption is significant of a cultural politics involving the colonial past, controversial crisis in the present, and an open perspective toward alternative futures. Confronting literature and the arts from a postcolonial perspective is a critical and political task involving theories and cultural productions crossing barriers amongst fields of knowledge. The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse yet interrelated cultural fields.

Author : Saurabh Dube
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060061283

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Postcolonial Passages by Saurabh Dube Pdf

Brings Into Mutual Dialogue Landmark Writings On Entire And Modernity, State And Nation And Colonial Questions And Post Colonial Problems-This Address A New Contentions Questions Of Historical Representation And Cultural Understanding. Divided Into 3 Parts With 15 Contributors.

Author : Tobias Döring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134520909

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Caribbean-English Passages by Tobias Döring Pdf

Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English writing radically redraws the map of world literature. This book is essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Gina Wisker
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042029354

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Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Gina Wisker Pdf

This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modem and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA , and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of passage derived from the work of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. Collectively, the essays suggest that women's writing and women's experiences from diverse cultures go beyond any straightforward notion of a threefold structure of separation, transition, and incorporation. Some essays include discussion of traditional rites of passage such as birth, motherhood, marriage, death, and bereavement; others are interested in exploring less traditional, more fluid, and/or problematic rites such as abortion, living with HI V/AIDS, and coming into political consciousness. Contributors seek ways of linking writing on rites of passage to feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theories which foreground margins, borders, and the outsider. The three opening essays explore the work of the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, whose groundbreaking work explored taboo subjects such as infanticide and incest. A wide range of other essays focus on writers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. including Jean Rhys, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Jean Arasanayagam, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and Eva Sallis. Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of postcolonial and modern and contemporary women's writing, and to students on literature and women's studies courses who want to study women's writing from a cross-cultural perspective and from different theoretical positions. Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo is Head of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research focus is on African literature (particularly Zimbabwean), contemporary women's writing, and postcolonial cinemas. Gina Wisker is Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton, where she teaches literature, is the head of the centre for learning and teaching, and pursues her research interests in postcolonial women's writing.

Author : Christopher GoGwilt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190454050

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The Passage of Literature by Christopher GoGwilt Pdf

Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction with one another. The Passage of Literature unites the three in a bracing comparative study that breaks away from traditional conceptions of modernism, going beyond temporal periodization and the entrenched Anglo-American framework that undergirds current scholarship. This study nimbly traces a trio of distinct yet interrelated modernist genealogies. English modernism as exemplified by Conrad's Malay trilogy is productively paired with the hallmark work of Indonesian modernism, Pramoedya's Buru quartet. The two novel sequences, penned years apart, narrate overlapping histories of imperialism in the Dutch East Indies, and both make opera central for understanding the cultural dynamic of colonial power. Creole modernism--defined not only by the linguistic diversity of the Caribbean but also by an alternative vision of literary history--provides a transnational context for reading Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea, each novel mapped in relation to the colonial English and postcolonial Indonesian coordinates of Conrad's The Shadow-Line and Pramoedya's This Earth of Mankind. All three modernisms-English, Creole, and Indonesian-converge in a discussion of the Indonesian figure of the nyai, a concubine or house servant, who represents the traumatic core of transnational modernism. Throughout the study, Pramoedya's extraordinary effort to reconstruct the lost record of Indonesia's emergence as a nation provides a model for reading each fragmentary passage of literature as part of an ongoing process of decolonizing tradition. Drawing on translated and un-translated works of fiction and nonfiction, GoGwilt effectively reexamines the roots of Anglophone modernist studies, thereby laying out the imperatives of a new postcolonial philology even as he resituates European modernism within the literary, linguistic, and historical context of decolonization.

Author : Pheng Cheah
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 023113018X

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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. 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.

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 : Walter Goebel,Saskia Schabio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.

Author : Anna Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 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.

Author : Mita Banerjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3860578367

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Postcolonial Passages by Mita Banerjee Pdf

Author : Janet Wilson,Chris Ringrose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329270

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New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing by Janet Wilson,Chris Ringrose Pdf

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical essays on postcolonial writing from the Caribbean, England, New Zealand and the Pacific, and features new work by 17 creative writers, all in honour of the postcolonial critic, Bruce King.

Author : David Sunderland
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : 9781843833017

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Managing British Colonial and Post-colonial Development by David Sunderland Pdf

A survey of the Crown Agents during a turbulent and eventful period.

Author : Saurabh Dube,Ishita Banerjee-Dube
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429648694

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Unbecoming Modern by Saurabh Dube,Ishita Banerjee-Dube Pdf

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America – Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few – discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This second edition to the volume comes with a new introduction which extends and critically supplements the discussion in the earlier introduction to the volume. It explores the vital impact of the colonial pasts of India, Mexico, China, and even the Unites States, on the processes through which these countries have become modern. The collection is unique, as it brings together a range of disciplines and perspectives. The topics discussed include the Zapatista movement in Southern Mexico, the image of the South in recent African-American literature, the theories of Andre Gunder Frank about the early modernization of Asian countries, and the contradictions of the colonial state in India.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135039752

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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including: Cosmopolitanism Development Fundamentalism Nostalgia Post-colonial cinema Sustainability Trafficking World Englishes. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts remains an essential guide for anyone studying this vibrant field.

Author : Mohammad Talib
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199088249

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Writing Labour by Mohammad Talib Pdf

In most globalizing economies, workers engaged in the informal sector occupy the lowest rungs of society. This book examines one such group—stone quarry workers located beyond the expanding rim of south Delhi and beneath the radar of effective law and policy. Drawing upon extensive case studies and personal narratives of this labouring class, Talib focuses on their inner world and interprets their life stories. He records the dwindling oral tradition of these people and brings to the fore the dynamics of survival. Questioning the discourse that views this group as passive objects, the book portrays them as active negotiators of their own circumstances. This work is crucial to an understanding of the current debates on labour and development studies. It presents the workers' story of social exclusion and struggle for survival, which is rarely heard amidst the counter narratives of the formal sector's economic boom.