The Collected Edition Of Roger Dorsinville S Postcolonial Literary Criticism In Africa 1982 1986

Author : Roger Dorsinville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015057648712

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The Collected Edition of Roger Dorsinville's Postcolonial Literary Criticism in Africa: 1982-1986 by Roger Dorsinville Pdf

The contribution of this collection to scholarship is fourfold: it contributes to the expansion of knowledge about the African continent through a critic's response to its many forms of representation by writers outside as well as inside Africa; the range of writings provides intertextual evidence supportive of Dorsinville's own complex representation of Africa in his fiction and memoirs; it is a documented record of a broad paradigm concerned with a postcolonial representation of the dialectic of home and exile, memory and identity, and selfhood and otherness; and it provides a fascinating display of a postcolonial writer-critic's intellectual journey enlivened by his use of voice in the African tradition of oral exchange whereby he positions himself as the one speaking to and for the many. The volumes follow the original chronology of the publication of the individual texts. The contents range widely from books on (or by) many African and Caribbean writers, as well as Doris Lessing, David Halberstam, Idi Amin and Muhammad Ali.

Author : Roger Dorsinville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015057648704

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The Collected Edition of Roger Dorsinville's Postcolonial Literary Criticism in Africa: 1976-1981 by Roger Dorsinville Pdf

The contribution of this collection to scholarship is fourfold: it contributes to the expansion of knowledge about the African continent through a critic's response to its many forms of representation by writers outside as well as inside Africa; the range of writings provides intertextual evidence supportive of Dorsinville's own complex representation of Africa in his fiction and memoirs; it is a documented record of a broad paradigm concerned with a postcolonial representation of the dialectic of home and exile, memory and identity, and selfhood and otherness; and it provides a fascinating display of a postcolonial writer-critic's intellectual journey enlivened by his use of voice in the African tradition of oral exchange whereby he positions himself as the one speaking to and for the many. The volumes follow the original chronology of the publication of the individual texts. The contents range widely from books on (or by) many African and Caribbean writers, as well as Doris Lessing, David Halberstam, Idi Amin and Muhammad Ali.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415345650

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The Post-colonial Studies Reader by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

Boasting new extracts from major works in the field, as well as an impressive list of contributors, this second edition of a bestselling Reader is an invaluable introduction to the most seminal texts in post-colonial theory and criticism.

Author : Jessica Homberg-Schramm
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013290127

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"Colonised by Wankers" by Jessica Homberg-Schramm Pdf

"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottish novels, this study explores the postcolonial in Scottish fiction in order to investigate the underlying discursive power relations that shape the Scottish literary imagination. The study consequently demonstrates that the analysis of Scottish national identity profits from this new angle of interpretation of the Scottish novel as postcolonial. The analysis of discourses such as those of gender, class, space and place, and race reveals how the construction of the Scottish as marginalised permeates the width of the contemporary Scottish novel, by referring to diverse examples, such as James Kelman's How late it was, how late or genre fiction such as Ian Rankin's Set in Darkness. Thus, this study provides an insightful reading in the wake of current political developments such as the Scottish independence referendum." This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : John Patrick Walsh
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786941633

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Migration and Refuge by John Patrick Walsh Pdf

This book argues that contemporary Haitian literature historicizes the political and environmental problems raised by the 2010 earthquake by building on texts of earlier generations. It contends that this literary "eco-archive" challenges universalizing narratives of the Anthropocene with depictions of migration and refuge within Haiti and around the Americas.

Author : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,Angela Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107354784

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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,Angela Rosenthal Pdf

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.

Author : Alex La Guma
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810101394

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A Walk in the Night by Alex La Guma Pdf

Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960. During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he was detained for five months. Continuing to write, he endured house arrest and solitary confinement. La Guma left South Africa as a refugee in 1966 and lived in exile in London and Havana. He died in 1986. A Walk in the Night and Other Stories reveals La Guma as one of the most important African writers of his time. These works reveal the plight of non-whites in apartheid South Africa, laying bare the lives of the poor and the outcasts who filled the ghettoes and shantytowns.

Author : Catherine Goetze
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472053414

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The Distinction of Peace by Catherine Goetze Pdf

Investigates both the creation of the peacebuilding field and what the field reveals about global relations

Author : Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134876990

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Post-Colonial Drama by Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins Pdf

Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed in Post-Colonial Drama include: * the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories * the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history * the specific enactments of ritual and carnival * the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

Author : Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Publisher : Transoceanic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814212468

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Conflict Bodies by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Pdf

Explores the relationship between rape and narratives of violence in francophone literature and culture.

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Thinking Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1869142446

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On African Fault Lines by V. Y. Mudimbe Pdf

This collection of meditations reformulates the experience of African studies as a concern with three thematics: Africa's place within today's intellectual, economic, and cultural configurations; the main axes that structure disciplinary practices concerned with African difference; and the possibility of understanding being-in-the-world with reference to alienation, creativity, and friendship. *** This book is highly innovative in its re-evaluation of alterity. It marshalls a broad range of theories from Adorno to Marx to Walter Benjamin, all the while "grounding" it in African politics and aesthetics through the lens of Yacouba Konate. A veritable tour de force, if ever there was one. - Kgomotso Masemola, Associate Professor of English, U. of South Africa (Series: Thinking Africa)

Author : Melissa Templeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : OCLC:849350126

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Polyrhythmic Dance Currents by Melissa Templeton Pdf

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046481803

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Here is Queer by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : Michael Deibert
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783608003

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Haiti Will Not Perish by Michael Deibert Pdf

The world’s first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in the fire of history’s only successful slave revolution. Yet more than two hundred years later, the full promise of that revolution – a free country and a free people – remains unfulfilled. Home for more than a decade to one of the world’s largest UN peacekeeping forces, Haiti's tumultuous political culture – buffeted by coups and armed political partisans – combined with economic inequality and environmental degradation to create immense difficulties even before the devastating 2010 earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. This grim tale, however, is not the whole story. In this moving and detailed history, Michael Deibert, who has spent two decades reporting on Haiti, chronicles the heroic struggles of Haitians to build their longed-for country in the face of overwhelming odds. Based on hundreds of interviews with Haitian political leaders, international diplomats, peasant advocates and gang leaders, as well as ordinary Haitians, Deibert’s book provides a vivid, complex and challenging analysis of Haiti’s recent history.