The Pull Of Postcolonial Nationhood

Author : Ayo A. Coly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739145135

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The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood by Ayo A. Coly Pdf

Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. Coly studies what home means in the context of migration and how gender shapes the meaning of home. This is the first study to bring together migrant women from Francophone Africa. This is also the first study to offer a feminist critique of postnationalist discourses of home, specifically the application of postnationalism to the postcolonial context.

Author : Ayo A. Coly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496214898

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Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women’s Discourses of the Female Bod by Ayo A. Coly Pdf

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women’s sexuality “haunt” contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which—by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women’s sexuality—generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how “ghosts” from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women’s sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women’s power and autonomy.

Author : Babacar M'Baye,Besi Brillian Muhonja
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793601131

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Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies by Babacar M'Baye,Besi Brillian Muhonja Pdf

Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, and development studies, among others, Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have thus far been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive, centering within Senegalese studies themes and elements of alternative, nonbinary, variant, and nonheteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices. Contributors demonstrate that nationalist and anticolonial discourses propelled by deep and lingering socioeconomic inequalities have led, in postcolonial Senegal, to vitriolic scapegoating of individuals and communities with variant sexual and gender identities. The chapters in this volume look inward to the voices and experiences of the Senegalese people to challenge nationalist representations of advocacy for the liberation of gender and sexual minorities in Senegal as a function of a Western neocolonialist agenda.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004464315

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Nationalism and the Postcolonial by Anonim Pdf

The contributions in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine forms, representations, and consequences of ubiquitous nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature across the globe from the perspectives of linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies.

Author : El Hadji Malick Ndiaye,Moussa Sow
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476625362

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The Body in Francophone Literature by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye,Moussa Sow Pdf

Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bolster colonial French notions of national grandeur and to justify expansion of French territories overseas. A form of colonial exoticism saw the colonized subject as a physical, cultural, aesthetic and even sexual singularity. Francophone writers sought to rehabilitate the status of non–Western peoples who, through the use of anthropometric techniques, had been racially classified as inferior or primitive. Drawing on various Francophone texts, this collection of new essays offers a compelling study of the literary body—both corporeal and figurative. Topics include the embodiment of diasporic identity, the body politic in prison writing, women’s bodies, and the body’s expression of trauma inflicted by genocidal violence.

Author : Jerome C Branche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.

Author : Anna-Leena Toivanen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004444751

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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures by Anna-Leena Toivanen Pdf

In Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, Anna-Leena Toivanen explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories of cosmopolitanism reflecting the privileged, pragmatic, and critical aspects of the concept. The main scientific contribution of Toivanen’s book is its attempt to enhance dialogue between postcolonial literary studies and mobilities research. The book criticises reductive understandings of ‘mobility’ as a synonym for migration, and problematises frequently made links between mobility and cosmopolitanism. Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms adopts a comparative approach to Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures, often discussed separately despite their common themes and parallel paths.

Author : Professor Eve Rosenhaft,Robbie Aitken
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846317842

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Africa in Europe by Professor Eve Rosenhaft,Robbie Aitken Pdf

The book examines the ways in which people of African descent have negotiated the challenges of building private life and community in Europe since the late 19th century, considering how their experiences involves crossing borders into and across a multinational European space and creating alliances across lines of language, ethnicity and colour.

Author : Sandra Bermann,Catherine Porter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118616154

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A Companion to Translation Studies by Sandra Bermann,Catherine Porter Pdf

This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field A thorough introduction to translation studies for both undergraduates and graduates Multi-disciplinary relevance for students with diverse career goals

Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi,Carli Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351859370

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Routledge Handbook of African Literature by Moradewun Adejunmobi,Carli Coetzee Pdf

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco-criticism, and examinations of the human/animal interface alongside more familiar discussions of postcolonial politics. Every chapter is an original research essay written by a broad spectrum of scholars with expertise in the subject, providing an application of the most recent insights into analysis of particular topics or application of particular critical frameworks to one or more African literary works. The handbook will be a valuable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students of African literature, African culture, postcolonial literature and literary analysis. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138713864_oachapter4.pdf

Author : David A. Jasen,Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826400468

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Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed by David A. Jasen,Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Guide To The often complex area of postcolonial theory and literature from its historical origins to contemporary critical thinking and issues.

Author : Christopher Hogarth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000770087

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Afropean Female Selves by Christopher Hogarth Pdf

Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe and Africa in different languages (French and Italian). Their work involves episodes from their lived experience and complicates Western understandings of life writing and autobiography. As Hogarth shows in this study, the works of Diome and Scego encapsulate the new and complex identities of contemporary "Afropeans." As an identity coined and used frequently by prominent authors and critics across Europe, Africa and North America, the notion of "Afropean" is at the cutting edge of cultural analyses today. Yet each writer occupies unique and different positions within this debated category. While Scego is a "post-migratory subject" in postcolonial Europe, Diome is an African writer who has migrated to Europe in her adult life. This book examines the different trajectories and packaging of these two specific postcolonial writers in the Francophone and Italophone contexts, pointing out how and where each author practices life writing strategies and scrutinizing the trend that emphasizes the life writing, autofictional, or autoethnographic strategies of African diasporic writers. Afropean Female Selves offers a comparative study across two languages of a notion that has so far been explored mainly in English. It explores the contours of this new discursive category and positions it in regard to other notions of Afrodiasporic identity, such as Afropolitan and Afro-European.

Author : Nicki Hitchcott,Dominic Richard David Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781380345

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Francophone Afropean Literatures by Nicki Hitchcott,Dominic Richard David Thomas Pdf

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Author : Kenneth W. Harrow,Frieda Ekotto
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253016034

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Rethinking African Cultural Production by Kenneth W. Harrow,Frieda Ekotto Pdf

Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.

Author : Sheri Dion
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781575911861

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A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885 by Sheri Dion Pdf