Postcolonial Europe

Lars Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. Julia Suárez-Krabbe is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. Christian Groes is Associate Professor of Cultural Encounters in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark.Zoran Lee Pecic is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copehagen.

This compelling volume demonstrates that decolonization is an ongoing process affecting all Europeans now. Its authors invite us to reassess the intellectual and cultural geography of European colonialism and reflect on its racial and dehumanizing legacies. At the crossroads between postcolonial and decolonial studies, this book argues that colonial tropes and rhetoric still underpin contemporary narratives of nationhood and otherhood.

• Introduction, Lars Jensen, Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Christian Groes, and Zoran Pecic / 1. Uneven Whiteness. Images of Blackness and Whiteness in contemporary (postcolonial) Italy (2010-2012), Gaia Giuliani / 2. Challenging the Domestic Colonial Archive: Notes on the Racialization of the Italian Mezzogiorno, Carmine Conelli / 3. ‘El Moro’ – Discovering the hidden coloniality of the contemporary Spanish/Catalan society and its colonial subjects, Martin Lundsteen / 4. The Coloniality of Power and the Disempowerment of the Roma, Sabrina Marks and Miye Nadya Tom / 5. Claiming Greyness: Dutch Coloniality Against Polarisation, Patricia Schor and Egbert Alejandro Martina / 6. How to Draw a Haunted Nation: Colonial Ghosts and Specters in Conceição Lima’s Poems, Inês Nascimento Rodrigues / 7. Who Speaks the Postcolonial Community? Reflections on Language, Community, and Imperial Nostalgia within the European Continent, Elena Brugioni / 8. ‘Translation as a Place of Loss’: A Study of the Translations of Fanon’s Peau Noire,