Martina Kopf - Böcker

This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa.Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic viewpoints, this book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, it offers new and unique perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualises the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of colonial development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and postcolonial studies.Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, Developing Africa is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history.

This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa.Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic viewpoints, this book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, it offers new and unique perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualises the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of colonial development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and postcolonial studies.Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, Developing Africa is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history.

In recent years, the concept of postmigration has become increasingly relevant to interdisciplinary research, whether it refers to a postmigrant generation (of authors or musicians), to a postmigrant societies or perspectives. The parallels to postcolonialism have been repeatedly emphasized. But to what extent do the two approaches overlap in terms of content and structure? This volume is the result of a Franco-German collaboration and aims to answer this question beyond strictly national contexts, through theoretical reflections and case studies from both French- and German-language literature and music. The contributions deal with the relationship between rap, contemporary literature and migration, intermedial relationships between literature and music, identity and body concepts of a postmigrant generation, postmigrant linguistic reflections and practices, as well as postcolonial and postmigrant society models.

Auch in der Weltliteratur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts wird der Berg zu einem besonderen Ort, der an Transgression gekoppelte Aufstieg zu einer Erkenntnisbewegung und das sowohl in den Alpen als auch in den Anden. Die komparatistisch angelegte Studie stellt sich den Herausforderungen eines interkulturellen Vergleichs und spürt den Zusammenhängen europäischer und lateinamerikanischer Literatur nach, um nicht nur kulturspezifische Charakteristika herauszuarbeiten, sondern kulturübergreifende Funktionen literarischer Gebirgslandschaften zu identifizieren. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei v.a. Schweizer und peruanische Autoren: M. Frisch, L. Hohl, C.-F. Ramuz sowie C. Alegría, J. M. Arguedas, M. Vargas Llosa.