Postcolonial Studies – serie
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30 produkter
Migrant Form
Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray
Inbunden, 2010
1160 kr
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Migrant Form examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics. Among the questions it engages are the following: What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses its resistance to dominance and …
Environmental History of Postcolonial North India
The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal
Inbunden, 2009
1114 kr
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An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India is a study of an increasingly important part of the Indian landscape. It examines the social process of accelerated land use as it has been affected by political and epidemiological factors and pays particular attention to the shifting …
Postcolonial Citizen
The Intellectual Migrant
Inbunden, 2010
911 kr
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The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement from the formerly colonized …
Indian Writers
Transnationalisms and Diasporas
Av Jaspal K. Singh, Rajendra Chetty
Inbunden, 2009
992 kr
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Indian Writers attempt to locate diasporic voices in the interstitial spaces of countless ideologies. The anthology provides a critical examination of dislocated diasporic subjects – those who have adjusted to the dislocation well, those who have chosen the hybrid spaces for empowerment, those who …
Democratic Promise
The Individual Within the Community
Inbunden, 2012
1139 kr
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The Democratic Promise engages Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic and cultural reading of politics and terror, Jacques Rancière’s concept of the partition of the sensible, Alain Badiou’s ethics and politics, and Jacques Derrida’s thoughts on philosophy in a time of terror in order to radically rethink …
Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing
Av Jaspal K. Singh, Rajendra Chetty
Inbunden, 2010
1225 kr
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The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of apartheid policies and …
Haram in the Harem
Domestic Narratives in India and Algeria
Inbunden, 2009
1040 kr
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Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of India. During each of these periods the …
Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism
Inbunden, 2009
1095 kr
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A number of the greatest classics (both old and modern) of English literature, extending from Antony and Cleopatra to A Passage to India, contain a sympathetic portrayal of the East, which connects them to each other in a way that justifies the term «literary orientalism». Literary Orientalism, …
Identity in Place
Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Inbunden, 2011
1051 kr
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Identity in Place analyzes the role of place and its cultural significance in the fiction of eight contemporary Indigenous women writers from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, four former colonies of the British Empire. Identity in Place addresses how the places Indigenous …
Immigration and Contemporary British Theater
Finding a Home on the Stage
Inbunden, 2014
926 kr
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Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history, and migration studies, the …
Play of Reasons
The Sacred and the Profane in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction
Inbunden, 2012
1181 kr
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The Play of Reasons argues that Salman Rushdie’s eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. Rushdie’s prose is difficult to conceive as unitary in meaning precisely because it operates according to a polymorphous Islamic literary …
Fabric of Subcultures
Networks, Ethnic Force Fields, and Peoples without Power
Inbunden, 2011
1397 kr
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The Fabric of Subcultures reflects on the state of the postcolonial signature behind stylistic refinements – a world of letters relatively dependent on the West for economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile …
Literary Map of Spain in the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2013
1117 kr
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A Literary Map of Spain in the 21st Century is a unique scholarly publication that participates in the debates of literary researchers by exploring the linguistic and literary map of Spain in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is centered in a particular cultural and linguistic area of Spain; …
Imagined Topographies
From Colonial Resource to Postcolonial Homeland
Inbunden, 2012
1117 kr
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One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as threatening by the Europeans who …
Caribbean Food Cultures
Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Av Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Bruske m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
590 kr
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»Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The …
Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies
A Critical Encounter
Häftad, 2016
635 kr
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The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony«, …
Photography in Latin America
Images and Identities Across Time and Space
Av Gisela Canepa Koch, Ingrid Kummels
Häftad, 2016
539 kr
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Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new …
(Post)Colonial Histories
Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War
Av Steffi Hobu¿, Benedikt Jager
Häftad, 2017
340 kr
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The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tries to regain mental health and reconciliation.The film marks the stepping-stone for this volume: The contributions examine different facets like the …
Transnational Black Dialogues
Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
Av Markus Nehl
Häftad, 2016
573 kr
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Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of …
Promise of Diversity – How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities and Work
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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Nicolas Wasser critically examines how sexual and racial identities are currently being articulated through capitalist brands and labor. On the basis of an ethnographic case study about a Brazilian fashion enterprise, he shows how young – lesbian, gay and black – sales employees align themselves …
Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies – The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of …
Entanglements of the Maghreb – Cultural and Political Aspects of a Region in Motion
Av Charlotte Pardey, Friederike Pannewick m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
439 kr
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The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. …
Alleviative Objects – Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art
Häftad, 2021
469 kr
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The global field of contemporary art is shaped by inter-racial conflicts. Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through intersectional entanglements and combines decolonial epistemologies with critical whiteness studies and affect theory in order to rethink `Euro- and U.S.-centric' …
Securitising Decolonisation
The Silencing of Ewe and Togoland Unification under United Nations Trusteeship, 1945-1960
Av Julius Heise
Häftad, 2024
964 kr
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With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. Using language conveying insecurity, the movement seized the international spotlight, ensuring that the topic of unification dominated the UN …
Anti-Asian Racism in Transatlantic Perspectives
History, Theory, Cultural Representations and Social Movements
Av Kien Nghi Ha
Häftad, 2027
594 kr
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sinophobia and anti-Asian hate made media headlines. The contributors to this volume discuss how anti-Asian projections and colonial-racist narratives have shaped modernity and Western immigrant nations, employing a transatlantic perspective in addressing different …
Decolonising the Future Academy in Africa and Beyond
Institutional Development and Collaboration
Av Michaela Pelican, Karim Zafer m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
674 kr
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What does it mean to decolonise academia in Africa? Is this important project limited to the humanities? Is it a project for the future? Are there forerunners at African universities today? The contributors to this volume show different trajectories for anthropology as a discipline and for …
Troubling Archives
History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art
Häftad, 2025
1213 kr
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Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and South African colonial rule and engage creatively with the persistent remnants of the past. In their works, the archive remains both an invaluable and …
Black British Music Video
Grime Culture, the Ends, and the Neoliberal City
Häftad, 2026
609 kr
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Since the early 2000s, creatives in UK grime music and attendant genres have voiced and displayed dissent toward neoliberal politics and violent inner-city planning through the medium of music video. Julian Wacker shows that music videos produced for artists such as Dizzee Rascal, Jorja Smith, …
Arab Modernities
Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-Colonial Arab World
Av Jaafar Aksikas, Maria C. Zamora
Häftad, 2009
463 kr
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Arab Modernities is a critical interrogation of some of the ideologies of so-called modernity and modernization in the post-colonial Arab world, with a specific focus on three political ideologies: liberalism, nationalism, and Islamism. By providing a critical analysis of the work of major Arab …
