The Postcolonial Contemporary
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The Postcolonial Contemporary
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Author : Jini Kim Watson
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2018-07-03
The Postcolonial Contemporary written by Jini Kim Watson and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with Political Science categories.
This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed during the 1970s and 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present? In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines—history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies— and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) The Postcolonial Contemporary seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. These essays signal an attempt to reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments and do so under four inter-related analytics: Postcolonial Temporality; Deprovincializing the Global South; Beyond Marxism versus Postcolonial Studies; and Postcolonial Spatiality and New Political Imaginaries.
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
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Author : Padmini Mongia
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory written by Padmini Mongia and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist, traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader, on the other hand, offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the 'disciplining of knowledge', where the multiple resonances of the word 'disciplining' are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally, since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices, the commentary problematizes the writing of histories, the formations of canons, and indeed the production of Readers.
The Postcolonial Lamp
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Author : Remi Raji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Postcolonial Lamp written by Remi Raji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with African literature (English) categories.
The Postcolonial Country In Contemporary Literature
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Author : L. Loh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-25
The Postcolonial Country In Contemporary Literature written by L. Loh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network of empire, this book collectively critiques not only the rural heritage industry of the 1980s in Britain but also the effect of neocolonial globalisation on postcolonial rural spaces.
Edward Said And The Post Colonial
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Author : Hussein Kadhim
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Edward Said And The Post Colonial written by Hussein Kadhim and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edward Said & the Post-Colonial
Postcolonial London
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Author : Michael Koehler
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-07-20
Postcolonial London written by Michael Koehler and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Postmodern and/or Postcolonial:Contemporary Writing from Britain and the Commonwealth, language: English, abstract: Zadie Smith’s novel "White Teeth" deals with families and generations from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and in the four main chapters Archie 1974, 1945, Samad 1984, 1857, Irie 1990, 1907, and Magid, Millat and Marcus 1992, 1999, she approaches them from several angles. As a result, there has been a discussion on who is to be treated as the central character in this novel. One possible answer to this is offered by Nina Shen Rastogi: The main character in White Teeth isn’t a character in any traditional sense – it’s the city of London itself. Smith’s goal is less to paint a portrait of any particular character than it is to create a large-scale character sketch of a particular place and a particular time. White Teeth is about the foibles of a community of near-strangers and almost-friends as it collectively stumbles towards an uncertain future. The paper will investigate this approach by dealing with London as it is depicted in this postcolonial novel. After a working definition on the diversely discussed notion of postcolonialism (I.1), there will be a closer look on London, both as a physical location (I.2.a) and a literary region (I.2.b). The main issues will be the history of immigration, facts about multiculturalism today, and a brief look on how the colonial legacy has been depicted in postcolonial literature in London. A conclusion (I.3) will summarize the results and present some main questions for the analysis of White Teeth (II). Here, the paper will take a look on the role of the characters interacting with each other and on how they compromise between their cultural legacy and London’s society (II.1). This will be the major part of the analysis. In two short chapters, this view will be extended by the use of location (II.2) and language (II.3). The conclusion finally tries to sum up the main aspects gathered in this line of argument.
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory
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Author : Padmini Mongia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory written by Padmini Mongia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literature, Modern categories.
Multiculturalism In Contemporary German Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO
Release Date : 1995
Multiculturalism In Contemporary German Literature written by and has been published by UNESCO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Collections categories.
Twelve German-speaking authors offer a contribution to the multicultural discourse of minority groups living in German-speaking countries.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Author : Tom Burns
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary Literary Criticis
Release Date : 2004-08
Contemporary Literary Criticism written by Tom Burns and has been published by Contemporary Literary Criticis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
This Shipwreck Of Fragments
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Author : Li-Chun Hsiao
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009
This Shipwreck Of Fragments written by Li-Chun Hsiao and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
In the light of, and in response to, the popular perception of the Caribbean as an epitome of cultural hybridity and improvisation, this book seeks to further examine Caribbean cultural identities along the lines of race, class, nationalism, and history. Drawing on a variety of genres of literature and popular music, the present volume includes not only essays that stress the shaping and reshaping of Afro-Caribbean cultural identities and the significance of hybridization, but also those that think against the grain and pursue questions which have not received enough critical attention. This latter task can be seen in the attempt to probe the phenomenon that the Caribbean's image as a tropical getaway in metropolitan popular imaginations tends to eclipse its troubled pasts, traumatic memories, and current (and recurrent) problems which elude the rhetoric of cultural hybridity, presupposing instead a certain non-conflictual diversity or racial equality in the relatively innocuous realm of culture. Although nuanced among themselves on certain issues, the individual chapters together highlight a body of work which is distinct from the bulk of Anglo-American academic productions on the Caribbean, as the majority of the textual and cultural materials treated here come from either the Hispanic or Francophone Caribbean.