Author: Pheng Cheah
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478023953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center-periphery, colonizer-colonized, and developed-developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China’s attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony; the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule; Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism; and Hong Kong’s complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory’s central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the Sinosphere. Challenging fundamental axioms of postcolonial studies, this volume forcefully suggests that postcolonial theory needs to be rethought. Contributors. Pheng Cheah, Dai Jinhua, Caroline S. Hau, Elaine Yee Lin Ho, Wendy Larson, Liao Ping-hui, Lin Pei-yin, Lo Kwai-Cheung, Lui Tai-lok, Pang Laikwan, Lisa Rofel, David Wang, Erebus Wong, Robert J. C. Young
Author: Kanika Batra
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100043012X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance. The book’s comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, these sources offer a way to examine the convergences and divergences between postcolonial feminist, gay, and lesbian activism. It charts a set of concerns common to feminist, gay, and lesbian activist literature: retrogressive colonial-era legislation impacting the status of women and sexual minorities; a marked increase in sexual violence; piecemeal reproductive freedoms and sexual choice under neoliberalism; the emergence and management of the HIV/AIDS crisis; precariousness of lesbian and transgender concerns within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements; and Non-Governmental Organizations as major actors articulating sexual rights as human rights. This methodologically innovative work is based on archival historical research, analyses of national and international policy documents, close readings of activist publications, and conversations with activists and founding editors. This is an important intervention in the field of gender and sexuality studies and is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Futures, Subversive Histories prize in partnership with the NWSA. The book is key reading for scholars and students in gender, sexuality, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Alaoui Hichami Taoufik
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527545148
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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This book investigates the postcolonial aspects of the translations of Ahlam Mostaghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh and Tayeb Saleh’s Season of Migration to the North. It argues that both novels provide an image of the shift of persona in the post-colonial Arab world, and how individuals have been affected with that change. It also sheds light on that sense of “homesickness” felt by individuals when they are in a host country, and how they dealt with that situation. The themes of “identity”, “romance” and “feminism” are highlighted in order to help readers gain a clear view of the experiences of the characters.
Author: Miriamne Ara Krummel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Confronts the fraught temporal dissonances that are written into the structure of sacred Jewish and Christian time
Author: Niti Sampat Patel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136537155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Antoinette M. Burton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822340713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American authors career to analyze broader issues of postwar Americas understanding of itself and the wider world.
Author: Raphael Dalleo
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781383790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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The collected essays demonstrate the ways postcolonial studies has adapted Bourdieu’s sociology of literature to examine the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of postcolonialism as a field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital, consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial texts.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004548874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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What is the role of literature in our global landscape today? How do local authors respond to the growing worldwide power of English and the persisting effects of the colonial systems that paved the way for globalization today? These questions have often been approached very differently by postcolonialists and by students of world literature, but over the past two decades, a developing dialogue between these divergent approaches has produced robust scholarship and sometimes fractious debate, as issues of language, politics, and cultural difference have come to the fore. Drawing on a wide variety of cases, from medieval Wales to contemporary Syria and Australia, and on works written in Arabic, Basque, English, Hindi, and more, this collection explores the mutual illumination that can be gained through the interaction of postcolonial and world literary perspectives.
Author: A. Bery
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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This book uses the framework of cultural translation to explore the work of six significant modern writers from Ireland, India, Australia and the Caribbean. Written in an accessible and approachable style, it will be of interest not only to specialists in postcolonial literatures, but also readers of modern and contemporary poetry more generally.
Author: Edward P. Antonio
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820467351
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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What is inculturation? How is it practiced and what is its relationship to colonial and postcolonial discourses? In what ways, if any, does inculturation represent the decolonization of Christianity in Africa? This book explores these questions and argues that inculturation is a species of postcolonial discourse by placing it in the larger context of what has now come to be known as Africanism and by showing how the latter - and through it inculturation itself - fully participates in the history of postcolonial struggles for indigenous self-definition in Africa. The thirteen contributors to this volume represent a group of young scholars from the southern, eastern, and western regions of Africa. They come from different disciplines: theology, philosophy, and biblical studies. Although they take different approaches to the question of inculturation, the fact that they engage it at all is illustrative of the methodological significance of inculturation in African theology.
