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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postcolonialism
Book SynopsisThis seminal worknow available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new prefaceis a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topic Details the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders around the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and Asia Analyzes the ways in which freedom struggles contributed to postcolonial discourse by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western societies and cultures Offers an engaging yet accessible style that will appeal to scholars as well as introductory students Table of ContentsPreface to the Anniversary Edition ix Preface to the First Edition xxvi Acknowledgements xxix 1 Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique 1 Part I Concepts in History 13 2 Colonialism 15 3 Imperialism 25 4 Neocolonialism 44 5 Postcolonialism 57 Part II European Anti-colonialism 71 6 Las Casas to Bentham 73 7 Nineteenth‐Century Liberalism 88 8 Marx on Colonialism and Imperialism 101 Part III The Internationals 113 9 Socialism and Nationalism: The First International to the Russian Revolution 115 10 The Third International, to the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East 127 11 The Women’s International, the Third and the Fourth Internationals 140 Part IV Theoretical Practices of the Freedom Struggles 159 12 The National Liberation Movements: Introduction 161 13 Marxism and the National Liberation Movements 167 14 China, Egypt, Bandung 182 15 Latin America I: Mariátegui, Transculturation and Cultural Dependency 193 16 Latin America II: Cuba: Guevara, Castro and the Tricontinental 204 17 Africa I: Anglophone African Socialism 217 18 Africa II: Nkrumah and Pan‐Africanism 236 19 Africa III: The Senghors and Francophone African Socialism 253 20 Africa IV: Fanon/Cabral 274 21 The Subject of Violence: Algeria, Ireland 293 22 India I: Marxism in India 308 23 India II: Gandhi’s Counter‐modernity 317 Part V Formations of Postcolonial Theory 335 24 India III: Hybridity and Subaltern Agency 337 25 Women, Gender and Anti‐colonialism 360 26 Edward Said and Colonial Discourse 383 27 Foucault in Tunisia 395 28 Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria 411 Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a Transnational Social Justice 427 Letter in Response from Jacques Derrida 429 Bibliography 432 Index 476
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gandhi in Indias Literary and Cultural Imagination
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Liverpool University Press The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with
Book SynopsisThe Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Long Story Short Nadine Gordimer: Past, Present, and Future A Moment’s Monument: Counter-Monuments in Ivan Vladislavić Zoë Wicomb and the “Problem of Class” Phaswane Mpe’s Aesthetics of Brooding Spatial Form in Henrietta Rose-Innes Conclusion: Small Medium at Large
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Plays from Alienation and Freedom
Book SynopsisPrior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.Table of ContentsFrantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, by Robert J.C. Young 1 The Drowning Eye 2 Parallel Hands Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling
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Cambridge University Press Gospel Thrillers
Book SynopsisAccessible to general and academic readers, Gospel Thrillers interweaves close readings of key themes in a little studied fiction genre with 'real world' tensions over biblical vulnerability, evident in political and cultural debates over the Bible and in popular literature about the Bible and Christian origins.Table of Contents1. The Bible Hunters; 2. Birth of a Genre; 3. Shifting Sands; 4. Texts and Sects; 5. Knowledge Brokers; 6. Academic Thrillers.
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Cambridge University Press After Said
Book SynopsisBy the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said''s work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said''s work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said''s intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial liteTrade Review'Edward Said (1953–2003) was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of his era as well as a leading advocate of the Palestinian cause.' Times Higher Education'The ideas within this book will find traction with students, graduates, and senior researchers in postcolonial studies, Victorian and modernist studies, cosmopolitan and refugee studies, as well as with political theorists. This absorbing collection of essays engages with Said's core concepts and outlines his achievements. … The admirable strides in After Said to aright or modify some of Said's claims, to my mind, empower future scholars of empire to take Marxism more seriously.' Rena Jackson, Jacobin'After Said opens innumerate directions for future research and development. As such, it succeeds in its goal of showing, in astounding detail, nuance and scope, the many possible directions of postcolonial studies after Said.' Jonathan Lench, Journal of English Studies'This volume, then, extends beyond the specific legacy of Said and addresses postcolonial theory more generally. Provocations feature across the series, which is intended to appeal to the non-specialist but also frequently contains interpretations and applications of interest to the practising cultural critic. The standard is high and the topics are diverse.' Robin Sims, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory'Each chapter is distinctive either for being informative on some of the elements of Said's life, research and political career, or for trying to push forward the debate on some of the problems Said emphasized, or missed, to develop in a more balanced theoretical advance towards new directions.' Sanja Petkovska, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books'… After Said is an important and timely intervention into postcolonial studies and academic convention. As such, it is well worth reading.' Omar Zahzah, Journal of Palestine Studies'… an important, meticulously researched model for postcolonial and comparative cultural/literary studies.' Bryant Scott, Houston Review Of BooksTable of Contents1. Said's political humanism: an introduction Bashir Abu-Manneh; 2. Said: birth of the critic Conor McCarthy; 3. The dual legacy of Orientalism Vivek Chibber; 4. Culture and imperialism: errors of a syllabus Seamus Deane; 5. Exile as a political aesthetic Keya Ganguly; 6. Said and the 'worlding' of nineteenth-century fiction Lauren M. E. Goodlad; 7. Said and political theory Jeanne Morefield; 8. Said, postcolonial studies and world literature Joe Cleary; 9. Postcolonial and transnational modernism Dougal McNeill; 10. Political predicaments of exile Joan Cocks; 11. Orientalism today Saree Makdisi; 12. Political economy and the Iraq War: Said and Arrighi Robert Spencer.
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Cambridge University Press Caribbean Literature in Transition 19702020
Book SynopsisThe period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region''s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.Trade Review'Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 will remain a rich source for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars within Caribbean studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and performance studies who are interested in the political, cultural, and social life of the literary imagination … this volume functions as a necessary reflection on some of the major developments in Caribbean literary production over the past fifty years.' Jovante Anderson, Journal of West Indian Literature'The new and timely perspectives on migration, gender, and the environment, amongst other topics, enable this series to bring attention to an incredibly diverse canon of writers, literary forms, and historical contexts. In doing so, the volumes invite readers to revisit established figures - with Walcott and Naipaul still looming large - whilst also re-examining Caribbean literary history to include a corpus of voices that are not necessarily anglophone or male-centric. For this reason, the series deserves to lay the foundations of new critical explorations into the heterogeneity and global scope of Caribbean creativity from its roots in the colonial past through to its many fluid and fragmentary strands in the present.' Matthew Whittle, Journal of Postcolonial WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction. Caribbean Assemblages: 1970s-2020 Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields; 2. Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan; 3. Carnival, Calypso, and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall; 4. Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970-2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise Decaires Narain; 5. Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell; 6. Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks; 7. Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani; 8. Drama and Performance Justine Mcconnell; 9. Here are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller; 10. 'Let every child run wild': Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children's and Young Adult Fiction Aisha Takiyah Spencer; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 11. Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A. James Alexander; 12. Writing of and for a Revolution Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir; 12. Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly Baker Josephs; 13. Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals, and New Writing Ifeona Fulani; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 14. The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh; 15. Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A. Isaacs; 16. The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; 17. The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair; 18. Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A. Page; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 19. Visuality in Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture Marta Fernández Campa; 20. From Counter-Textuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor; 21. Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens; 22. Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings; 23. Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present, and Future Alison Donnell; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
Book SynopsisThe impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic ''disease of empire'' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell''s study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors use the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine.Table of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and acute malaria in transatlantic fiction: Charles Dickens and Henry James; 2. Malaria and the imperial romance: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; 3. Malarial feminisms: Olive Schreiner and the allegories of chronic disease; 4. The boy doctor of empire: malaria and mobility in Rudyard Kipling's Kim; 5. Rewriting the bite: the Calcutta chromosome, mosquitoes, and global health politics; Coda: towards a postcolonial health humanities; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I, ''Departures'', addresses key theoretical issues, topics, and themes. Part II, ''Performances'', examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III, ''Peripheries'' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.Table of Contents1. Towards a genealogy of postcolonial travel writing: an introduction Robert Clarke; Part I. Departures: 2. Postcolonial travel writing and postcolonial theory Justin D. Edwards; 3. Walk this way: postcolonial travel writing of the environment Jill Didur; 4. History, memory, and trauma in postcolonial travel writing Robert Clarke; Part II. Performances: 5. Diasporic 'returnees' and imagined homelands Srilata Ravi; 6. Diplomats as postcolonial travellers Eva-Marie Kröller; 7. The metropolitan journeys of Francophone postcolonial travellers Charles Forsdick; 8. African American travel writing Tim Youngs; 9. Seeking the sacred in postcolonial travel writing Asha Sen; 10. Contemporary postcolonial journeys on the trails of colonial travellers Christopher Keirstead; Part III. Peripheries: 11. Postcolonial travel journalism and the new media Brian Creech; 12. Travel magazines and settler (post)colonialism Anna Johnston; 13. Refugee and asylum seeker narratives as travel writing April Shemak; 14. Travellers in postcolonial fiction Stephen M. Levin; 15. Afterword Mary Louise Pratt.
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University of Alberta Press Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism,
Book SynopsisLeaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction’s unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.Trade ReviewAaron Kreuter incorporates a wide range of scholarly work and historically contextualizes the spaces under discussion. Leaving Other People Alone is an important book. Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignLeaving Other People Alone, is without a doubt, the most morally imaginative and critically compelling exploration of the Jewish literary soul to come along in many years. Through eloquent and genuinely exciting close readings, Kreuter offers brilliant new approaches to considering indigeneity, diasporic identities and related forms of conflicted belonging. His highly original formulation of “diasporic heteroglossia,” a bold conceptual approach to the ethics of repudiating territorialism, offers the kind of rare paradigm that truly transforms the conversation and will likely provoke and inspire scholars in Jewish Studies and well beyond for years to come. Ranen Omer-Sherman, author of Amos Oz: Legacy of a WriterOne of the key questions Aaron Krueter asks in Leaving Other People Alone is what the books and authors studied reveal about the relationship between the Jewish diaspora, Israel, Zionism, and the ethical potential of diaspora. Isabelle Hesse, University of SydneyTable of Contentsix Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Playing Jewish Geography 1 | Philip Goes to Israel 27 Jewish Justice, Diasporism, Palestinian Voices, and Zionist Self-Censorship in Operation Shylock 2 | Herzl Meets Uris 77 Altneuland and Exodus in Diasporic Comparison 3 | Arab Jews, Polycentric Diasporas, Porous Borders 131 Israel/Palestine in the Short Fiction of Ayelet Tsabari 4 | “The Jewish Semitone” 189 Zionism and the Soviet Jewish Diaspora in The Betrayers Conclusion 237 Diasporic Heteroglossia, Second Cousins, Learning to Be Each Other’s Guests Notes 243 Works Cited 277 Index 293
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Oratia Media From Silence to Voice
Book SynopsisBefore the 1970s, Maori existed in New Zealand literature as figures created by Pakeha writers. The Maori renaissance of the 1970s changed all that. Fiction writers led by Ihimaera and Grace challenged earlier stereotypes and inherited literary forms, creating a new body of writing that has redefined the Maori in literature. Until now no single comprehensive critical work has followed this evolution. Paola Della Valle''s landmark book sets that to right. From Silence to Voice portrays the early silence'' of Maori in New Zealand literature -- characterised in caricature by colonial writers, then in increasingly sympathetic portraits from the likes of Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame and Noel Hilliard -- through to the new and challenging works presented by Maori writers themselves. In an academically brilliant yet easily read analysis, Della Valle also stresses important links with the literature and culture of Italy.
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Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd Ruth Prawer Jhabvala'S Novels Woman Amidst Snares
Book SynopsisPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Cultural Backgrounds vis- -vis Feminine Sensibility; 3. Early Phase: The Indian Women; 4. Middle Phase: The Western Women in Love with India and Indians; 5. Final Phase: Women in the Cross-cultural Amalgam of the American Milieu; 6. Summing-Up; Select Bibliography
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Prestige Books Arundhuti Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary
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Oxford University Press Commonwealth of Letters
Book SynopsisCommonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature after the war. How did some of modernism''s leading figures of the 1930s--such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender--come to admire late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Similarly, why did late colonial and early postcolonial writers--including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Claude McKay, and Ngugi wa Thiong''o--actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? Peter Kalliney''s original and extensive archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to treat one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antTrade ReviewIt is the mapping of the literary networks, rivalries, allegiances and collaborations that marks Kalliney's book out as an important contribution in this turn of postcolonial studies to interaction with modernist periodicity and aesthetics ... Kalliney offers a truly expansive study of the importance of migration in the developmental history of modernism. * Robert McLaughlan and Neelam Srivastava, Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Commonwealth of Letters is an original and revisionist account of the historical encounter between the writers and institutions of English modernism and late colonial intellectuals, informed by solid archival research and refreshing new readings of the postcolonial canon, and keenly attuned to the complex history of cultural exchanges across the Atlantic. * Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste *For too long, modernist autonomy and postcolonial politics were thought to be antithetical. This book's splendid research deals this dichotomy a convincing blow. With illuminating insights into crossracial networks in radio, publishing, and other cultural institutions, Kalliney brilliantly shows how modernism enriched African and Caribbean literatures and was itself sustained by them. * Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics *A fascinating study which explores how modernist ideas influenced a generation of black and white writers-often working sideby-side-and created international networks of affiliation which rise up above race or geography. An illuminating and convincing examination of Anglophone literary history in the second half of the twentieth century. * Caryl Phillips, author of Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 *This densely argued study covers a lot of ground, from literary modernism to postcolonial Anglophone literature from the West Indies and Afria. The book's bibloiography testifies to Kalliney's prodigious research." -M.S. Vogeler, emerita, California State University, Fullerton, CHOICEKalliney's argument is extensive, meticulously researched, and compellingly revisionist... Kalliney provides a startling and thorough reimagining of the complex lines of aesthetic, philosophic, and institutional affiliation between metropolitan and colonial authors in the period 1930-70. * Novel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions ; 1. Modernist Networks and Late Colonial Intellectual ; 2. Race and Modernist Anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound ; 3. For Continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o ; 4. Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors ; 5. Developing Fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber ; 6. Metropolitan Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African Writers Series ; 7. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual ; Conclusion ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Postcolonial Ecologies
Book SynopsisThis is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies. By examining African, Caribbean, Pacific Island and South Asian literatures and how they depict the relationship between humans and nature, this book makes a compelling argument for a more global approach to thinking through our current environmental crisis. Turning to the contemporary production of postcolonial novelists and poets, this collection poses the literary imagination as a crucial to imagining what Eduoard Glissant calls the aesthetics of the earth. The collection is organized around thematic concerns such as the relationship between culture and cultivation, arboriculture and deforestation, the lives of animals, and the relationship between the military and the tourist industry. The scholars collected here are at the forefront of the emergent field of postcolonial ecocriticism and this book will make a remarkable contribution to rethinking the environment andTrade Reviewa vital contribution to postcolonial ecocriticism. * Sharae Deckard, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS OF THE EARTH; ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY & GEORGE HANDLEY; I.CULTIVATING PLACE; JILL DIDUR; LEGRACE BENSON; ELAINE SAVORY; II. FOREST FICTIONS; LIZABETH PARAVISINI GEBERT; ALEJO CARPENTIER'S THE LOST STEPS; GEORGE B. HANDLEY; READING THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL IN MAHASWETA DEVI'S "DHOWLI"; JENNIFER WENZEL; III. THE LIVES OF (NONHUMAN) ANIMALS; ROB NIXON; JONATHAN STEINWAND; ALLISON CARRUTH; PABLO MUKHERJEE; IV. MILITOURISM; ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY; KANAKA MAOLI AND MA'OHI WRITINGS FOR KAHO'OLAWE AND MORUROA; DINA EL DESSOUKY; DISASTER, ECOLOGY, AND POST-TSUNAMI TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKA; ANTHONY CARRIGAN; BYRON CAMINERO-SANTANGELO
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, ''The Imperial Past'', ''The Colonial Present'', ''Theory and Practice'', ''Across the Disciplines'', and ''Across the World''. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past, in its multiple manifestations, and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested Trade ReviewThe book is an important update on the current state of discussion in the field. * Dobrota Pucherova, Journal of Postcolonial Writing *the book is bound to inspire postcolonial scholars to address in creative ways some of the important questions that face us now. * Christine Lorre-Johnston, Commonwealth Essays and Studies *Table of ContentsSECTION ONE: THE IMPERIAL PAST; SECTION TWO: THE COLONIAL PRESENT; SECTION THREE: THEORY AND PRACTICE; SECTION FOUR: ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES; SECTION FIVE: ACROSS THE WORLD
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Vanderbilt University Press The Inverted Conquest The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity''s alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as ''cli-fi'', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and ''new'' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the Anthropocene: catastrophe, extinction, ''fossil capital'', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literature might yet help us imagine a better world.Trade Review'Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction: With or Without Us: Literature and the Anthropocene John Parham; Prologue: Earth, Anthropocene, Literary Form; 1. Earth Laura Dassow Walls; 2.Data/Anecdote Sean Cubitt; Part I. Anthropocene Form: 3. Poetry Mandy Bloomfield; 4. The Novel Astrid Bracke; 5. Popular Fiction Saba Pirzadeh; 6. The Essay Byron Caminero-Santangelo; 7. Theatre and Performance Sabine Wilke; 8. Interspecies Design Stanislav Roudavski; 9. Digital Games Alenda Y. Chang; Part II. Anthropocene Themes: 10. Catastrophe David Higgins and Tess Somervell; 11. Animals Eileen Crist; 12. Humans Hannes Bergthaller; 13. Fossil Fuel Sam Solnick; 14. Warming Andreas Malm; 15. Ethics Zainor Izat Zainal; 16. Interspecies Heather Alberro; 17. Deep Time Visible Pippa Marland.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Radical Elegies
Trade ReviewA book that focusses on the precarity of grief work in the lives of marginalised peoples. Read this to learn about the elegiac work of women of colour, trans* writers, and Two-Spirit writers. * Susan Rudy, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction—Elegy: Binaries and Hierarchies Chapter 1: Intellectual Feats and Ornate Absences: Receptions and Response to Elegies by Black American Women Poets Chapter 2: ‘White Ways are the Way of Death’: Elegies for Racial Injustice Chapter 3: Abstracted Grief, Precarious Grief: Rethinking Elegy via Trans* and Two-Spirit Necropoetics Coda: Where do we Go From Here Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC PostMillennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English
Book SynopsisExploring expressions of Indianness' buried within and scattered across post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, this book asks questions around what it means to belong' to an India of now' and what it might mean to belong to multiple Indias of the (near) future.With dystopia, near-future, apocalyptic Indias and fantastical metropolises all imagined across this body of writing, Post-Millennial Indian Speculative Fiction in English traces economic, social and political transformations in post-2000 New India' across these various narratives. Drawing on established notions of the speculative, Dawson Varughese argues for a recognized, post-millennial canon of Indian speculative writing in English which moves beyond Western-centric frames of reference, centring instead on Indian sensibilities, expressions of belonging to India and speculative Indian' futures.Organized around key tropes and characteristics of post-millennial Indian speculat
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Postcolonial Historical Materialism
Book SynopsisFilippo Menozzi is Reader in Postcolonial Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
Book SynopsisA diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners share their thoughts and experiences of how to approach gender nonconformity creatively and ethically, including from a decolonial perspective. While substantial work has addressed the ethics and practicalities of working with trans and gender-nonconforming participants in social science research, approaches to gender nonconformity in arts and humanities research, teaching and practice still remain underexplored. Here, contributors share their thoughts and experience on topics including centring trans people and people of colour in fan adaptations of Les Misérables; moving beyond medicalised approaches to trans history; responding to the early modern history of gender nonconformity through poetic-performative closet dramas; and using trans history to decolonise history teaching. The editors' draw out the book's practical and theoretical implications, reflecting on what it means for marginalise
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Postcolonial Ecopoetics
Book SynopsisExamining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, this book maps an ecopoetics of vulnerability and resilience. While environmental fiction has been widely studied, ecopoetry has not received the same level of attention. This book studies the work of over 50 poets from the Global South and the formerly colonized, including John Kinsella, Tanure Ojaide, Linda Hogan, Kofi Awonoor, Okot p'Bitek, Ben Okri, and Sherwin Bitsui. It traces an ecological consciousness that cuts across human and nonhuman, living and non-living domains. It is interested in the making, unmaking and remaking of worlds and meanings in the age of cataclysmic climate shifts, while aware of the histories that fashioned the planet in unjust and unequal ways, and to which the poets bear witness, as well as propose alternative ways of seeing and meaning-making.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) J. M. Coetzee and Christianity
Book SynopsisAlicia Broggi is a freelance writer who earned her doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fanon iek and the Violence of Resistance
Book SynopsisZahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA and Editor of The Comparatist. His recent books include The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment (Bloomsbury, 2024); Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality, Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (Bloomsbury 2021) and Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-Racist Future (Bloomsbury, 2020).Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria
Book SynopsisVered Sakal is the Bertram and Gladys Aaron Professor of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University, USA. Her fields of research are religious studies, modern Jewish thought, liberal theory and subaltern studies.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mapping World Literature International Canonization and Transnational Literatures Continuum Literary Studies
Book SynopsisMads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor with Special Responsibilities in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.Trade Review"Rosendahl Thomsen's book offers us, for the first time, a both comprehensive and systematic overview of the history, and of the different phenomena and the semantic layers of ‘World Literature' today. This would already make his work truly important. But Thomsen goes one decisive step further: he not only points to the traumatic conditions that, in addition to the process of 'globalization', have permeated and founded the experience of 'World Literature'; he also proposes a new concept of literary 'constellations' that has the capacity to trigger and to orient future empirical research. Altogether, this is an amazing début by a young Danish scholar within the English-speaking scene of Literary Criticism and Literary Theory."Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University, USA"This wide-ranging, learned, and ambitious study makes an important contribution to current debates on the concept of world literature. Thomsen helps us better understand the formation and circulation of literature in a globalizing world, through his compelling concept of literary constellations that link works at a level between the individual and the national. Set within a comprehensive and nuanced view of existing scholarship, and illuminated with an impressive variety of literary examples, Thomsen's study is sure to have wide appeal both to students and teachers of comparative and world literature. It will be a necessary addition to every university library and to the personal library of everyone interested in world literature - and in the creation of contemporary literature generally."Professor David Damrosch, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USAMention -Chronicle of Higher Education, December 19, 2008Mention -Book News, February 2009"One urgent literary debate of the first decade of the 21st century has been that surrounding "world literature": How is it to be defined and constituted? What will be its inevitably changing canon? What modes of interpretation are most appropriate to it? Thomsen (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark) discusses the "contested paradigms" that structure this debate within various literary disciplines. For example, scholars of comparative literature have been seeking to shed its Eurocentrism and rejuvenate it without turning their backs the achievements of Western writers; those interested in postcolonial literature have had to confront the dilemma of its status as a transnational migrant literature more dependent on the major languages of Europe than on the national literatures of former colonies. Drawing on the work of David Damrosch (What Is World Literature?, 2003), important essays and books by Franco Moretti and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Christopher Prendergast's edited volume Debating World Literature (2004) and informed by changes in media and culture, this volume ingeniously links national and transnational literatures and global culture while assembling a useful list of formal and thematic elements that will lead readers to engage with old and new texts in new constellations and ways. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."K. Tölölyan, CHOICE, April 2009"One urgent literary debate of the first decade of the 21st century has been that surrounding "world literature": How is it to be defined and constituted? What will be its inevitably changing canon? What modes of interpretation are most appropriate to it? Thomsen (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark) discusses the "contested paradigms" that structure this debate within various literary disciplines. For example, scholars of comparative literature have been seeking to shed its Eurocentrism and rejuvenate it without turning their backs the achievements of Western writers; those interested in postcolonial literature have had to confront the dilemma of its status as a transnational migrant literature more dependent on the major languages of Europe than on the national literatures of former colonies. Drawing on the work of David Damrosch (What Is World Literature?, 2003), important essays and books by Franco Moretti and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Christopher Prendergast's edited volume Debating World Literature (2004) and informed by changes in media and culture, this volume ingeniously links national and transnational literatures and global culture while assembling a useful list of formal and thematic elements that will lead readers to engage with old and new texts in new constellations and ways. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - K. Tölölyan, CHOICE, April 2009"Rosendahl Thomsen's Mapping World Literature is an important contribution to our process of remapping... Thomsen's map has room for "major" and "minor" literatures alike and develops new coordinates that other worldly mapmakers will want to employ." David Damrosch, Comparative Literature Studies'Mapping World Literature provides a particularly innovative approach to the field...[Thomsen's] concept of the ‘constellation' provides a model of reading that permits proximity to individual texts, whilst ensuring acknowledgement of the challenges of the potentially global scale of world literature...' -- Charles ForsdickReviewed in Routledge ABES... wide-ranging and readable, and will undoubtedly be of value as a starting point for scholars interested in the field. Thomsen's underlying thinking is progressive and pragmatic, leading to ideas which highlight the substantial potential of a reconfigured field of world literary studies. -- Forum for Modern Language Studies"Thomsen's value is to inspire thought about how literature is taught in relation to departments which owe an allegiance to a national literature, and to think about the status of 'world literature." Jeremy Tambling, MLR 104.3 2009"In this important book, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen innovatively applies the concept of literary constellations to trace revealing patterns within world literature, with special relevance to present-day cultural globalization. ... Overall, the book is thoroughly thought-provoking in its international perspective on literature, also reflected in the impressive range of its bibliography and index, while the author's emphasis on the construction of a methology opens up promising avenues for future research." Natasha Grigorian, Journal of European Studies"Thomsen's book methodically reviews the lineage of World Literature as both a concept and label and succeeds in being detailed without becoming hindered by the myriad dichotomies which typify the term. The scope of this undertaking is ambitious and the result is an opportunity for scholars of comparative literature to consider new types of literary and cultural constellations encompassing national, tranlational and global movements." Mark Sullivan, The Comparatist"Mads Rosendahl Thomsen's book is an impressive survey of the growth of a new field of study, known as world literature. He takes as his starting point the impossibility of ever comprehending the whole of world literature, and sets out instead to trace paths through the complex web of global writing. The book is divided intelligently into four chapters, each of which surveys the field from a particular perspective."Susan Bassnett, English StudiesReviewed in English Studies, Vol. 91, no. 5, (Netherlands) ‘A contribution to world literature'"This volume ingeniously links national and transnational literatures and global culture while assembling a useful list of formal and thematic elements that will lead readers to engage with old and new texts in new constellations and ways." - Choice * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. World Literature: History, concept, paradigm; 2. Shifting focal points in the international canon; 3. Migrant writers and cosmopolitan culture; 4. Ethics and aesthetics in traumatic literature; Conclusion: Constellations as facts and experiments; Notes; References; Appendix: World Literature by Georg Brandes; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Hanif Kureishi Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Book SynopsisSusan Alice Fischer is Professor of English at Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York, USA. She is Editor of The Literary London Journal and Co-Editor of Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education.Trade ReviewThis collection will be valuable to researchers and students of contemporary British literature and British Asian cultural production. The new interview with Kureishi offers a blend of funny, laconic, unpretentious, and politically serious observations from the man himself, while many of the academic essays will interest Kureishi scholars because of their concern with the writer’s more recent and/or insufficiently discussed work. * Ariel: A Review of International English Literature *Table of ContentsForeword - Roger Michell Acknowledgements Contributors Timeline Introduction - Susan Alice Fischer, The City University of New York 1. ‘“I Believe My Eyes”: The Transformative Cinema of Hanif Kureishi’ - Deanna Kamiel, The New School 2. ‘Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London: Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid - Peter Hitchcock, The City University of New York 3. ‘“The Suburbs That Did It’: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Metropolitan Multicultural Fiction” - Ryan Trimm, University of Rhode Island 4. ‘Hanif Kureishi’s “Better Philosophy”: From The Black Album to My Son the Fanatic’ - Susan Alice Fischer, The City University of New York 5. ‘The Enigma of Abandonment: Re-thinking Hanif Kureishi’s Importance for Multiculturalism’ - Michael Perfect, Independent 6. ‘The Parallax of Ageing: Hanif Kureishi’s The Body’ - Jago Morrison, Brunel University 7. ‘The Other Kureishi: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Something to Tell You’ - Geoff Boucher, Deakin University 8. ‘The Last Word on Hanif Kureishi’ - Susie Thomas, Independent Interview: ‘A very serious business’: Hanif Kureishi in Conversation with Susan Alice Fischer Interview: ‘An extraordinary encounter’: Stephen Frears in Conversation with Susan Alice Fischer and Deanna Kamiel Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonalds Science Fiction
Book SynopsisJerome Winter is Full-Time Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.
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Academica Press Feminist Fiction and the Indian Partition of
Book SynopsisThe Partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947 unleashed unprecedented violence. In Feminist Fiction and the Indian Partition of 1947, Indian scholar Priyanka Gupta explores how women were doubly suppressed and victimized before and after the partition. The violence, and the displacement of large populations, made this historical episode of separation more and more significant for women. Novels set during the Partition offer unique viewpoints and perspectives that have not previously been explored.
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Academica Press Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English
Book SynopsisThe theory and praxis of ecofeminism has barely been investigated in an Indian context.Ecofeminism is an inclusive theory and provides an intersectional study of feminism, ecocriticism, and literature. Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English unearths the sensibility of Indian women writings through the lens of ecofeminism. This book gives all the required details about ecofeminism, major movements and ecofeminist theories, in both the Indian as well as Western perspectives. It will help the readers understand the discourse of ecofeminism. The reader will get a thorough understanding on how to critically examine an ecofeminist element in a particular text. The book's main objective is to re(store) the cultural heritage of India against its colonial history that had mis(interpreted) the environmental ethics of Indian philosophy, affinity of women with nature and animals. The so-called developmental models of post-modern era will be beneficial only when they will focus on mutual sustainability of man and nature.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisAvant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: ""Concrete Poetics,"" which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; ""Language Writing,"" which challenges the interconnection between words and things; ""Identity Writing,"" which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and ""Copyleft Poetics,"" which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge.Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature - and their creators - that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.Trade ReviewThis collection of academic essays and creative pieces takes an enthusiastic, engaged attitude to the unrolling of Canadian literature, starting with an intelligent introduction by editors Gregory Betts and Christian Bök [...] -- Derek Webster -- Canadian Notes and Queries, 2018Table of Contents List of Figures I INTRODUCTION 1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada II PROLOGUE 2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective 3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry III THE CENTENNIAL 4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers 5 Stephen Cain—""A Vision in the UofT Stacks"": bpNichol in the Library IV CONCRETE POLITICS 6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts 7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos 8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart 9 Kelly Mark—National and Time 10 Kaie Kellough—Continents V LANGUAGE WRITING 11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context 12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism 13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill 14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (""Anaximenes"") 15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You) VI IDENTITY WRITING 16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? 17 Sonnet L'Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds 18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories 19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel 20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind VII COPYLEFT POLITICS 21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record 22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing 23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada 24 Moez Surani—1988 25 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically VIII EPILOGUE 26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit 27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be Drawn IX AFTER MATTER Notes and Acknowledgements Bibliography About the Authors Index
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James Currey ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction: African Literature Today
Book SynopsisPAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent, and abroad. Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry, plays and films. Controversies over the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer (LGBTIQ) communities in Africa, as elsewhere, continue inthe context of criminalization and/or intimidation of these groups. Residual colonial moralizing and contemporary western identity norms and politics vie with longstanding polyvalent indigenous sexual expression. In addition to traditional media, the new social media have gained importance, both as sources of information exchange and as sites of virtual construction of gender identities. As with many such contentious issues, the variety of responses to the"state of the question" is strikingly visible across the continent. In this issue of ALT, guest editor John Hawley has sampled the ongoing conversations, in both African writing and in the analysis of contemporary African cinema,to show how queer studies can break with old concepts and theories and point the way to new gender perspectives on literary and cinematic output. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles anda Literary Supplement. Guest Editor: John C. Hawley is Professor in the Department of English, Santa Clara University Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Reviews Editor: Obi NwakanmaTable of ContentsEditorial Article. Introduction: Desiring Africans - John C. Hawley Visual Activism: A Look at the Documentary Born This Way - Unoma Azuah African Queer, African Digital - Naminata Diabate To Revolutionary-type Love - An Interview with Kawira Mwirichia, Neo Musangi, Mal Muga, Awuor Onyango, Faith Wanjala & Wawira Njeru - Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri Liminal Spaces & Conflicts of Culture in South African Queer Films: Inxeba[The Wound] - Grant Andrews Queer Africa, Capitalism & the Digital Age - Shola Adenekan The City as a Metaphor of Safe Queer Experimentation in Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree"' & Beatrice Lamwaka's "Pillar of Love" - Edgar Fred Nabutanyi Homosexuality & the Postcolonial Idea: Notes from Kabelo Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams - Ives S. Loukson A Warm, Woolly Silence: Rethinking Silence through to Molefe's "Lower Main" & Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree" - Robert LaRue Breaking/Voicing the Silence: Diriye Osman's Fairy Tales for Lost Children - Asuncion Aragon Reading for Ruptures: HIV & AIDS, Sexuality & Silencing in Zoe Wicomb's "Search of Tommie" - Lizzy Attree Queer Temporalities & Epistemologies of Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows & Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees - Kerry Manzo Dilemma of an African Woman Faced with Bisexuality: A Reading of Armand Meula's Coq mâle coq femelle - Stella Onome Omonigho FEATURED ARTICLES African Oral Literature & the Environment - Ndubuisi Osuagwu From the Street to the World of Art: Writing Women's Liberation in Nawal El Saadawi's - Simone James Alexander LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Pregnancy in the Time of Ebola [short story] - M'Bha Kamara Okonkwo's Revenge [short story] - Pede Hollist Guilt [short story] - Chioma Toni-Duruaku Tribute to Ben Obumselu (1930-2017): Pioneering African Literary Critic - Isidore Diala REVIEWS [Edited by Obi Nwakanma]
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James Currey ALT 38 Environmental Transformations: African Literature Today
Book SynopsisFOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Investigates what literary strategies African writers adopt to convey the impact of climate transformation and environmental change. This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literary criticism addresses the implications of global environmental transformations. Does environmentalist literature offer new possibilities for critical thinking about the future? What constitutes environmentalist fiction and poetry? What kind of texts, themes and topics does climate writing include? Does any text in which the environment features become available to environmentalist criticism? In their engagement with the diverse genres, themes and frameworks through which contemporary African writers address topics including urbanisation, cross-species communication, nature and climate change, contributors to this special issue help to define African environmental writing. They look at the literary strategies adopted by creative writers to convey the impact of environmental transformationin narratives that are historically informed by a century of colonialism, nationalist political activism, urbanisation and postcolonial migration. How does environmental literature intervene in these histories? Can creative writers, with their powerfully post-human and cross-species imaginations, carry out the ethical work demanded by contemporary climate science? From Tanure Ojaide's and Helon Habila's attention to environmental decimation in the Niger Delta through to Nnedi Okorafor's and Kofi Anyidoho's imaginative cross-species encounters, the special issue asks how literature mediates the specificities of climate change in an era of global capitalism and technological transformation, and what the limits of creative writing and literary criticism are as tools for discussing environmental issues. Guest Editors: Cajetan Iheka (Associate Professor of English, Yale University) and Stephanie Newell (Professor of English, Yale University) Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint) Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma (Fellow, Department of English University of Central Florida)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature - Cajetan Iheka Introduction: Itineraries of African Ecocriticism & Environmental Transformations in African Literature - Stephanie Newell Literary Totemism & its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho's Literary Bees - Jerome Masamaka Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa's David Mogo Godhunter & "The End of the World as We Know It" - Louise Green Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a "Modernising" City in Nigerian Poetry - Sule Emmanuel Egya Poetic Style & Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo's Poems - Syned Mthatiwa Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary's Yellow Yellow - Sandra C. Nwokocha Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism & the Politics of Form - Katherine E. Hummel "It is the Writer's Place to Stand with the Oppressed": Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong's Blot on the Landscape & The Tears of the Earth - Eunice Ngongkum Black Atlantic Futurism & Toxic Discourses in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix: An Ecocritical Reading - Michelle Clarke Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler & Nnedi Okorafor - James McCorkle Interview with Kenyan Novelist, Yvonne Owuor - Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Poems & Short Stories TRIBUTE Pa Gabriel Okara (1918 - 2019) - An African Literary Colossus on Ancestral Journey - Psalms E. Chinaka REVIEWS edited by Obi Nwakanma
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Drugs, Violence and Latin America: Global
Book SynopsisThis book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. Trade Review“Patteson’s work makes a highly original and suggestive contribution to the study of drugs, intoxication, addiction and trafficking in Latin America. In particular, his work is a much-needed answer to the critical current, exemplified by Osvaldo Zavala and others, that is quick to discount works that supposedly do little to oppose narco-culture. ... it will certainly be required reading for anyone studying drugs, intoxication or drug trafficking going forward.” (Brandon P. Bisbey, Chasqui, Vol. 51 (1), May, 2022) Table of Contents1. Introduction2. A Dialectics of Intoxication3. Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonialist Shadow4.From Flower Power to Les fleurs du mal: la Onda literaria5. High Crimes: Élmer Mendoza’s “Zurdo” Mendieta Series and the Psychotropic Economy6. Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence Through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la Madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen7. Escape Velocity: Narcossism, Contagion, and Consumption in Julián Herbert8. Conclusion
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Brill Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones: En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques
Book SynopsisDans Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones, Michał Obszyński étudie les enjeux esthétiques et idéologiques qui sous-tendent les principaux textes manifestaires et programmatiques publiés aux Caraïbes francophones depuis le début du XXe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. In Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophone, Michał Obszyński examines the aesthetic and ideological issues underlying the main manifestoes and programmatic texts published in the French speaking Caribbean since the early twentieth century to the present.Trade Review"Il est difficile de rendre justice, en quelques pages, à un ouvrage si complet et riche, surtout en ce qui concerne le choix judicieux et innovateur du corpus,qui n’est pas seulement focalisé sur les textes le plus célèbres, mais qui déniche de petites perles manifestaires de la Caraïbe, comme par exemple l’Enracinerrance (2001) de Jean‑Claude Charles. Un autre aspect à retenir concerne les analyses de Michał Obszyński, qui s’attachent aux moindres détails et qui font surtout preuve d’une grande habilité comparative." - Sara del Rossi, in: Romanica Silesiana (2016) "On recommandera l’ouvrage de M. Obszyński pour son double intérêt : par sa précision et son organisation à la fois chronologique et géographique, il constitue un manuel clair, pratique et accessible que l’on consultera avec profit pour ses analyses détaillées des textes théoriques, support fondamental de contextualisation des œuvres littéraires caribéennes. La dimension d’ensemble de l’ouvrage présente d’autre part une réflexion plus globale, à la fois comparatiste et transnationale, sur les littératures francophones caribéennes. L’ouvrage, qui s’achève par une invitation à un dépassement de l’espace dans lequel se circonscrivait l’étude des manifestes, permet enfin une remise en perspective des problématiques esthétiques et politiques des littératures francophones caribéennes au sein de la République mondiale des lettres." - Marine Cellier, « Un siècle de manifestes : projets littéraires & enjeux politiques en Caraïbe francophone », in: Acta fabula, vol. 18, n° 7 (Septembre 2017) "Michal Obszyński’s Manifestes et programmes littéraires aux Caraïbes francophones : En/jeux idéologiques et poétiques offers an excellent chronological account and analysis of texts whose overt intention has been to seek “affirmation and worldly respect” [...] by putting forth theories of aesthetics, ethics, and/or identity. Obszyński emphasizes the constant push and pull between the need for European affirmation, on one hand, and the desire to better articulate an ethos that expresses itself aesthetically, and that rids itself of the need for European recognition, on the other. The major contributions of Obszyński’s study are: 1) its inventory and analysis of scholarly production in French from university milieus in the Caribbean, France, and Québec, work that is often ignored by scholars working in the English-based academy; 2) its establishment of criteria to assess the rhetorical devices through which a text asserts an ethical agenda; and 3) its consideration of more contemporary texts, such as the two iterations of Pour une littérature-monde (2007), within a longer French (and in-French but non-Hexagone) tradition of the literary manifesto." - Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, in: Journal of Haitian StudiesTable of ContentsRemerciements Introduction Chapitre I : L’écrit manifestaire : théorie et axes d'analyse La généalogie du manifeste littéraire Le manifeste littéraire « canonique » Les « quasi-manifestes » L’impact de la réception Les axes d’analyse Le manifeste en tant que discours persuasif Le texte manifestaire et son contexte social La question du champ littéraire L’internationalisation du champ littéraire Le manifeste littéraire et l’engagement Chapitre II : De l’assimilation culturelle à la prise de conscience identitaire Vers l’affirmation d’un « monde noir » Domaine haïtien Pour une légitimité politico-littéraire : un discours de l’entre-deux Défense de la nation et de la race Entre la francophilie et l’art pur : la génération de La Ronde (1898-1902) Un manifeste de la modernité : La Revue indigène (1927-1928) Le programme de l’indigénisme haïtien : Ainsi parla l’oncle (1928) de Jean Price-Mars Le manifeste du noirisme haïtien : Les Griot s (1938) Vers une solidarité supranationale : Bois-d’ébène (1945) de Jacques Roumain Le surréalisme haïtien : l’art et la révolution Domaine franco-antillais Sous le signe de l’assimilation René Maran et La Préface de Batouala (1921) Pour une solidarité des Noirs : La Revue du monde noir (1931-1932) Un manifeste antibourgeois : Légitime défense (1932) Les premières conceptions de la négritude : L’Étudiant noir (1935) Une révolution poétique : Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939) d’Aimé Césaire Vers une pensée archipélique : Tropiques (1941-1945) La poésie au service du discours manifestaire : « En guise de manifeste littéraire » (1942) d’Aimé Césaire Un « quasi-manifeste » de la négritude : Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française (1948) de Léopold S. Senghor Orphée noir de Jean-Paul Sartre et la critique de la négritude Les apories de la négritude : Peau noire, masques blancs (1952) de Frantz Fanon Chapitre III : Entre l'hybridité et les pièges de l'identité Domaine haïtien Pour l’autonomie de la littérature haïtienne : « Du réalisme merveilleux des Haïtiens » (1956) de Jacques-Stephen Alexis La littérature face à la dictature : Haïti littéraire et le spiralisme Le transit québécois Contre la pureté : Théories caraïbes (1996) de Joël Des Rosiers Échapper au spectre du pays natal : « L’Enracinerrance » (2001) de Jean-Claude Charles Une approche diasporique de l’écriture migrante : Repérages (2001) d’Émile Ollivier Domaine franco-antillais L’antillanité d’Édouard Glissant Une dissidence suspecte : Éloge de la créolité (1989) Vers une pensée relationnelle : Poétique de la relation (1990) et Traité du Tout-monde (1997) d’Édouard Glissant Vers une créolité ouverte : Écrire en pays dominé (1997) de Patrick Chamoiseau Épilogue : les voix franco-caribéennes dans Pour une littérature-monde (2007) Conclusion Bibliographie Abstract Index Table des matières
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Brill Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.Trade Review"As a whole, this volume, which broaches the topic of postcolonial justice from a wide variety of angles, constitutes a valuable contribution to scholarship, although further steps will obviously need to be taken, on a global scale, to counter the countless injustices caused by colonialism, past or present." - Peter O. Stummer, University of Munich, Recherche littéraire, literary research 34, Sumnmer 2018.Table of ContentsCECILE SANDTEN & ANNIKA BAUER: Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis: An Introduction CITIZENSHIP AND (ALTERNATIVE) MARKET ECONOMIES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL METROPOLIS MELISSA KENNEDY: The Economics of Urban Development for the Postcolonial Poor ENDA DUFFY: Post-Coloniality, Poetry, and Debt DAVID TAVARES AND MARC BROSSEAU: Equivocal Identity-Politics in Multi-Cultural London POLITICAL CHANGE AND CONTESTED SPACES IN THE AFRICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN METROPOLIS ANNIKA MCPHERSON: Tracing the Rural in the Urban: Re-Reading Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds MICHAEL WESSELS: The Representation of Place in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels DANYELA DEMIR: ‘Welcome to Johannesburg’: Melancholia and Fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 VERENA JAIN–WARDEN: Angels in South Africa? Queer Urbanity in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America CHRIS DUNTON: The Thrust of the City: Penis Fixation in Jude Dibia’s Blackbird CHIELOZONA EZE: The City, Hyperculturality, and Human Rights in Contemporary African Women’s Writing THE ASIAN AND SOUTH ASIAN METROPOLISES ON THE MOVE BILL ASHCROFT: Utopian Sights: Re-Inventing the Asian Metropolis MALA PANDURANG: A City on the Move: Routing Urban Spaces – Literary and Cinematic Representations of Mumbai’s Lifeline, the ‘Local’ Trains RAJEEV S. PATKE: The Experience of Urban Space in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar R. RAJ RAO: The Metropolis in the Province: Interrogating the New Postcolonial Literature in India ROMAN BARTOSCH: ‘No One Is India’: Literary Renderings of the (Postcolonial) Metropolis in Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha PIA FLORENCE MASURCZAK: The Glocal Metropolis: Tokyo Cancelled, The White Tiger, and Spatial Politics AGNES S.L. LAM: Cosmopolitan Poetry from Asian Cities REFRAMING THE AUSTRALIAN / CANADIAN (SETTLER ) METROPOLIS SUE KOSSEW: City of Words: Haunting Legacies in Gail Jones’s Five Bells MARIJKE DENGER: Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog: History and Identity in the Metropolis of Melbourne FRANK SCHULZE–ENGLER: Indigenous Urbanities: Representations of Cities in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Māori Literature SENSES, SOUNDS, AND LANGUAGES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL METROPOLIs ROLF J. GOEBEL: From Postcoloniality to Global Media Culture: Multimedial Reflections on Metropolitan Space OLIVER LINDNER: Between Ghetto and Utopia: London as a Postcolonial Metropolis in Recent British Music Videos CHRISTIN HOENE: The Sounding City: Soundscapes and Urban Modernity in Amit Chaudhuri’s Fiction ERIC A. ANCHIMBE: Pidgin Goes Public: Urban Institutional Space in Cameroon MICHAEL WESTPHAL: Emancipation from and Re-Invention of the Linguistic Metropolis in a Postcolonial Speech Community
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Brill Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume investigates com-munity in postcolonial language situations, texts, and media. In actual and imagined communities, membership assumes shared features – values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, professional interests and practices. How is membership in such communities constructed, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms have emerged in the wake of globalization, translocation, and digital media? Contributions in linguistic, literary, and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory, and trauma in processes of (un)belonging. One section treats communication and the speech community. Here, linguistic contribu-tions investigate the concept of the native speaker in World Englishes, in socio-cultural communities identified by styles of verbal duelling, in diaspora communities, physical and digital, where identification with formerly stigmatized linguistic codes acquires new currency. Divisions and alignments in digital communities are at stake in postcolonial African countries like Cameroon where identification with ex-colonizer and ex-colonized is a hot issue. Finally, discourse communities also exist in such traditional media as newspapers (e.g., the Indian tabloid in English). In a section devoted to narrative and narration, the focus is on literary perspectives – post-colonial memory, trauma, and identity in Caribbean literary works by David Chariandy and Pauline Melville and in Australian Aboriginal fiction; narratives of banditry in colonial India; xenophobia and urban space in South Africa; human–animal community crossings and anthropomorphism in Life of Pi. A third section, on linguistic crossings in transnational music styles in global and Ugandan music industries, examines language, style, and belonging in music cultures. The volume closes with a controversial debate on the agendas of academic/non-academic and postcolonial/Western communities with regard to homophobia in Jamaican dancehall culture. CONTRIBUTORS Eric A. Anchimbe, Susan Arndt, Roman Bartosch, Carolyn Cooper, Daria Dayter, Dagmar Deuber, Tobias Döring, Stephanie Hackert, Caroline Koegler, Stephan Laqué, Andrea Moll, Susanne Mühleisen, Jochen Petzold, Katja Sarkowsky, Britta Schneider, Anne Schröder, Jude Ssempuuma, Robert JC YoungTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures I: ON COMMUNITY Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN Community and the Common ROBERT JC YOUNG II: COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective STEPHANIE HACKERT Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century DARIA DAYTER Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN & ANNE SCHRÖDER Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community ANDREA MOLL ’Africa is not a Game’: Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online ERIC A. ANCHIMBE The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? DAGMAR DEUBER III: NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India TOBIAS DÖRING Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant KATJA SARKOWSKY Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the ‘New’ South Africa JOCHEN PETZOLD Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence STEPHAN LAQUÉ A ‘furry subjunctive case’ of Empathy: Human–Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism ROMAN BARTOSCH Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville’s Short Story “Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water” SUSAN ARNDT IV: LANGUAGE,STYLE, AND BELONGING INMUSIC CULTURES Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón BRITTA SCHNEIDER Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda JUDE SSEMPUUMA V: COUNTER-ARGUMENT Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation CAROLYN COOPER At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture “Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation” CAROLINE KOEGLER Notes on Contributors Index
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Brill Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Post/Colonial Anglophone World
Book SynopsisThe English-speaking world today is so diverse that readers need a gateway to its many postcolonial narratives and art forms. This collection of essays examines this diver¬sity and what brings so many different cul¬tures together. Whether Indian, Canadian, Australasian or Zimbabwean, the stories dis¬cussed focus on how artists render experi¬ences of separation, belonging, and loss. The histories and transformations postcolonial countries have gone through have given rise to a wide range of myths that retrace their birth, evolution, and decline. Myths have enabled ethnic communities to live together; the first section of this collection dwells on stories, which can be both inclusive and exclusive, under the aegis of ‘nation’. While certain essays revisit and retell the crucial role women have played in mythical texts like the Mahābhārata, others discuss how settler colonies return to and re-appro¬priate a past in order to define themselves in the present. Crises, clashes, and conflicts, which are at the heart of the second section of this book, entail myths of historical and cultural dislocation. They appear as breaks in time that call for reconstruction and redefini¬tion, a chief instance being the trauma of slavery, with its deep geographical and cul¬tural dislocations. However, the crises that have deprived entire communities of their homeland and their identity are followed by moments of remembrance, reconciliation, and rebuilding. As the term ‘postcolonial’ sug¬gests, the formerly colonized people seek to revisit and re-investigate the impact of colo¬nization before committing it to collective memory. In a more specifically literary sec¬tion, texts are read as mythopoeia, fore¬grounding the aesthetic and poetic issues in colonial and postcolonial poems and novels. The texts explored here study in different ways the process of mytho¬logization through images of location and dislocation. The editors of this collection hope that readers worldwide will enjoy reading about the myths that have shaped and continue to shape postcolonial communities and nations. CONTRIBUTORS Elara Bertho, Dúnlaith Bird, Marie–Christine Blin, Jaine Chemmachery, André Dodeman, Biljana Đorić Francuski, Frédéric Dumas, Daniel Karlin, Sabine Lauret–Taft, Anne Le Guellec–Minel, Élodie Raimbault, Winfried Siemerling, Laura Singeot, Françoise Storey, Jeff Storey, Christine VandammeTable of ContentsList of Figures Introduction PART ONE: MYTHS OF NATION-BUILDING Woman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the Mahābhārata and Chitra Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions BILJANA ÐOR IĆ–FRANCUSK I ‘On a road between two cities’: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005) JULIE BELUAU Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstone’s Early Photographs MARIE–CHRIST INE BLIN How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Bird’s Wild West DÚNLAITH BIRD The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and Fiction ANNE LE GUELL EC–MINEL PART TWO: DIS/LOCATIONS: CLASHES AND CONFLICTS Migrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black Atlantic WINFR IED SIEMERLING Reworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe) ELARA BERTHO Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylor’s Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters (1897) JAINE CHEMMACHERY Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator FRÉDÉRIC DUMAS Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick White’s Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer Myth CHRI ST INE VANDAMME PART THREE: IMAGINARY DISLOCATIONS: FROM MYTHOPOEIA TO THE RELOCATION OF MYTH “In Vishnu-land what avatar?” Robert Browning and the Empire of Song DANIEL KARLIN Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide SAB INE LAURET–TAFT Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi FRANÇOISE STOREY & JEFF STOREY Relocating the Mythical Self in Three Māori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera,and the bone people by Keri Hulme LAURA SINGEOT Notes on Contributors and Editors Index
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Brill Postcolonial Past & Present: Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies
Book SynopsisIn Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These ‘makers’ include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces. Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Anne Brewster, Diana Brydon, Meeta Chatterjee—Padmanabhan, Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones, Kay Lawrence, Russell McDougall, Tekura Moeka’a, Tony Simões da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood ConroyTable of ContentsForeword Albert Wendt Illustrations and Appendices Notes on Contributors and Editors Part 1: Collision, Connection, and Change 1 Textiles from the Sea of Islands Sacred Heart Nuns and Craft Advisers in Papua New Guinea and Australia Diana Wood Conroy 2 Reading Across the Pacific, Reorienting “North” Diana Brydon 3 Nationalism from Below Folk Nationalist Formations of Mukunda Das Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay 4 Xavier Herbert’s Enlightenment The Solomon Islands Nightmare, 1928 Russell McDougall 5 Regime Change Literature and Transitional Justice Tony Simões da Silva Part 2: Case Studies 6 Laughter and the Indigenous Trickster Aesthetics of Marie Munkara’s Every Secret Thing Anne Brewster 7 Claude McKay and the Pestilential City The Metropolis, the Clinic, the Crisis Anne Collett 8 Bodily Cloth The Making Process in Artworks by Elsje van Keppel and Jane Whiteley Kay Lawrence 9 Overseas and Underground Travel and Travellers in Janet Frame’s Fiction Dorothy Jones 10 “Indias of the mind” Maps, Mothers, and Ethnicized Wonder Woman Outfits in Australian–Indian Fiction Meeta Chatterjee–Padmanabhan 11 Singing the Spiral of Time Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela Bill Ashcroft 12 Comparative History in Polynesia Some Challenges of Studying the Past in the Postcolonial Present Teresia Teaiwa and Tekura Moeka‘a Afterword Lydia Wevers
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Brill New Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe
Book SynopsisNew Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe captures the experience in writing of a fast growing number of individuals belonging to migrant communities in Europe. The book follows attempts to transform postcolonial literary studies into a comparative, translingual, and supranational project. Cristián H. Ricci frames Moroccan literature written in European languages within the ampler context of borderland studies. The author addresses the realm of a literature that has been practically absent from the field of postcolonial literary studies (i.e. Neerlandophone or Gay Muslim literature). The book also converses with other minor literatures and theories from Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Asians and Latino/as in the Americas that combine histories of colonization, labor migration, and enforced exile.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Translations Introduction: A Transmodern-Postcolonial Approach to Afro-European Literature 1 Memories of al-Andalus: between “Paterista” and Testimonial Poetry 2 Negotiating Afro-Iberian Identity in Moroccan and Riffian Literature 1 Castilian Language in Morocco: from the Protectorate to the “Return of the Moors” 2 Moroccan Borderland Literature in Castilian 3 Amazigh (Berber)-Catalan Women and the Forging of an Afro-Iberian Identity 3 Marginal Sexualities in/from Morocco and France 1 Salvation Army 2 An Arab Melancholia 4 Writing the Riff (Morocco) from the Netherlands and Belgium 1 Wedding by the Sea: Troublesome Homecoming for Second-generation Migrants 2 Abdullah’s Feet: the Longing for an Imaginary Homeland from Amsterdam 3 Internal and External Borders in Brick Oussaïd’s Mountains Forgotten by God 5 Moroccan Displacements through History in the Narrative of Laila Lalami Conclusion Works Cited Index
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Brill « A ti pa » avec l'antillectuel Léon Damas: Vers une France décoloniale?
Book SynopsisTroisième homme de la négritude, Léon Damas s’alignait sur la Harlem Renaissance et les surréalistes comme Apollinaire et G. Luca pour transmettre son message d’urgence : « a ti pas », la France opère sa mue décoloniale, et c’est l’antillectuel qui, transfuge, traverse les Lignes de couleur, de classe, de genre. The third man of negritude, Léon Damas, aligned himself with the Harlem Renaissance and surrealists to transmit his urgent message: à ti pas, little by little, France was undergoing its decolonial transformation. He claims to be the “Antillectual” who crosses the Lines of language, territory, color, class and gender.Table of ContentsRemerciements Notes Introduction : A ti pa : l’antillectuel Léon-Gontran Damas 1 Damas, hors champ / chant 1 A l’ombre de Frantz Fanon : les maux / mots Damas 2 Christiane Taubira, face à « Marie-t-on » 2 « Locating Damas » 1 L’outre mer G.L.M., un espace à géométrie variable 2 « Kréol », Damas exilé par la créolité 3 « Sur le chemin de Damas » 1 Richard Wright et « Une faim d’égalité » 2 Langston Hughes et les hauntologies du Black Atlantic 3 Claude McKay et « Fifty Shades of Brown » 4 Damas, démineur de Lignes 1 L’année charnière 1956 2 La Ligne cartographique 3 Pur/impur, dé/mobilisé 4 La Ligne communau-taire 5 La Ligne linguistique : Black-Babel 5 Ames-sœurs, frères mal-aimés 1 Apollinaire, l’alcool et autres dessous depuis Black-Label à Mine de riens 2 Luca, le bégaiement, entrave créatrice Conclusion : « Peuple-manifeste » en quête d’une France décoloniale Bibliographie Index
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Brill Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
Book SynopsisAn effective tool for reading postcolonial con/texts, ideology also provides a matrix to grasp the world, enabling collective political action. This interdisciplinary volume reflects that each position is subject to asymmetrical power relations, with critiques of ideological manifestations occurring in intersecting cultural, social, and political configurations.
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Brill Modernity and the Periodical Press: Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avant-Gardes, 1880-1920
Book SynopsisBetween 1880 and 1920, newspapers, magazines, and journals figured as the most important media for the public discussion of current events, as central nodes for the circulation of mass entertainments, and as windows into bustling art scenes. Periodicals thus presented themselves as crucial media for the negotiation and implementation of cultural modernization processes. Modernity and the Periodical Press explores this privileged role of the periodical press and focuses in particular on the often-neglected intersections between mass print culture and the practices of literary and artistic avant-gardes. In doing so, the volume examines a variety of materials that are shaped by the formats and themes of the periodical press, including Modernist little magazines, mass-marketed scrapbooks, advertising campaigns, comics, and more.
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Brill El desafío de la modernidad en la literatura hispanofilipina (1885–1935)
Book SynopsisUn libro que supera los lugares comunes sobre Filipinas para relatar cómo se reflejó el proceso de construcción nacional en su literatura en español entre dos colonizaciones, la española y la estadounidense, décadas después de las emancipaciones latinoamericanas. A book that goes beyond the commonplaces about the Philippines to tell how nation-building struggles were reflected in its Spanish-language literature between two colonizations, Spanish and American, decades after the Latin American emancipations.Table of ContentsSobre los autores VII Introducción: La cultura letrada hispanofilipina y el desafío de la modernidad Rocío Ortuño Casanova y Axel Gasquet Parte I: Políticas del costumbrismo en la literatura filipina 1 Filipinas, a través de la mirada de los costumbristas peninsulares y filipinos Mignette Marcos Garvida 2 El espejo del costumbrismo: costumbre, conocimiento y autonomía en las obras de Pedro Paterno y José Rizal William Arighi 3 El Otro del Otro: los chinos en las novelas de José Rizal como el “Oriente” de las Filipinas Ignacio López-Calvo PARTE II: El papel de la prensa 4 Marcelo H. Del Pilar: periodismo y propaganda en La Solidaridad Eugenio Matibag 5 La Redención del Obrero, Isabelo de los Reyes y la introducción del socialismo en Filipinas Álvaro Jimena 6 “Ábranse paso las letras españolas”: sentimientos literarios de los colaboradores españoles, americanos y filipinos de la revista Día Filipino (1913–1914) Ericson Borre Macaso 7 El Bello Sexo y La Ilustración Española: los primeros periódicos dedicados a las mujeres Cecilia Quirós Cañiza Parte III: Cosmopolitismo 8 Desencuentros con la modernidad: en la temprana literatura hispanofilipina de viajes (1870–1906) Jorge Mojarro 9 La modernidad agónica en los cuentos de Manuel Bernabé Axel Gasquet 10 “El pentagrama ultrajado”: irrupción del Jazz en la cultura hispanofilipina Miguel Ángel Feria Parte IV: La filipinas moderna 11 Max Factor, bermellón en los labios y sangre en las uñas: cine y sufragismo en Enrique K. Laygo Beatriz Álvarez Tardío 12 Mujer modelo y modelos de mujer: el discurso femenino y feminista en la modernidad hispanofilipina Irene Villaescusa Illán 13 La carrera de Cándida de Guillermo Gómez Windham: crónica de la desaparición del mundo hispanofilipino Emmanuelle Sinardet Índice
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Brill Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to demonstrate how the growing awareness of human-caused global warming has begun to permeate literary consciousness, praxis and analysis. The breadth of the volume’s coverage – the diversity of its focal locations, cultures, genres and texts – serves as a salient reminder that, while climate change is global, its impacts vary, effecting peoples from place to place unequally, and often in accordance with their particular historical experience of colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as their ongoing marginalisations. “Demonstrating the urgency of invoking novel epistemological approaches combining the scientific and the imaginative, this book is a “must read” for those concerned about the present and potential impacts of climate change on formerly colonised areas of the world. The comprehensive and illuminating Introduction offers a crucial history and current state of postcolonial ecocriticism as it has been and is addressing climate crises.” - Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong “The broad focus on the polar regions, the Pacific and the Caribbean – with added essays on environmental justice/activism in India and Egypt – opens up rich terrain for examination under the rubric of postcolonial and ecocritical analysis, not only expanding recent studies in this field but also enabling new comparisons and conceptual linkages.” - Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London “The subject is topical and vital and will become even more so as the problem of how to reconcile the demands of climate change with the effects on regions and individual nations already damaged by the economic effects of colonisation and the subsequent inequalities resulting from neo-colonialism continues to grow.” - Gareth Griffiths, Em. Prof. University of Western AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors and Editors Dear Matafele Peinam, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 1 Introduction Climate Change as Critical Reading Practice Russell McDougall, John C. Ryan and Pauline Reynolds 2 “The Imagining of Possibilities” Writers as Activists Geoffrey V. Davis 3 River Writing Culture, Law and Poetics Chris Prentice 4 Which Island, What Home? Plantation Ecologies and Climate Change in Australia and Nauru Paul Sharrad 5 Island Life and Wild Time Crossing into Country in Tim Winton’s Island Home Stephen Harris 6 Islands Within Islands Climate Change and the Deep Time Narratives of the Southern Beech John C. Ryan 7 Refashioning Futures with Sargassum A Caribbean Poetics of Hope Kasia Mika and Sally Stainier 8 “Kāne and Kanaloa Are Coming” Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry and Climate Change Craig Santos Perez 9 Monsoonal Memories and “the Reliable Water” Reading Climate Change in Selected Malaysian Literature Agnes S. K. Yeow 10 Aswan High Dam and Haggag Oddoul’s Stories from Old Nubia Redefining the Line between Immediate Catastrophe and Slow Violence Amany Dahab 11 Caring for the Future Climate Change, Kinship and Inuit Knowledge Renée Hulan 12 Fictional Representations of Antarctic Tourism and Climate Change To the Ends of the World Hanne E.F. Nielsen 13 Ice Islands of the Anthropocene The Cultural Meanings of Antarctic Bergs Elizabeth Leane Index
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