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Book SynopsisThe essays in Europe in Black and White offer new critical perspectives on race, immigration, and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, such as multiculturalism and hybridity, the contributors address a number of issues, including the cartography of postcolonial Europe, its relation to the production of "difference" and "race," and national and identity politics and their dependence on linguistic practices inherited from imperial times. Featuring scholars from a wide variety of nationalities and disciplinary areas, this collection will speak to an equally wide readership.
Table of ContentsThe Culture Wars in Translation – Ella Shohat/Robert Stam Nations Re-Bound: Race and Bio-Politics at E.U. and U.S. Borders – John D. Márquez New Maps of Europe in Some Contemporary ‘Migrant’ Artists and Writers – Francesco Cattani ‘Beware Behalfies!’: Contradictory Affiliations in Salman Rushdie’s
Step Across This Line – Ana Cristina Mendes A Cape Verdian View of Europe: History and Geography Revised in the Writings of G. T. Didial – Ana Salgueiro Rodrigues On the Periphery of the Universal and the Splendour of Eurocentrism – Inocência Mata Opportunities, Politics and Subjectivity in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon’s Non-Governmental Organizations – Susana Durão Technologies of Othering: Black Masculinities in the Carceral Zones of European Whiteness – Uli Linke White Resentment – The Other Side of Belonging – Vron Ware Reverses of Modernity: Postcolonialism and Post-Holocaust – António Sousa Ribeiro White Resentment – The Other Side of Belonging – Vron Ware 'For the Sun May not Mate with the Darkness': The Colonial Legacy of Rider Haggard’s African Romances – Tania Zulli ‘Mestizaje’, ‘mestiçagem’, ‘métissage’: Useful Concepts? – Capucine Boidin Studies in Brown: Seductions and Betrayals of Hybridity in Richard Burton and Gilberto Freyre – Anna Klobucka Old Empires, New Cartographies – Elena Brugioni Spectacles, Lenses, and Magnifying Glasses: Critical Approaches in the Definition of the Canon of African Literatures in the Portuguese Language – Livia Apa Literary Responses in Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Europe: The Literatures of Diaspora in Portugal and Britain – João Cosme Voices in Shades of Grey – Phillip Rothwell
