{"product_id":"fighting-words-fifteen-books-that-shaped-the-postcolonial-world-9781789974225","title":"Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis updated edition of \u003cem\u003eFighting Words\u003c\/em\u003e responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this collection explores the ways in which books have circulated anti-imperial ideas, as they themselves have circulated as objects and commodities within regional, national and transnational networks. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e«The volume remains an excellent source of inspiration for the classroom and for a form of academic research that builds on praxis and aims for social change.» (Claire Gallen, \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth Essays and Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 41.1)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Importantly, the volume achieves the rare feat of both providing ample material for reflection and leaving its readers wanting to know more about the books examined within its pages. In this sense, Fighting Words is a most stimulating read; it should be of considerable interest to a large number of students and researchers in postcolonial studies.» (Darica Tunca, \u003ci\u003eRecherche Littéraire\u003c\/i\u003e, 35)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: Tessa Roynon et al.: Introduction to \u003cem\u003eRace and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century\u003c\/em\u003e – Preface to the Second Edition – Dominic Davies\/Erica Lombard\/Benjamin Mountford: Introduction: Fighting Words: Books and the Making of the Postcolonial World – Dominic Davies: From Communism to Postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003e(1848) – Imaobong Umoren: Anna Julia Cooper’s \u003cem\u003eA Voice from the South\u003c\/em\u003e (1892): Black Feminism and Human Rights – Christina Twomey: Ambivalence, Admiration and Empire: Emily Hobhouse’s \u003cem\u003eThe Brunt of the War and Where it Fell\u003c\/em\u003e (1902) – Reiland Rabaka: W. E. B. Du Bois’s \u003cem\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/em\u003e (1903): Of the Veil and the Color-Line, of Double-Consciousness and Second-Sight – Priyasha Mukhopadhyay: \u003cem\u003eWake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform\u003c\/em\u003e (1913): Annie Besant’s Anticolonial Networks – Janet Remmington: Sol Plaatje’s \u003cem\u003eNative Life in South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (1916): The Politics of Belonging – Elleke Boehmer: Making Freedom: Jawaharlal Nehru’s \u003cem\u003eAn Autobiography \u003c\/em\u003e(1936) and \u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of India\u003c\/em\u003e (1946) – Rouven Kunstmann: Joseph B. Danquah’s \u003cem\u003eThe Akan Doctrine of God\u003c\/em\u003e (1944): Anticolonial Fragments? – Johanna Richter: The Resistant Forces of Myth: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s \u003cem\u003eMen of Maize\u003c\/em\u003e (1949) – Ruth Bush: The Hip-Hop Legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop’s \u003cem\u003eNations nègres et culture\u003c\/em\u003e (1954) – Asha Rogers: Culture in Transition: Rajat Neogy’s \u003cem\u003eTransition \u003c\/em\u003e(1961–1968) and the Decolonization of African Literature – John Narayan: Frantz Fanon’s \u003cem\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth \u003c\/em\u003e(1961): The Spectre of the Third World Project – Benjamin Mountford: «The Match is in the Spinifex»: Frank Hardy’s \u003cem\u003eThe Unlucky Australians\u003c\/em\u003e (1968) – Michael R. Griffiths: Provenance, Identification and Confession in Sally Morgan’s \u003cem\u003eMy Place\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) – Erica Lombard: Freedom Fighter\/Postcolonial Saint: The Symbolic Legacy of Nelson Mandela’s \u003cem\u003eLong Walk to Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e (1994) – Antoinette Burton\/Isabel Hofmeyr: Afterword: Plotting a Postcolonial Course in Fifteen Chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042595471703,"sku":"9781789974225","price":28.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fighting-words-fifteen-books-that-shaped-the-postcolonial-world-9781789974225","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}