Creating Postcolonial Literature
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Author |
: C. Davis |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2013-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137328380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113732838X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating Postcolonial Literature by : C. Davis
Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature.
Author |
: M. Keown |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2009-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230232785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230232787 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas by : M. Keown
Bringing together a group of intellectuals from a number of disciplines, this collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts.
Author |
: C. Davis |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2013-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137328380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113732838X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating Postcolonial Literature by : C. Davis
Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature.
Author |
: Ambreen Hai |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2009-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821443347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821443348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Words Matter by : Ambreen Hai
Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure “haram” flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child–agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E. M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self–reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored, and that this central concern with literary agency is embedded in, indeed definitive of, colonial and postcolonial literature. Making Words Matter contends that the figure of the human body is central to the self–imagining of the text in the world because the body uniquely concretizes three dimensions of agency: it is at once the site of autonomy, instrumentality, and subjection. Hai’s work exemplifies a new trend in postcolonial studies: to combine aesthetics and politics and to offer a historically and theoretically informed mode of interpretation that is sophisticated, lucid, and accessible. This is the first study to identify and examine the rich convergence of issues and to chart their dynamic. Hai opens up the field of postcolonial literary studies to fresh questions, engaging knowledgeably with earlier scholarship and drawing on interdisciplinary theory to read both well known and lesser–known texts in a new light. It should be of interest internationally to students and scholars in a variety of fields including British, Victorian, modernist, colonial, or postcolonial literary studies, queer or cultural studies, South Asian studies, history, and anthropology.
Author |
: Ania Loomba |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2007-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134267859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134267851 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonialism/Postcolonialism by : Ania Loomba
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines: key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism the relationship of colonial discourse to literature challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories issues of sexuality and colonialism, and the intersection of feminist and postcolonial thought debates about globalization and postcolonialism Recommended on courses across the academic disciplines and around the world, Colonialism/Postcolonialism has for some years been accepted as the essential introduction to a vibrant and politically charged area of literary and cultural study. With new coverage of emerging debates around globalization, this second edition will continue to serve as the ideal guide for students new to colonial discourse theory, postcolonial studies or postcolonial theory as well as a reference for advanced students and teachers.
Author |
: Nalo Hopkinson |
Publisher |
: arsenal pulp press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2004-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781551523163 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1551523167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis So Long Been Dreaming by : Nalo Hopkinson
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color. Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre “speaks so much about the experience of being alienated but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves.” It’s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology. The book depicts imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the “third world.” It includes stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centered in the worlds of the “developing” nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into. The wealth of postcolonial literature has included many who have written insightfully about their pasts and presents. With So Long Been Dreaming they creatively address their futures. Contributors include: Opal Palmer Adisa, Tobias Buckell, Wayde Compton, Hiromi Goto, Andrea Hairston, Tamai Kobayashi, Karin Lowachee, devorah major, Carole McDonnell, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Eden Robinson, Nisi Shawl, Vandana Singh, Sheree Renee Thomas and Greg Van Eekhout. Nalo Hopkinson is the internationally-acclaimed author of Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk, and Salt Roads. Her books have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree, and Philip K. Dick Awards; Skin Folk won a World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award. Born in Jamaica, Nalo moved to Canada when she was sixteen. She lives in Toronto. Uppinder Mehan is a scholar of science fiction and postcolonial literature. A South Asian Canadian, he currently lives in Boston and teaches at Emerson College.
Author |
: Chiara Giuliani |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2021-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030750633 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030750639 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature by : Chiara Giuliani
This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.
Author |
: Pheng Cheah |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2015-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822374534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822374536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Is a World? by : Pheng Cheah
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of literature’s world-making power by creatively synthesizing four philosophical accounts of the world as a temporal process: idealism, Marxist materialism, phenomenology, and deconstruction. Literature opens worlds, he provocatively suggests, because it is a force of receptivity. Cheah compellingly argues for postcolonial literature’s exemplarity as world literature through readings of narrative fiction by Michelle Cliff, Amitav Ghosh, Nuruddin Farah, Ninotchka Rosca, and Timothy Mo that show how these texts open up new possibilities for remaking the world by negotiating with the inhuman force that gives time and deploying alternative temporalities to resist capitalist globalization.
Author |
: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2017-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107166844 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107166845 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature by : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.
Author |
: Robert J. C. Young |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2016-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405120944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405120940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonialism by : Robert J. C. Young
This seminal work—now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface—is 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