Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes

Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781134142279
ISBN-13 : 1134142277
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes by : Robert Fraser

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This change of attitude will encourage students and researchers to question developmentally conceived models of communication, and move instead to a re-formulation of just what is meant by a book, an author, a text. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa, before panning out to examine conflicts and paradoxes arising in parallel contexts. The re-orientation of approach and the freshness of view offered by this volume will foster understanding and creative collaboration between scholars of different outlooks, while offering a radical critique to those identified in its concluding section as purveyors of global literary power.

The Postcolonial Eye

The Postcolonial Eye
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781409479185
ISBN-13 : 1409479188
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Postcolonial Eye by : Dr Alison Ravenscroft

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Writing against current moves to erase this divide and to obscure difference, Alison Ravenscroft stresses that modern Indigenous cultures can be profoundly, even bewilderingly, strange and at times unknowable within the terms of 'white' cultural forms. She argues for a different ethics of looking, in particular, for aesthetic practices that allow Indigenous cultural products, especially in the literary arts, to retain their strangeness in the eyes of a white subject. The specificity of her subject matter allows Ravenscroft to deal with the broad issues of postcolonial theory and race and ethnicity without generalising. This specificity is made visible in, for example, Ravenscroft's treatment of the figuring of white desire in Aboriginal fiction, film and life-stories, and in her treatment of contemporary Indigenous cultural practices. While it is located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781107023734
ISBN-13 : 1107023734
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book by : Leslie Howsam

An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

Beginning postcolonialism

Beginning postcolonialism
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 423
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ISBN-10 : 9781847794055
ISBN-13 : 184779405X
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Synopsis Beginning postcolonialism by : John McLeod

Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area. Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time and has become an established international best-seller in the field. In this fully revised and updated second edition, John McLeod introduces the major areas of concern in a clear, accessible and organised fashion. He provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline and closely examines its many established critical approaches while also exploring important recent initiatives in the field. In particular, Beginning Postcolonialism demonstrates how many key postcolonial ideas and concepts can be effectively applied when reading texts and enables students to develop their own independent thinking about the possibilities and pitfalls of postcolonial critique.

Postcolonial Audiences

Postcolonial Audiences
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781136454387
ISBN-13 : 1136454381
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Postcolonial Audiences by : Bethan Benwell

Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial – from the notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of reading.

Postcolonial Custodianship

Postcolonial Custodianship
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781317818083
ISBN-13 : 1317818083
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Postcolonial Custodianship by : Filippo Menozzi

This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics. The author considers the ethical responsibility of the postcolonial intellectual, enhancing our understanding of this topic through the concept of custodianship, which may be defined as a responsibility towards the other in forms of cultural and literary inheritance. The author introduces custodianship as a central theme and a vital question for the committed intellectual today, proposing original interpretations of major postcolonial texts by key figures including Anita Desai, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy. Through close reading and historical analysis, Postcolonial Custodianship reveals that a practice of custodianship has always been an essential element of these writers’ ethical engagement, yet in a way that has never been explored. The author contends that the question of custodianship should not be seen as a merely negative designation; it is by redefining the very meaning of custodianship that the ethical dimension of postcolonialism can be rediscovered.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Oxford History of the Novel in English
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 608
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ISBN-10 : 9780190628161
ISBN-13 : 0190628162
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford History of the Novel in English by : Simon Gikandi

Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.

Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781405158565
ISBN-13 : 1405158565
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism by : R. S. Sugirtharajah

Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies.? Offers a concise and accessible introduction to postcolonial biblical studies Provides a comprehensive overview of postcolonial studies by one of the field's most prominent figures Explains one of the most innovative and important developments in modern biblical studies Accessible enough to appeal to general readers interested in religion

Books Without Borders, Volume 2

Books Without Borders, Volume 2
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9780230289130
ISBN-13 : 0230289134
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Books Without Borders, Volume 2 by : R. Fraser

This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.

An Introduction to Book History

An Introduction to Book History
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780415688055
ISBN-13 : 0415688051
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis An Introduction to Book History by : David Finkelstein

This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture. Each fully revised and updated chapter contains new material and covers recent developments in the field, including: The Postcolonial Book Censorship by states and religions Social History, and the recognition of underrepresentation of its value to book history studies Contemporary publishing Each section begins with a summary of the chapter's aims and contents, followed by a detailed discussion of the relevant issues, concluding with a summary of the chapter and points to ponder. Sections include: the history of the book orality to Literacy literacy to printing authors, authorship and authority printers, booksellers, publishers, agents readers and reading the future of the book. An Introduction to Book History is an ideal introduction to this exciting field of study, and is designed as a companion text to The Book History Reader.