Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings : Cultures and Discourses on the Edge. Comparatisme et Société / Comparatism and Society, Vol. 36.

Language: English

Published by Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang, 2017

2807600530 / 9782807600539

Series: Book 1 of 1 - Comparatisme et Société/Comparatism and Society

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236 pp. A perfect copy. - The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term "postcolonial" through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on colonialist discourses within a postmodern and globalised world. Identity-formation, cultural space, indigeneity, colonial perspectives and anti-colonial struggles suggest that former imperial (and often marginalized) colonies/territories operate as decentring spaces, becoming dynamic postcolonial centres. The consequences of colonial history in postcolonial environments in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the South Pacific regions are being analysed. This shows that postcolonial subjectivities call for a reconceptualization of the nation as political agency. The essays interrogate the social and psychological effects of colonialism, the political subjugation and instrumentalisation of colonial pasts and the perception of the self through the colonizers eyes, that may still surface in discourse on identity and belonging. The "postcolonial" is then a floating concept in a global environment where some individuals still experience a neo-colonial condition while others dismiss the colonial past but may yet re-enact colonial practices. The volume shows that the extension of a colonial centre, often raised in postcolonial criticism, is synonymous with the decentring of identity, and that the re-conceptualization of a Diasporic condition initiates a new postcolonial moment based in translation and on a new modernity. Contents: Introduction (Salhia Ben-Messahel / Vanessa Castejon) -- Colonial and Postcolonial Localities -- Postcolonial Memories and the Shattered Self (Paolo de Meideros) -- Dorris and Erdrich's The Crown of Columbus, or Building Up a Hybrid Version of 1492 for a New, Mixed-Blood America (Elisabeth Bouzonviller) -- Alistair MacLeod's Engagement with the Modern World in No Great Mischief (1999) and Island (2001) (André Dodeman) -- Postcolonial Transculturalism -- European Views of the Indigenous "Other", A Study of Responses to Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah (Vanessa Castejon / Anna Cole / Oliver Haag) -- In Trans/Action: Materialising Cultural Dissent, Activising Asian Australian Communities (Paul Giffard-Foret) -- Australian spaces, the Reconfiguring of Cultural Maps and Enrootings (Salhia Ben-Messahel) -- The Transgression of Cultural Discourse -- "What sort of world would they build on our remains": Postcolonial Anxiety in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef (Sabine Lauret) -- Calixthe Beyala's Fiction: Disguised Writing? (Laurence Randall) -- Legacies of the Empire and Postcolonial Politics -- The Evolution of the Black Cultural Archives: 1981-2015 (Sharon Baptiste) -- Arab Post-colonial Ideologies versus Colonial Political Legacy: The Case of Arab Nationalism (Fouad Nohra). ISBN 9782807600539 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 319.

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Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings : Cultures and Discourses on the Edge. Comparatisme et Société / Comparatism and Society, Vol. 36.
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Ben-Messahel, Salhia and Vanessa Castejon (eds.):
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Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang
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2017
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Softcover, 21 cm.
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English
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Book 1 of 1: Comparatisme et Société/Comparatism and Society
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