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Securitising Decolonisation - The Silencing Of Ewe And Togoland Unification Under United Nations Trusteeship, 1945-1960

by Julius Heise

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 This theory-driven history of the Ewe-Togoland movement, where UN-backed dreams echoed in silence, unfolds lessons for modern statebuilding.
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Decolonising The Future Academy In Africa And Beyond - Institutional Development And Collaboration

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 Decolonising academia in Africa? Inspiration from the development of anthropology at African universities and international collaboration on par.
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Alleviative Objects Â€“ Intersectional Entanglement And Progressive Racism In Caribbean Art

by David Frohnapfel

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 Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through the analysis of intersectional entanglements and offers important insight into inter-racial conflicts that shape the global field of contemporary art today.
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Entanglements Of The Maghreb Â€“ Cultural And Political Aspects Of A Region In Motion

by Charlotte Pardey, Friederike Pannewick, Julius Dihstelhoff e Rachid Ouaissa

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 The Maghreb is a region in motion; this volume approaches it via the concept of Entanglements and addresses its culture, politics, and social affairs.
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Transgressive Truths And Flattering Lies Â€“ The Poetics And Ethics Of Anglophone Arab Representations

by Markus Schmitz

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 This study discusses Anglophone Arab works in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets radically displaced by strategic relational dissonance.
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Haram In The Harem - Domestic Narratives In India And Algeria

by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

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 Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts: the middle-class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian Revolution, and the Partition of India. During each of these periods the subject of women, their behavior, bodies, and dress were discussed by male scholars, politicians, and revolutionaries. The resonating theme amongst these disparate events is that women were believed to be best protected when they were ensconced within their homes and governed by their families, particularly male authority, whether they were fathers, brothers, or husbands. The threat to national identity was often linked to the preservation of womanly purity. Yet for the writers of this study, Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), Assia Djebar (1936-), and Khadija Mastur (1927-1982), the danger to women was not in the public sphere but embedded within a domestic hierarchy enforced by male privilege. In their fictional texts, each writer shows how women resist, subvert, and challenge the normative behaviors prescribed in masculine discourse. In their writings they highlight the different ways women negotiated private spaces between intersecting masculine hegemonies of power including colonialism and native patriarchy. They demonstrate distinct literary viewpoints of nation, home, and womens experiences at particular historical moments. The choice of these various texts reveals how fiction provided a safe space for female writers to contest traditional systems of power. Bringing into focus the voices and experiences of women who existed as limited cultural icons in the nationalist discourse is a common theme throughout the selected stories. This book showcases the fluidity of literature as a response to the intersections of gender, race, and nation.
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Photography In Latin America - Images And Identities Across Time And Space

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 This book explores how photographic images from Latin America are currently being used regarding memory politics, ethnographic imagination, as well as the negotiation of identity.
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The Promise Of Diversity Â€“ How Brazilian Brand Capitalism Affects Precarious Identities And Work

by Nicolas Wasser

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 How precarious is diversity? An ethnographic encounter with affective laborers in a Brazilian fashion enterprise.
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Transnational Black Dialogues - Re-Imagining Slavery In The Twenty-First Century

by Markus Nehl

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 This transnational study focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery and engage in the intricacies of (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
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(Post)Colonial Histories - Trauma, Memory And Reconciliation In The Context Of The Angolan Civil War

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 In which way interact (post)colonial discourses with memory discourses? This anthology deals with these questions with the film "My heart of darkness" as a starting point.
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Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies - A Critical Encounter

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 Essays on selected topics relating to both Postcolonial Studies and Media Studies illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other.
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Caribbean Food Cultures - Culinary Practices And Consumption In The Caribbean And Its Diasporas

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 Â»Caribbean Food CulturesÂ« is dedicated to the emerging academic field of Caribbean food studies. The anthology focuses on food and consumption practices, thus filling a gap in contemporary Caribbean and diaspora studies.
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Political Responsibility For A Globalised World Â€“ After Levinas' Humanism

by Ernst Wolff

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 Responsibility for the world: Starting from Levinas' Humanism, this book discusses how responsible politics might look in the age of globalization.
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Humanism In East Asian Confucian Contexts

by Chun-Chieh Huang

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 The path towards a conciliatory world culture does not lead past elaborating the humanist traditions of Confucian culture as well. This volume provides a vital insight into humanism and being human in East Asia.
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Migrant Identities Of «Creole Cosmopolitans» - Transcultural Narratives Of Contemporary Postcoloniality

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 One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of «hybridity». Many such narratives are under-theorized migrations, such as Dalit narratives from India and inter-island migrations in the Caribbean. Collectively, the essays suggest that there are ways in which the forms of the migrant aesthetics, language, and imaginaries may offer new insights in the interactions between practices and discourses of hybridity and cosmopolitanism by examining their precise points of intersection and divergence. This inquiry is especially timely because it raises questions about the circulation, marketing, and consumption of narratives of migration, dislocation, and «diaspora.» In addition, the collection addresses in at least two significant ways the question about «beyond postcolonialism» and the future of the discipline. First, by questioning and critically examining some foundational theories in postcolonialism, it points to possible new directions in our theoretical vocabulary. Second, it offers an array of reflections around disparate geographies that are, equally importantly, written in different languages. The value that the authors place on languages other than English and their choice to focus on the effect that multiple languages have on the present of postcolonial studies are in line with one of the aims of the collection to make the case for a multilingual expansion of the postcolonial imaginary as a necessary imperative.
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Immigration And Contemporary British Theater - Finding A Home On The Stage

by Victoria Sams

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 Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history, and migration studies, the book examines the ways that immigration to the United Kingdom has reshaped British theatrical culture and inspired new conceptions of Britishness and of communal belonging. Furthermore, it examines how immigrant theater artists from widely varying backgrounds (geographical, educational, cultural) have worked within and around existing theatrical institutions in Britain.
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Imagined Topographies - From Colonial Resource To Postcolonial Homeland

by Jonathan Bishop Highfield

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 One important legacy of colonialism is the separation of a culture from the land upon which its people live. Populations are displaced; topographical objects are renamed, and the land becomes a resource to be exploited. Starting with three landscapes viewed as threatening by the Europeans who colonized them, Imagined Topographies examines the ways artists, writers, and musicians distill new meaning in formerly colonized spaces through the articulation of landscapes that are homelands, not commodities. In the Irish bog Seamus Heaney explores legacies of violence, John Dunne looks at rural poverty and religious faith, and Catherine Harper creates art connecting landscape and gender. Influenced by the Amazon, Wilson Harris creates dense multi-layered Guyanese epics, Karen Tei Yamashita plays with the telenovela to explore the role of multinational corporations in deforestation, and in recordings Douglas Quin combines the natural world with the technological, raising questions of connected cultural and natural loss. The two landscapes of Australia, the empty land of the colonizers and the fertile land known by the original inhabitants, are explored in the novels of David Malouf, while Peter Carey turns to the animal world to define the Australian national character, and the people of Ramingining, in films and a website created in collaboration with the filmmaker Rolf de Heer, intervene in the Australian land rights struggle. Challenging the dominant perceptions of land in these regions, artists, musicians, and writers create new visions of landscapes tied to cultures where social and ecological justice offer choices other than emigration and habitat destruction.
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Founding Fictions Of The Dutch Caribbean - Carel De Haseths "Slave And Master (Katibu Di Shon)" - A Dual-Language Edition - Translated And With An Introduction By Olga E. Rojer And Joseph O. Ai

by Joseph O. Aimone e Olga E. Rojer

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 Carel de Haseths novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseths Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.
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The Democratic Promise - The Individual Within The Community

by Constance Goh

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 Engages Slavoj Zizek's psychoanalytic and cultural reading of politics and terror, Jacques Ranciere's concept of the partition of the sensible, Alain Badiou's ethics and politics, and Jacques Derrida's thoughts on philosophy in a time of terror in order to radically rethink politics in and through aesthetics as analogies of political subjectivity.
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The Play Of Reasons - The Sacred And The Profane In Salman Rushdies Fiction

by Youssef Yacoubi

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 Argues that Salman Rushdie's eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. This book demonstrates the extent to which literature is committed to a critical reconceptualization of history, and value systems based in the possibilities of risk, constructive doubt, and contingency.
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The Fabric Of Subcultures - Networks, Ethnic Force Fields, And Peoples Without Power

by Mustapha Marrouchi

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 Reflects on state of postcolonial signature behind stylistic refinements - a world of letters relatively dependent on West for economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. This book explores the significance of cultural practices related to food and sports.
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Identity In Place - Contemporary Indigenous Fiction By Women Writers In The United States, Canada, Australia, And New Zealand

by Paula Anca Farca

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 Analyzes the role of place and its cultural significance in the fiction of eight contemporary Indigenous women writers. This title reveals how Indigenous people survive in a postcolonial world, heal, regain homes and rituals, and subsequently build new homes and create traditions.
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Imperial Affliction - Eighteenth-Century British Poets And Their Twentieth-Century Lives

by Thomas Simmons

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 In many ways, Robert J C Young writes, colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction. This title examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain.
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The Postcolonial Citizen - The Intellectual Migrant

by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

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 The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement from the formerly colonized spaces into the West is the vexed question of dislocation and displacement for these intellectual subjects. The Postcolonial Citizen traces how such modes of (un)belonging are represented within literary and cultural space and how migrancy, and in particular the postcolonial «intellectual» migrant, is symbolically and philosophically understood as a cultural icon of displacement in the West. Using literary texts, autobiographical narrative of displacement, and cultural criticism, this book treats the cultural reception of intellectual migrancy (particularly within America) as both an uneasy and ambiguous condition. What is timely about this books treatment of migrancy is the current threat imposed on postcolonial writers and scholars in the United States post-9/11. The book examines and exposes the consequences of intellectually intervening into democratic ideals after the rise of the «national security state» giving the migrant sensibility of dislocation a socio-political dimension. Thus, in dealing with the cultural reception of migrancy, The Postcolonial Citizen clearly marks the shift between pre- and post-9/11 migrant subjectivity and particularly addresses how the «third world» intellectual migrant has become synonymous with the voice of dissent and threat to the established democratic order in the United States.
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