Reframing Postcolonial Studies

Reframing Postcolonial Studies
Title Reframing Postcolonial Studies PDF eBook
Author David D. Kim
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 282
Release 2020-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 3030527263

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“Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. Thebook points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all.”— Robert J.C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA “Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, this book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake.” — Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University College London, UK This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitly intergenerational, future-oriented terms.

After Iraq

After Iraq
Title After Iraq PDF eBook
Author Priyamvada Gopal
Publisher Lawrence & Wishart Limited
Pages 176
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9781905007547

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An issue on new formations, which looks at topics ranging from 'urbicide', multiculturalism and eco-criticism to ideologies of postcolonial studies (including its Francophone dimensions), devolutionary Britain, cricket, counterfactualisms, humanism, humanitarianism, Zionism, and the scandal of Guantanamo Bay.

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
Title The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader PDF eBook
Author Sandra Harding
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 495
Release 2011-09-12
Genre History
ISBN 0822349574

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DIVA collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies./div

Theorizing Colonial Cinema

Theorizing Colonial Cinema
Title Theorizing Colonial Cinema PDF eBook
Author Nadine Chan
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 304
Release 2022-02
Genre History
ISBN 0253059763

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Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end, contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins. This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.

Reframing Her

Reframing Her
Title Reframing Her PDF eBook
Author Judith E. McKinlay
Publisher Sheffield Phoenix Press
Pages 214
Release 2004
Genre Postcolonialism
ISBN 9781905048007

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How does one read the story of Sarah and Hagar, or Jezebel and Rahab today, if one is a woman reader situated in a postcolonial society? This is the question undergirding this work, which considers a selection of biblical texts in which women have significant roles. Employing both a gender and a postcolonial lens, it asks sharp questions both of the interests embedded in the texts themselves and of their impact upon contemporary women readers. Whereas most postcolonial studies have been undertaken from the perspective of the colonized this work reads the texts from the position of a settler descendant, and is an attempt to engage with the disquietening and challenging questions that reading from such a location raises. Letters from early settler women in New Zealand, contemporary fiction, and personal reminiscence become tools for the task, complementing those traditionally employed in critical biblical readings.

Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation

Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation
Title Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Punt
Publisher BRILL
Pages 275
Release 2015-01-08
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004288465

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In Postcolonial Biblical Interpretation Jeremy Punt reflects on the nature and value of the postcolonial hermeneutical approach, as it relates to the interpretation of biblical and in particular, Pauline texts. Showing when a socio-politically engaged reading becomes postcolonial, but also what in the term postcolonial both attracts and also creates distance, exegesis from a postcolonial perspective is profiled. The book indicates possible avenues in how postcolonial work can be helpful theoretically to the guild of biblical scholars and to show also how it can be practiced in exegetical work done on biblical texts.

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies
Title The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies PDF eBook
Author Graham Huggan
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 751
Release 2013-09-12
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0191662410

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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past—in its multiple manifestations— and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.