Postcolonial Cultures
Title | Postcolonial Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Featherstone |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781578067718 |
An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture
Postcolonial Cultures
Title | Postcolonial Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Featherstone |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781578067718 |
An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
Title | Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Ponzanesi |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0791484513 |
This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebù Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender and ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new élan.
Post-Colonial Cultures in France
Title | Post-Colonial Cultures in France PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Hargreaves |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1136183698 |
Ethnic minorities, principally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the surviving remnants of France's overseas empire, are increasingly visible in contemporary France. Post-Colonial Cultures in France edited by Alec Hargreaves and Mark McKinney is the first wide-ranging survey in English of the vibrant cultural practices now being forged by France's post-colonial minorities. The contributions in Post-Colonial Cultures in France cover both the ethnic diversity of minority groups and a variety of cultural forms ranging from literature and music to film and television. Using a diversity of critical and theoretical approaches from the disciplines of cultural studies, literary studies, migration studies, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Cultures in France explores the globalization of cultures and international migration.
Francophone Post-colonial Cultures
Title | Francophone Post-colonial Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Kamal Salhi |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780739105689 |
Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures, Salhi's volume is an ideal introduction to French studies beyond the canon.
Postcolonial Resistance
Title | Postcolonial Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | David Jefferess |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2008-05-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442691387 |
Despite being central to the project of postcolonialism, the concept of resistance has received only limited theoretical examination. Writers such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi K. Bhabha have explored instances of revolt, opposition, or subversion, but there has been insufficient critical analysis of the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to liberation or social and cultural transformation. In Postcolonial Resistance, David Jefferess looks to redress this critical imbalance. Jefferess argues that interpreting resistance, as these critics have done, as either acts of opposition or practices of subversion is insufficient. He discerns in the existing critical literature an alternate paradigm for postcolonial politics, and through close analyses of the work of Mohandas Gandhi and the South African reconciliation project, Postcolonial Resistance seeks to redefine resistance to reconnect an analysis of colonial discourse to material structures of colonial exploitation and inequality. Engaging works of postcolonial fiction, literary criticism, historiography, and cultural theory, Jefferess conceives of resistance and reconciliation as dependent upon the transformation of both the colonial subject and the antagonistic nature of colonial power. In doing so, he reframes postcolonial conceptions of resistance, violence, and liberation, thus inviting future scholarship in the field to reconsider past conceptualizations of political power and opposition to that power.
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry
Title | The Postcolonial Cultural Industry PDF eBook |
Author | S. Ponzanesi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137272597 |
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic bestsellers as new globalization strategies that connect postcolonial artworks to the market place.