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This deeply engaging, historically and culturally informed book provides new perspectives on a wide range of writers, and at the same time provides a radically new development of many of the most pertinent issues in the field of postcolonial writing and theory. It constitutes a major new engagement between the 'postcolonial' and a conception of the literary which is richly innovative in its deployment of psychoanalytic, deconstructive and other approaches to the text.The book begins with some brief background to the issue of decolonisation and its contemporary effects. It is informed throughout by a clear sense of literary and political context, within which chosen texts - by well-known writers (Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite) as well as less well-known ones (Joan Riley, Susan Power, Abdulrazak Gurnah) and writers not often seen in a postcolonial context (James Kelman, Seamus Deane, Hanif Kureishi) - can be situated. The chapters which follow are based around themes such as violent geographics; hallucination, dream and the exotic; mourning and melancholy; diaspora and exile; delocalisation and the alibi. This profoundly new approach to the complexities of the postcolonial allows the reader to appreciate some of the richness, but at the same time the political and cultural ambivalence, which underlies postcolonial writing.Throughout the book David Punter continually questions, as one would expect from his many previous books, the definition and scope of the 'postcolonial'. It is seen throughout as a phenomenon not restricted to the ex- or neo-colonies but as a key characterisation of all our lives at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an indissoluble part of the development of national imaginings and, at the same time, an alibi for the emergence of a violently assertive 'new world order' committed to the management or obliteration of difference. By juxtaposing texts from different cultural traditions and topographies, from Things Fall Apart to The Bone People, from Another Life to Feeding the Ghosts, from A House for Mr Biswas to The Black Album, David Punter points to the explosion of energy which characterises postcolonial writing while also raising crucially new questions about the relation between this literary energy, the professionalisation of Western literary criticism, the meaning of the notion of 'theory' and the wider global political and economic climate.Key FeaturesA new and polemical engagement with the principal theorists, writers and critics of the postcolonialA breadth of thematic approach through a radically new canon of linked studiesAn approach to the postcolonial which includes the effects on colonising societies as well as on the 'ex-colonies'An emphasis on the complexities of the 'postcolonial psyche' which brings together political and psychoanalytical approachesAn insistence on the 'phantomatic' and spectral aspects of postcolonial writing which constitutes a new critique of conventional notions of hybridity and the subaltern

Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization

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On s'habitue - presque - à tout, même à la violence ! On s'exaspère de tout, parfois des livres sur la violence ! On se proclame expert en tout, surtout quand il s'agit de dénon­cer la violence ! On se veut cynique en tout, plus spécialement quand on administre la violence ! On se fatigue de tout, surtout des pratiques et représentations de la violence. Celle-ci est un défi à l'intelligence, à l'éthique et au sens de la responsabilité. Les formes de violence des histoires postcoloniales et leur perpétuation nous poussent à les (re)lire et à y traquer les confusions, les manipulations et les maquillages. Affectant l'histoire et la géographie, le physique et le mental, les individus et les communautés, les États et les sociétés civiles, le sacré et le profane, le local et le global, les contemporains et leurs aïeux, les violences nous récitent non seulement le chapelet de la construction de l'absurdité de l'existence postcoloniale, mais aussi l'injustifiable permanence de l'injustice. La violence révèle le fonds bestial qui sommeille en nous, chaque fois que, ivres de notre puissance ou de notre échec, nous mettons nos intelligences et nos responsabilités en veilleuse.

History --- post-colonialisme --- violence --- littérature --- politique --- literature --- politics --- post-colonialism

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Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and postcolonial world. This fascinating study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and combined with occult arts such as alchemy and magic, this living tradition informs the work of 'Magus' figures such as Pico della Mirandola, Marcilio Ficino, Trithemius, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Paracelsus and John Dee, who are reflected in the Faust tradition and in Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination is traced through the examples of Johan Kepler, Robert Fludd, Isaac Newton, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new and exciting critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris.

Gnosticism. --- Hermetism. --- Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Hermeticism --- Occultism --- Cults --- Marlowe, Christopher,

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Dieser Sammelband dokumentiert die thematische und interdisziplinäre Breite der Forschungen zum Zusammenhang von Sprache und Kolonialismus. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Verknüpfung von Untersuchungen zu historisch-kolonialen und gegenwärtig-postkolonialen Themen, Perspektiven und Fragestellungen. Die aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Fächer und Teilfächer wie etwa Germanistik, Niederlandistik, Anglistik und Afrikanistik verfassten Beiträge behandeln Themen aus den Bereichen Toponymie, Diskursanalyse, Standardsprachenideologie, Sprachattitüden, Sprachkontakt, Sprache und Migration, Kulturmission, christliche Missionierung, Kodifizierung und Sprachenpolitik. Die Analysen sprachlicher Praktiken lassen den Kolonialismus als eine Verflechtungsgeschichte zwischen Kolonien und Metropolen erkennen, die weit über die faktische Kolonialzeit hinausreicht und bis heute sowohl in den Nachfolgestaaten der historischen Kolonien als auch im europäischen Raum der früheren Kolonialmetropolen Relevanz hat.

German language --- Language policy --- Languages in contact. --- Political aspects. --- Colonies. --- (Post)colonialism. --- Discourse. --- Language Ideology. --- Toponymy.

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Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought.

Postcolonialism. --- Political science --- Political philosophy --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Decolonization --- Philosophy.