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S’il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c’est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d’enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d’autres continents. Ce livre collectif explore l’incidence des (auto-)biographies transculturelles des théoriciens postcoloniaux sur leur œuvre théorique, et plus particulièrement sur la comparaison littéraire qui en forme le cœur historique. De New York à Hong-Kong, d’Oxford à Yaoundé, les auteurs de l’ouvrage proviennent eux-mêmes d’horizons divers et témoignent ainsi en actes des voyages du comparatisme postcolonial.

Humanities, Multidisciplinary --- postcolonialisme --- histoire --- littérature postcoloniale --- culture --- mondialisation

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"This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations, and emerging from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise; namely the conception of particular cultural and literary articulations in relation to larger structures of colonial and imperial domination as a way of putting the theory back in postcolonial theory. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success, in part from the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled: now that they no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the field's work should be beyond these general commitments, or what its practitioners should be debating. The renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides a rare opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility, performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform, postcommunism, and the economic rise of East Asia. Finally, they address the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions (management studies, theories of the state), overlooked places and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar Germany, the environmentalism of the poor), and the necessity of materialist analysis for understanding both world and world literary systems".

Littérature postcoloniale --- Postcolonialisme --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism and the arts. --- Postcolonialism. --- Literary criticism --- General. --- Semiotics & Theory. --- Littérature postcoloniale.

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This guide places the literary works themselves at the centre of its discussions, examining how writers from Africa, Australasia, the Caribbean, Canada, Ireland, and South Asia have engaged with the challenges that beset postcolonial societies. Dave Gunning discusses many of the most-studied works of postcolonial literature, from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, as well as works by more recent writers like Chris Abani, Tahmima Anam and Shani Mootoo. Each chapter explores a key theme through drawing together works from various times and places. The book concludes with an extensive guide to further reading and tips on how to write about postcolonial literature successfully.

Littérature postcoloniale --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Postcolonialism.

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The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.

Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Capitales. --- Vie urbaine. --- Grande-Bretagne

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A multifaceted exploration of memory, mothering, literature, and postcoloniality. Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of texts from Africa and the African diaspora to establish mothering as a paradigm of progressive feminisms. Reyes creates a comparative dialogue among the fictions of five postcolonial women writers: Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Jean Rhys, and Mariama Bâ.

Esclavage --- Noirs --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Femmes --- Dans la littérature --- Blacks in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Dans la littérature. --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Dans la littérature.