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This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and contested relationship between Trauma Studies and postcolonial theory, focusing on the possibilities for creating a decolonized trauma theory that takes account of the suffering of minority groups and non-Western cultures, broadly defined as cultures beyond Western Europe and North America. The issue builds on the insights of, inter alia, Stef Craps’s book, Postcolonial Witnessing, and responds to his challenge to interrogate and move beyond a Eurocentric trauma paradigm.
Post-colonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization
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Der moderne europäische Kolonialismus hat die Ordnung der Welt tiefgreifend und dauerhaft verändert. Dies gilt für politische und wirtschaftliche, vor allem aber auch für "mentale" Strukturen. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der kolonialen Vergangenheit und ein Gedenken der Opfer sind in den ehemals kolonisierenden Gesellschaften dabei bisher weitgehend ausgeblieben. Dieser Befund trifft in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß auf Deutschland und die Niederlande zu, wie die Beiträge des Sammelbandes zeigen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren reflektieren den gegenwärtigen Stand der nachkolonialen Erinnerungskulturen in der Pädagogik, in literarischen Werken und im öffentlichen Gedenken. Neue Herausforderungen an ein bislang national geprägtes kollektives Gedächtnis ergeben sich durch die zunehmende Pluralisierung der beiden Einwanderungsgesellschaften. Schließlich wird nach der Zukunft von Erinnerung in einer sich entwickelnden Weltgesellschaft gefragt. Mit Beiträgen von Micha Brumlik, Kathrin Gawarecki, Matthias Heyl, Nicole Jansen, Anne Kerber, Reinhart Kössler, Rudolf Leiprecht, Helma Lutz, Gert Oostinde, Pamela Pattynama, Frank van Vree, Hasko Zimmer.
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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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Armed conflict; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Military history: post WW2 conflicts
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism --- Military history: post WW2 conflicts --- Armed conflict --- Armed conflict; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Military history: post WW2 conflicts --- Armed conflict; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Military history: post WW2 conflicts
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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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Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism. Gandhi examined the contributions of major thinkers such as Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and the subaltern historians. The book pointed to postcolonialism's relationship with earlier anticolonial thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and M. K. Gandhi and explained pertinent concepts and schools of thought-hybridity, Orientalism, humanism, Marxist dialectics, diaspora, nationalism, gendered subalternity, globalization, and postcolonial feminism.The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate. It includes substantial additions: A new preface and epilogue reposition postcolonial studies within evolving intellectual contexts and take stock of important critical developments. Gandhi examines recent alliances with critical race theory and Africanist postcolonialism, considers challenges from postsecular and postcritical perspectives, and takes into account the ontological, environmental, affective, and ethical turns in the changed landscape of critical theory. She describes what is enduring in postcolonial thinking-as a critical perspective within the academy and as an attitude to the world that extends beyond the discipline of postcolonial studies. Ultimately, postcolonial thinking is committed to noninjuriousness as a way of life and as a basis for community.
Postcolonialism. --- Postkolonialismus. --- Theorie. --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- History.
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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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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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This volume critically unpacks the concept of political society, formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.
Democracy --- Political participation --- Civil society --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Social contract
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Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism. --- Colonialism & Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization
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