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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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The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa represents a milestone in southern African onomastic studies. The contributors here are all members of, and speakers of, the cultures and languages they write about, and, together, they speak with an authentic African voice on naming issues in the southern part of the African continent. The volume's overarching thesis is that names are important yet often underestimated socio-politico-cultural sites on which some of the most significant events and processes in the post-colony can be read. The onomastic topics covered in the book range from the names of traditional healers and male aphrodisiacs to urban landscapes and street naming, from the interface between Chinese and African naming practices to the names of bands of musicians and mini-bus taxis. There is a strong section on literary onomastics which explores how names have been variously deployed by southern African fiction writers for certain semantic, aesthetic and ideological effects. The cultures and languages covered in this volume are equally wide-ranging, and, while some authors focus on single languages and cultures (for example Thembu, Xhosa, Shona), others look at inter-cultural influences such as the influence of the Portuguese and Chinese languages on Shona naming.Written by Professor Adrian KoopmanEmeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization
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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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"The essays, poems, and artwork included in this anthology--by the likes of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Albert Memmi, Etel Adnan, Sembene Ousmane, René Depestre, and Mohamed Melehi--offer a unique window into the political and artistic imaginaries of writers and intellectuals from the Global South."
Journalism --- Sociology of culture --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- Morocco --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization
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Annotation 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.
Postcolonialism. --- Psychic trauma. --- Emotional trauma --- Injuries, Psychic --- Psychic injuries --- Trauma, Emotional --- Trauma, Psychic --- Psychology, Pathological --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization
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The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony«, »Piracy« and »Media History and Colonialism«. Drawing on examples from film, literature, music, TV and the internet, the contributors investigate the transnational dimensions in today's media, engage with local and global media politics and discuss media outlets as economic agents, thus illustrating mechanisms of power in postcolonial and neo-colonial mediascapes.
Mass media and culture. --- Postcolonialism. --- Mass media and globalization. --- Mass media --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Culture and mass media --- Culture --- Communication in politics --- Globalization and mass media --- Globalization --- Political aspects. --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Mass communications --- Postcolonialism --- Media studies
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Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics. The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.
Languages in contact. --- Postcolonialism. --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Areal linguistics --- History --- Grammar. --- Language Contact. --- Postcolonial Language Ideologies.
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This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory, engaging with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neocolonialism, and language debates, and situating these voices within a tradition of postcolonial studies. Established domains, such as nation, history, literature, and gender, are represented with fresh insight and renewed political vigor. The anthology provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full and adequate sense of the tradition, including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism. -- Back cover.
Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialism --- Globalization in literature --- Globalization --- Transnationalism in literature --- Transnationalism --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Anti-globalization movement --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization
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Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s-70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.
Birth control --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights --- Prevention --- Postcolonialism --- History --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Parenthood, Planned --- Planned parenthood --- Planning --- Birth intervals --- Family size
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Imperialism --- Postcolonialism --- #SBIB:327.4H21 --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Historiography. --- Kolonisatie / dekolonisatie / post-kolonisatie --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Colonies --- Race relations --- History --- COLONIAL HISTORIES -- 327.2 --- EUROPE -- 327.2 --- RACE RELATIONS -- 327.2 --- IMPERIALISM -- 325 --- Historiography --- Colonie --- Historiographie --- Relations interethniques --- XXe s. -- 1901-2000
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