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The book is a collection of papers presented at the 13th Triennial conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), held in 2004 in Hyderabad. The essays examine the swiftly changing connotations of nation in today's global world. The contributors to the volume come from different parts of the world, and this makes the collection a truly cross-cultural attempt to re-examine nationalism and understand its complex negotiations in the present. The title Nation in Imagination points to the shaping influence of narratives in the shifting contours of the concept of nation.
Etudes postcoloniales --- Identite nationale --- Etudes postcoloniales --- Identite nationale
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Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field's most original thinkers. Huggan's answer is interdisciplinarity and here he sets out a series of conversations between literary studies and other disciplines, notably geography, environmental studies, history and anthropology.Huggan aims to establish an alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial literary/cultural studies that is alert to similar kinds of work being done in and across other disciplines; and reflects on possible futures for postcolonial studies that move beyond current theoretical and methodological orthodoxies, and that re-stake a claim for the centrality of literary studies to the field. Graham Huggan is chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and codirector of the Leeds Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He previously taught at Harvard University and is the author of numerous volumes, including The Postcolonial Exotic.
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Etudes postcoloniales --- Interdisciplinarite
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The rationale behind this collection of essays is provided by the Saidian notion of the intellectual as a political activist, a cultural interpreter, and a traveller through cultures and worldviews. As the title of the book suggests, being an academic today entails working in the ethical/political field of education and writing (in the sense of doing research and disseminating knowledge) with the sense of being in the world and having a project for tomorrow in mind: a future of beneficial dialogical encounters, critical awareness, and mutual understanding. The key notion of encounter—physical, intellectual, cultural—necessarily permeates the intellectual’s interest in socio-cultural phenomena and transformations, and also the work of this volume’s contributors. The contributions deal with English, Black-British, North-American, Caribbean, and African literatures and cultures, and postcolonial theory and writing. Their main temporal focus is on the present: they are variously concerned with the here and now, as they analyse complex representations of culture in specific geographic and historical contexts. Special attention to ongoing processes of identity formation and to power relations between hegemonic and marginal discourses and positions is found throughout the collection, so that interesting reading paths across cultural borders can be followed. This collection is offered as a festschrift on the occasion of Itala Vivan’s retirement from her position as Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial and Cultural Studies at the University of Milan, Italy, and it wishes to celebrate her intense scholarly activity, always carried out with the future in mind.
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Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis answers questions through a critical examination of the work of critics such as Fanon, Nandy, Bhabha, Deleuze and Guattari. It includes a consideration of key works by each critic, explores their broader reasons for using psychoanalysis in terms of their own theoretical projects as well as in relation to each other and discusses the problems that follow. Greedharry's book offers students and researchers alike a clear account of why psychoanalysis has been an important method for postcolonial scholarship as well as suggestions about how we might move forward from psychoanalytic readings of the colony
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The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the imagination of the first generation of professional historians. But with the Empire ended, do these mental habits still haunt historical explanation? Drawing on postcolonial theory in a lively mix of historical and theoretical chapters, The Expansion of England explores the history of the British Empire and the practice of historical enquiry itself. There are essays on Asia, Australasia, the West Indies, South Africa and Britain. Examining the sexual, racial and ethnic identities shaping the experiences of English men and women in the nineteenth century, the authors argue that habits of thought forged in the Empire still give meaning to English identities today.
GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- COLONIES --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- COLONIES --- HISTOIRE
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Black British writing, as a branch of postcolonial cultural production, has made a considerable impact on the contemporary literary scene. The starting point of this study is the programmatic ‚contact zone‘, a topos of transcultural and multilingual encounter. The spatial contact zone of post-WWII Britain has engendered literary contact zones, Black British novels, which often focus on the meeting of cultures and languages. As an alternative and a supplement to purely thematic approaches to Black British writing, this study offers a model of ethnic semiosis and proposes a methodology which brings together postcolonial ideology, reader reception theory, semiotics, film studies, cultural theory, sociolinguistics and translation studies. This forms the basis for a cross-section analysis of more than 30 Black British novels and the versatility of the proposed framework and analytical tools.
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Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. This book questions issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing theoretical concepts.
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This book investigates representations of the nation of India as characterized by unity and diversity in the works of six contemporary novelists, linking their work to important political, historical and theoretical writings. The author discusses selected works by six contemporary Indian novelists writing in English - Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Arundhati Roy, Ruchir Joshi, and Rupa Bajwa - all of whom have made the Indian nation a central theme in their fiction. All these writers respond, in varying ways, to the idea of India as united in diversity, a construct most readily associated with the nationalist vision of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. In considering India's past and looking towards the future, they struggle with and attempt to extend the available language of cultural diversity.
INDE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- LITTERATURE DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- INDE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- LITTERATURE DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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This volume offers a welcome opportunity to assess trends in the twenty-first century's discourse on African literature: Twelve different articles treat such lively issues as modernity, nation, civil society, postcolonial theory, and feminism, relating these both to more recent short stories, poems, and novels and to a large variety of texts that have in one way or another acquired canonical status.
Postcolonialisme --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE --- Dans la littérature --- 20E SIECLE --- Postcolonialisme --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE --- Dans la littérature --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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It has been customary to speak of the British colonial project and its present-day reverberations in terms of cultural clash and ensuing resistance on the part of the colonised. In challenging that perspective, this study regards the concept of hybridity as historically pertinent to the first contact situation, and thus moves beyond an intercultural premise to a transcultural one in addressing the effects of Anglicisation. It posits that the contemporary parameters of identity formation in the colonially-incepted Anglophone world can best be understood as deriving from the state of "transitionality". Since the most comprehensive treatment of "transitional identity" is found in the self-narratives of writers located in transitionality, the genre of autobiography forms the focus of this study. As canonical autobiography theory is informed by premises found to have little relevance to "transitionality", these highly individuated autobiographies, which stem moreover from a wide variety of global regions, are here analysed with the help of a fresh theory of autobiography. As a result, the significance of "transitional autobiography", not only for reconsidering postcolonial theory, but also for re-conceptualisation of literary self-representation, has been brought to the fore.
MOI --- IDENTITE (PSYCHOLOGIE) --- IDENTITE COLLECTIVE --- POSTCOLONIALISME --- AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- INTERCULTURALITE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- COMMONWEALTH --- MOI --- IDENTITE (PSYCHOLOGIE) --- IDENTITE COLLECTIVE --- POSTCOLONIALISME --- AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- INTERCULTURALITE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- COMMONWEALTH
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