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Il Tolomeo
ISSN: 15941930 24995975

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Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World : Decolonial Challenges to the Humanities and Social Sciences from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
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ISBN: 3110733196 3110738090 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the ‘global South’ remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. This volume builds on a lecture series held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020


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Working and writing for tomorrow : essays in honour of Itala Vivan
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ISBN: 9781905510177 Year: 2008 Publisher: Nottingham : CCCP (Critical, Cultural and Communications Press),

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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 : from uneasy engagements to effective critique
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ISBN: 9780230521636 Year: 2008 Publisher: Basingstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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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

The expansion of England : race, ethnicity and cultural history
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ISBN: 9780415060264 Year: 1996 Publisher: London New-York : Routledge,

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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.


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Cultures in the contact zone : ethnic semiosis in black British literature
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ISBN: 3884765442 Year: 2002 Publisher: Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier,

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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.

Rethinking postcolonialism : colonialist discourse in modern literatures and the legacy of classical writers
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ISBN: 0230552056 9780230552050 0230583571 1281976121 1349362646 9786611976125 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.

The nation of India in contemporary Indian literature
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ISBN: 9781403983909 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.


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ACLALS bulletin. Association for Commonwealth Literature and language studies.
ISSN: 01576283 Publisher: Singapore.


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Texts, tasks an theories : versions and subversions in African literatures
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ISBN: 9789042023741 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam New York : Rodopi,

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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.

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