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Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading. As the conditions from which postcolonial literatures have emerged necessitate a break from the "proper" ways to represent trauma, postcolonial writers expand and complicate the very practice of reading. Though postcolonial literature's capacity to represent trauma has received considerable scrutiny in recent years, Postcolonial Parabola is innovative in its consideration of the postcolonial text as a literary object. Working within a phenomenological framework that ties together disparate postcolonial periods, Jay Rajiva explores how narrative structure shapes the experience of reading the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka. He argues that these texts enmesh the reader in an asymptotic tactility: though the reader might approach the disclosure of trauma, he cannot arrive at it. Awareness of the asymptotic nature of reading such works is crucial to a meaningful, ethical engagement with literary representations of postcolonial trauma. "Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experience of reading. As the conditions from which postcolonial literatures have emerged necessitate a break from the "proper" ways to represent trauma, postcolonial writers expand and complicate the very practice of reading. Though postcolonial literature's capacity to represent trauma has received considerable scrutiny in recent years, Postcolonial Parabola is innovative in its consideration of the postcolonial text as a literary object. Working within a phenomenological framework that ties together disparate postcolonial periods, Jay Rajiva explores how narrative structure shapes the experience of reading the postcolonial literatures of South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka. He argues that these texts enmesh the reader in an asymptotic tactility: though the reader might approach the disclosure of trauma, he cannot arrive at it. Awareness of the asymptotic nature of reading such works is crucial to a meaningful, ethical engagement with literary representations of postcolonial trauma."-- "An innovative study of literary representations of postcolonial trauma, exploring how they both expand and limit the reader's experience of trauma"--
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"The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back by the now famous troika - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. When The Empire Writes Back first appeared in 1989, it put postcolonial cultures and their post-invasion narratives on the map. This vibrant collection of fifteen chapters by both established and emerging scholars taps into this early mapping while merging these concerns with present trends which have been grouped as: comparing, converting, greening, post-queering and utopia. The postcolonial is a centrifugal force that continues to energize globalization, transnational, diaspora, area and queer studies. Spanning the colonial period from the 1860s to the present, The Future of Postcolonial Studies ventures into other postcolonies outside of the Anglophone purview. In reassessing the nation-state, language, race, religion, sexuality, the environment, and the very idea of 'the future, ' this volume reasserts the notion that postcolonial is an "anticipatory discourse" and bears testimony to the driving energy and thus the future of postcolonial studies"--
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Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion—the use of postcolonial theories—relatively new to the field of children’s literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures.
Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- imperialisme --- ideologie --- politiek --- jeugdliteratuur --- kolonialisme --- Children's literature --- Children --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Native peoples in literature --- Indigenous peoples in literature. --- Littérature de jeunesse --- Littérature pour la jeunesse --- Enfants --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Autochtones dans la littérature --- Autochtones --- History and criticism --- Books and reading --- Political aspects --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique. --- Livres et lecture --- Aspect politique --- Dans la littérature. --- Autochtones dans la littérature. --- Children's literature. --- Indigenes Volk. --- Kinderliteratur. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Native peoples in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Postkoloniale Literatur. --- TRAVEL --- Books and reading. --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects. --- Livres et lecture. --- General. --- Aspect politique. --- Special Interest --- Literary. --- Commonwealth.
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Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.
Sociology of literature --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Crime in literature --- Cross-cultural studies --- Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- History and criticism.
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Cet ouvrage explore les relations entre littérature et tradition postcoloniale, tout en interrogeant les principes qui ont guidé jusqu'ici les études postcoloniales, en particulier la prégnance de l'activisme politique au coeur du travail de représentation littéraire et le lien sous-jacent entre rupture politique et innovation poétique.
Postcolonialism in literature --- Continuity in literature --- Politics and literature --- Literature, Modern --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Continuité dans la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littérature anglophone --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Continuité dans la littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire et critique. --- Themes, motives.
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Postcolonial life narratives" draws together two dynamic fields of contemporary literature and criticism, postcolonialism and life narrative, to create a new assemblage: postcolonial life narrative. Focusing in particular on testimonial narrative, from slave narrative in the late eighteenth century to contemporary Anglophone life narrative from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Palestine, North America, and India, this study follows texts on the move through adaptation, appropriation, and remediation. For postcolonial subjects life narrative offers extraordinary opportunities to present accounts of social injustice and oppression, of violence and social suffering. Testimonial narrative can reach across cultures to produce intimate attachments between those who testify and those who bear witness to legacies of apartheid, slavery, rape warfare, genocide, and dispossession. Thresholds of testimony are subject to change and for some, for example refugees and asylum seekers, opportunities to engage a witnessing public and inspire campaigns for social justice on their behalf are curtailed-these are the 'ends of testimony'. The production, circulation, and reception of testimonial life narrative connects directly to the most fundamental questions of who counts as human, what rights follow from this, and what makes for grievable life. Postcolonial life narrative is a dynamic field of literature and criticism, and this book presents a series of proximate readings that outline its distinctive imaginative geographies.
Postcolonialism in literature --- English literature --- Personal narratives --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Récits personnels --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littérature anglophone --- Autobiographie --- Histoire et critique --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Autobiography --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Récits personnels --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire et critique.
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"Postcolonial Theories is a lively introduction to postcolonial theories, contexts and literatures which presents both the theory and practice to students in approachable and attractive ways. Jenni Ramone includes discussion of a wide range of influential theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Edward Said, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Paul Gilroy and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She also demonstrates postcolonial ideas through compelling readings of a wide range of exciting literary texts, including: -Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile -Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger -Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy -Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother. Covering a diverse array of geographical locations, and featuring a helpful timeline and annotated bibliography, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in postcolonial theories and how they have continued to adapt in the wake of globalization, digital technology and neo-colonialism"
Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- 325 --- 820 <100> --- 820 "19" --- 82.0 --- Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Literatuurtheorie --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- 325 Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek) --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialism in literature
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"This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. In this conception, the insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power relations in recent children's novels reveals significant tensions, or even contradictions, with regards to the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children's literature in Britain is shown to have been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is seen as both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. The author examines the ways in which children's fictions have challenged dominant structures of power and imperial ideologies while sometimes straddling the border between subversion and an uneasy complicity. The texts analysed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, the author demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature combines a critical survey of contemporary British writing for children and young adults with the central concerns of postcolonial studies. It reveals complex engagements with questions of national identity, cultural hybridity, decolonization, and diasporic culture within contemporary British children's literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- postkolonialisme --- politiek --- jeugdliteratuur --- Roman anglais pour la jeunesse --- Roman anglais --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Histoire et critique. --- Children's stories, English --- Children's stories, English. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Histoires pour enfants anglaises --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- 1900-2099.
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"Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critical study of the relationship between bodies, memories and communal witnessing. With a focus on the aesthetics and politics of queer postcolonial narratives, this book examines how unspeakable traumas of colonial and familial violence are communicated through the body. Exploring multisensory epistemologies as queer and anti-colonial acts of resistance, McCormack offers an original engagement with collective and public forms of bearing witness that may emerge in response to institutionalized violence. Intergenerational, communal and fragmented narratives are central to this analysis of ethics, witnessing, and embodied memories. Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is the first text to offer a sustained analysis of Judith Butler's and Homi Bhabha's intersecting theories of performativity, and to draw out the centrality of witnessing to the performative structure of power. It moves through queer, postcolonial, disability and trauma studies to explore how the repetition of familial violence – throughout multiple generations –may be lessened through an embodied witnessing that is simultaneously painful, disturbing and filled with pleasure. Its focus is selected literary texts by Shani Mootoo, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Ann-Marie MacDonald, and it situates this literary analysis in the colonial histories of Trinidad, Morocco and Canada." --
Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Witnesses in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Queer theory. --- Testimony (Theory of knowledge) --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Violence dans la littérature. --- Théorie queer. --- Témoignage (Théorie de la connaissance) --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Power (Social sciences) in literature --- Queer theory --- Testimony (Theory of knowledge) --- Violence in literature --- Witnesses in literature
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