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Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature
2021Diagnosing Postcolonial Literature is a fresh and needed intervention into the study of postcolonial literature and the postcolonial condition. Deleuze's notion that literature is an enterprise of health, and that great authors consequently are diagnosticians of their culture, can be applied to postcolonial literature.
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2021
Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the ‘world’ of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world – whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization – cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe’s colonial expansion.
Wiemann, Dirk (Prof. Dr.) +2 more
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Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the ‘world’ of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world – whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization – cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe’s colonial expansion.
Wiemann, Dirk (Prof. Dr.) +2 more
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2008
This Guide analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by key writers, such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Jamaica Kincaid, is discussed throughout the volume to illustrate the themes and concepts that are essential to an understanding of ...
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This Guide analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by key writers, such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Jamaica Kincaid, is discussed throughout the volume to illustrate the themes and concepts that are essential to an understanding of ...
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Postcolonial Literature (Syllabus)
2019Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what happens in the age of globalization that follows after an age of nationalism. When capital migrates, and labour follows, whence culture?
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Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Literature Studies Series)
English Studies, 2014This is an excellent addition to Edinburgh University Press's series, Postcolonial Literature Studies.
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Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations
The Modern Language Review, 2002Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction A.Bery & P.Murray PART I: ON THE BORDER Postcolonial Studies in Ireland C.L.Innes Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness W.Maley The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border G.Smyth PART II: DIASPORAS Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Identity ...
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Postcolonial memories and lusophone literatures
European Review, 2005By focusing almost exclusively on the circumstances of British colonialism, postcolonial theory has failed to take into consideration other histories of colonization and other forms of postcoloniality. By considering a few elements from the history of Portuguese colonialism and a few lusophone texts, it is my hope to demonstrate what I consider to be a
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Can Bengali Literature be Postcolonial?
Comparative Literature Studies, 2016Abstract This paper explores the relation between Bengali literature and theories of postcolonialism. Bengali-language literature has been a significant inspiration for South Asian postcolonialist and comparativist concepts in the Anglo-American academy.
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Postcolonial Literatures in English
2019Postcoloniale Literatur bezeichnet die nationalen anglophonen Literaturen in den Amerikas, Asien, Afrika und Ozeanien (zeitweise auch New English Literatures genannt). Eine Darstellung nach Regionen ist wegen der migrantischen Bewegungen der Autor/innen allerdings nicht zu leisten.
Eckstein, Lars +3 more
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“From Postcolonial Literature to World Literature”
Journal of World Literature, 2019Abstract Starting with an analysis of the award-winning literary documentary Le Moulin, this paper argues that the film’s reconstruction of Le Moulin Poetry Society in colonial Taiwan suggests world literature as an alternative framework for studying Taiwan literature within cross-cultural contexts.
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