Atia / Houlden Popular Postcolonialisms

Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-29901-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and whether they can be employed by those advocating for change. It considers a range of fiction, film, and non-hegemonic cultural forms, engaging with topics such as environmental change, language activism, and cultural imperialism alongside analysis of figures like Tarzan and Lawrence of Arabia. Building on the work of cultural theorists, it asks whether the popular is actually where elite conceptions of the world may best be challenged. It also addresses middlebrow cultural production, which has tended to be seen as antithetical to radical traditions, asking whether this might, in fact, form an unlikely realm from which to question, critique, or challenge colonial tropes. Examining the ways in which the imprint of colonial history is in evidence (interrogated, mythologized or sublimated) within popular cultural production, this book raises a series of speculative questions exploring the interrelation of the popular and the postcolonial.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atia, Nadia

Houlden, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Nadia Atia and Kate Houlden Part I: Radical Popular 1. "When Brain Meet Book it Dread": Language Activism, Popular Postcolonialism, and the Supplementary Schools Movement in Britain Rachael Gilmour 2. Future Histories: An Activist Practice of Archiving Alda Terracciano 3. Fearing Your Neighbour and Best Friend: Canadian Resistance and Negotiations of American Imperialism through Popular Culture Jeffrey A. Brown Part II: Middlebrow 4. Before and After Deraa: Exotic Desire and the Belated Traveller in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom James Canton 5. Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie’s Life in the Middle East Nadia Atia 6. The Grey Colour Bar: Colin MacInnes’s Adventures in 1950s Multiracial Britain Alice Ferrebe 7. Tarzan the Ape Man, Screening the Aesthetics of Environmental Racism Chris Campbell Part III: Commodification of the Postcolonial 8. Subcultural Urban Fiction and the Market for Multiculturalism Sarah Ilott 9. Everything Must Go: Prize Culture, Popularity and the Postcolonial Novel Sam Goodman 10. Commodification, Publishing and the Production of "Race" Anamik Saha 11. Racing the Future: Colonial Discourse, Niche Markets, and Indigenous Resistance C. Richard King Part IV: Technology 12. Recoding Geek Culture through Postcolonial Network Narratives Wendy Knepper 13. For all the kak in Elysium: Postcolonial (De)territorialisation and Technology in Neill Blomkamp’s Films Andrew Van der Vlies 14. Monster Mines and Pipelines: Frankenstein Figures of Tar Sands Technology Mark A. McCutcheon 15. Securing "Technologies of Freedom" after the Arab Spring: Policy Entrepreneurship and Norms Consolidation Practices in Internet Freedom Promotion Muzammil M. Hussain Afterword Cora Kaplan

Über Autor(innen)

Nadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Kate Houlden is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.