Fighting Words

Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World
2. Auflage, revidierte Ausgabe 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78997-422-5
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century

Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?

This updated edition of responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this collection explores the ways in which books have circulated anti-imperial ideas, as they themselves have circulated as objects and commodities within regional, national and transnational networks. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lombard, Erica

Davies, Dominic

Mountford, Benjamin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roynon, Tessa

Boehmer, Elleke

Collis-Buthelezi, Victoria

Daley, Patricia

Kamugisha, Aaron

Makalani, Minkah

Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène

Tuck, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: Tessa Roynon et al.: Introduction to – Preface to the Second Edition – Dominic Davies/Erica Lombard/Benjamin Mountford: Introduction: Fighting Words: Books and the Making of the Postcolonial World – Dominic Davies: From Communism to Postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s (1848) – Imaobong Umoren: Anna Julia Cooper’s (1892): Black Feminism and Human Rights – Christina Twomey: Ambivalence, Admiration and Empire: Emily Hobhouse’s (1902) – Reiland Rabaka: W. E. B. Du Bois’s (1903): Of the Veil and the Color-Line, of Double-Consciousness and Second-Sight – Priyasha Mukhopadhyay: (1913): Annie Besant’s Anticolonial Networks – Janet Remmington: Sol Plaatje’s (1916): The Politics of Belonging – Elleke Boehmer: Making Freedom: Jawaharlal Nehru’s (1936) and (1946) – Rouven Kunstmann: Joseph B. Danquah’s (1944): Anticolonial Fragments? – Johanna Richter: The Resistant Forces of Myth: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s (1949) – Ruth Bush: The Hip-Hop Legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop’s (1954) – Asha Rogers: Culture in Transition: Rajat Neogy’s (1961–1968) and the Decolonization of African Literature – John Narayan: Frantz Fanon’s (1961): The Spectre of the Third World Project – Benjamin Mountford: «The Match is in the Spinifex»: Frank Hardy’s (1968) – Michael R. Griffiths: Provenance, Identification and Confession in Sally Morgan’s (1987) – Erica Lombard: Freedom Fighter/Postcolonial Saint: The Symbolic Legacy of Nelson Mandela’s (1994) – Antoinette Burton/Isabel Hofmeyr: Afterword: Plotting a Postcolonial Course in Fifteen Chapters.

Über Autor(innen)

Dominic Davies is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford. He is the author of (Peter Lang, 2017) and (Routledge, 2019).

Erica Lombard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town. She holds a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford.

Benjamin Mountford is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He was formerly a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University (2017–18) and a Michael Brock Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.