The Postcolonial World

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17943-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1026 g

Reihe: Routledge Worlds

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine:

- Affective, Postcolonial Histories

- Postcolonial Desires

- Religious Imaginings

- Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices

- Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts

- Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities

- Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies

- Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism

The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

G. Singh, Jyotsna

D. Kim, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Jyotsna G. Singh

Part 1: Affective, Postcolonial Histories

1. On Postcolonial Happiness, Ananya Jahanara Kabir

2. On Not Closing the Loop: Empathy, Ethics, and Transcultural Witnessing, Stef Craps

3. Affective Histories and Partition Narratives in Postcolonial South Asia: Qurratulain Hyder’s Sita Betrayed, Rituparna Mitra

4. The Unsettled Space of Interlocking Kurdish-Jewish Identities in Samir Naqqash’s Shlomo Alkurdi, Myself and Time (2004), Amel Mahmoud

Part 2: Postcolonial Desires

5. Queers In-between: Globalizing Sexualities, Local Resistances, Abdulhamit Arvas

6. From Morality to Desire: The Role of the Westernized Woman in Post-Independence Pakistani Cinema, Sadaf Ahmad

7. Queer Camouflage as Survival, Presence, and Expressive Capital in the Postcolonial Artwork of Kiam Marcelo Junio, Jan Bernabe

8. Fictive Identities on a Diasporic Ethnic Stage: A "Modern Girl" Consumed in Dominican Beauty Pageants, Danny Mendez

Part 3: Religious Imaginings

9. "Postcolonial Remains": Critical Religion, Postcolonial Theory, and Deconstructing the Secular-Religious Binary, Timothy Fitzgerald

10. Gods in a Democracy: State of Nature, Postcolonial Politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas, Milinda Banerjee

11. Imagining the "Muslim" Woman: Religious Movements and Constructions of Gender in the Subcontinent, Meryem Zaman

Part 4: Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices

12. Re-Presenting Postcolonial Zanzibar in Contested Literary, Cultural, and Political Geographies, Garth Myers

13. Transcolonial Cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi Stage Palestine in France-Algeria, Olivia Harrison

14. Virtual Encounters in Postcolonial Spaces: Nollywood Movies about Mobile Telephony,

Über Autor(innen)

Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University, USA.

David D. Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California Los Angeles, USA.