Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts

Author: Katja Sarkowsky

Publisher: Cross/Cultures

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9789004428058

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"Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts reflects that critiques of ideological formations occur within intersecting social, political, and cultural configurations where each position is in itself 'ideological' - and subject to asymmetrical power relations. Postcolonialism has become an object of critique as ideology, but postcolonial studies' highly diversified engagement with ideology remains a strong focus that exceeds Ideologiekritik. Fourteen contributors from North America, Africa, and Europe focus (I) on the complex relation between postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, and conceptualizations of ideology, (II) on ideological formations that manifest themselves in very specific postcolonial contexts, highlighting the potential continuities between colonial and postcolonial ideology, and (III) on further expanding and complicating the nexus of postcolonial ideology, from veiling as both ideological practice and individual resistance to home as ideological construct; from palimpsestic readings of colonial photography to aesthetics as ideology"--

What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say
What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say

Author: Anna Bernard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1135096112

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This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial and imperial domination. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success, not least because of the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled. Now that these insights no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the field should address beyond its general commitments. Yet the renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides an important opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility, performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform, postcommunism, and the economic rise of Asia. Finally, they address the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions (management studies, international relations, disaster studies), overlooked locations and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar Germany, the commons), and the necessity of materialist analysis for understanding both the contemporary world and world literary systems.

Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts
Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts

Author: Gita Rajan

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1995-10-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313296936

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Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures. This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book address the question of empire by exploring such constructs as nation and modernity, third-world feminisms, identity politics, the status and roles of exiles, exilic subjectivities, border intellectuals, and the presence of a postcolonial body in today's classrooms. Topics discussed include African-American literature, the nature of postcolonial texts in first-world contexts, jazz, films, and TV as examples of postcolonial discourse, and the debates surrounding biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia.

Interrogating Post-colonialism
Interrogating Post-colonialism

Author: Harish Trivedi

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Selected essays from an international conference organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in collaboration with, and at, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, from 3 to 5 Oct. 1994.

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing

Author: Jenni Ramone

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1474240070

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Introduction: Postcolonial literary studies now / Jenni Ramone -- NEW CONTEXTS. The global and the neoliberal: Indra Sinha's Animal's people, from human community to zones of indistinction / Philip Leonard -- Disaster, governance and (post-)colonial literatures / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee -- The postcolonial book market: reading and the local literary marketplace / Jenni Ramone -- Postcolonial economics: literary critiques of inequality / Melissa Kennedy -- Postcolonial studies in the digital age: an introduction / Roopika Risam -- "Another world is possible": radicalizing world literature via the postcolonial / Wendy Knepper -- NEW NARRATIVES. Postcolonial poetry / Emma Bird -- Postcolonial noncitizenship in Australian theatre and performance: twenty-first century paradigms / Emma Cox -- Graphic history: postcolonial texts and contexts / Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherji -- Postcolonial life-writing / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt -- Decolonization and postcolonial cinema in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria / Kerstin Knopf -- NEW DEBATES. Postcolonial refugees, displacement, dispossession and economies of abandonment in the capitalist world system / Stephen Morton -- Postcolonial sexualities and the intelligibility of dissidence / Humaira Saeed -- Contemporary migration and diaspora studies: current debates and the role of literature / Subha Xavier -- Postcolonial studies and African American literature / John Cullen Gruesser -- Faith, secularism and community in womanist literature from the neocolonial Caribbean / Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado -- Secularism in India: principles and policies / Manav Ratti

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form
The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

Author: Francesca Orsini

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781800641884

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This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book's essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.