Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Poddar, Prem; Jensen, Lars; Patke, Rajeev S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Radical, intrepid, compendious, /A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures/, goes far toward restoring 'postcolonialism' to its historical premises by resituating that imperial project in its much changed and still controversial cartographies. It is Marlow's map of the 'heart of darkness' drastically redrawn: what was once the 'vast amount of red,' a 'deuce of a lot of blue,' a 'little green,' those 'smears of orange,' and the 'purple patch,' is here become a dense kaleidoscope that will of necessity rechart the itinerary of students and critical travellers across and around 'continental Europe and its empires.'Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin'The /Companion/ is unique in that it provides a wealth of analysis and information about all European continental powers and their colonies and presents the entire assembly in a wonderful mis-en-scene. It is a 'true' companion that invites trans-cultural readings of trans-cultural literatures.'Walter Mignolo, Duke UniversityThe first reference work to the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures stemming from the empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain as well as Latin America and the Philippines Written by recognised scholars the entries cover major events, ideas, movements and figures in postcolonial histories. They cover European overseas exploration, settlement, colonisation and decolonisation and highlight the relevance of colonial histories to the cultural, social, political and literary formations of contemporary postcolonial societies and nations. Each entry provides a succinct account of an event or topic, as well as suggestions for further reading in literary works and histories.By outlining the historical contexts of postcolonial literatures, the Companion provides an important key to understanding complex contemporary debates about race, colonialism and neo-colonialism, politics, economics, culture and

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748650972
• Artikelnr.: 56904364

Autorenporträt

Prem Poddar is Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is the author of Violent Civilities (2002) and has edited Translating Nations (2000) and Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (2007). Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Lars Jensen is Lecturer at Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Walter Mignolo
INTRODUCTION, Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen
Acknowledgements
General editors & section editors
List of maps
Map 1: World Colonisation 1550
A selective chronology
Map 2: World Colonisation 1914
BELGIUM & ITS COLONIES
Map 3: The Belgian Colonial Empire
Introduction, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick)
Anthropology & Ethnography, Maarten Couttenier (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Anticolonial Resistance, Carina Yervasi (Swarthmore College)
Belgian Imperial Policy, Martin Shipway (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Belgian Missionaries in the Congo, Pascale Stacey (Liverpool University)
Colonial & Postcolonial Exhibitions, Sabine Cornélis (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Brussels)
Comics & the Belgian Congo, Nancy Hunt (Michigan University)
Evolués, Priscilla Ringrose (Trondheim University)
Historiography: The Belgian Congo, Pascale Stacey & Victoria Reid (Liverpool University)
Kimbangu, Anne Mélice (Liège University)
Leopold II, Lieve Spaas (Kingston University, London)
Missions in the Danish-Norwegian colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University)
Mobutu, Priscilla Appama (Universit de Franche-Comt, Besanon, France)
Narratives of Empire: Postcolonial Congo, Pierre Halen (Paul Verlaine-Metz University)
The Red Rubber Scandal, Aisling Campbell (Liverpool University)
The Rwanda Genocide of the 1990s, Colette Braeckman (Brussels)
André Ryckmans, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University)
Pierre Ryckmans, Thérèse Dé Raedt (Utah University)
The Scramble for the Congo, Colette Braeckman (Brussels)
Tippu Tip, Fiona Barclay (University of Glasgow)
DENMARK AND ITS COLONIES
Map 4: Denmark and Norway: Colonial Possessions c.1800
Introduction, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University)
Abolition of Slavery, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University)
Anthropology, Greenland and Colonialism, Ole Høiris (Aarhus University)
Charter Companies, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University)
Colonial Exhibitions, Cheralyn Mealor (Aar