The Postcolonial World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: G. Singh, Jyotsna; D. Kim, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Postcolonial World offers an overview of the field while also extending critical debate in exciting new directions, providing an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 582
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315297675
• Artikelnr.: 46757895

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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,