Obert explores the legacies of colonialism, racial segregation, and oppression in four post-colonial cities: Belfast, Windhoek, Bridgetown, and Hanoi. She uses local literary texts to demonstrate how bodies can move against repressive power through small gestures of reclamation.
Obert explores the legacies of colonialism, racial segregation, and oppression in four post-colonial cities: Belfast, Windhoek, Bridgetown, and Hanoi. She uses local literary texts to demonstrate how bodies can move against repressive power through small gestures of reclamation.
Dr. Julia C. Obert is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. She works primarily in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, Irish literature, poetry and poetics, affect theory, and sound studies/acoustic ecology. Her first book, Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2015. Her writing has also appeared in a wide variety of Postcolonial Studies, Irish Studies, and critical theory volumes and journals.
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* Introduction: Postcolonial Psychogeographies * 1: "The grain of the city": Architectures of Subjection and Subversion in Belfast, Northern Ireland * 2: 'Ghost Spaces': The Colonial and Neocolonial Faces of Windhoek, Namibia * 3: Of Cruise Ships and Chattel Houses: Built Space in Bridgetown, Barbados * 4: The Thirty-Six Streets: Domination, Resistance, and the Power of Place in Hanoi, Vietnam * Conclusion: Stuctural Violence and Ecological Agency * Works cited
* Introduction: Postcolonial Psychogeographies * 1: "The grain of the city": Architectures of Subjection and Subversion in Belfast, Northern Ireland * 2: 'Ghost Spaces': The Colonial and Neocolonial Faces of Windhoek, Namibia * 3: Of Cruise Ships and Chattel Houses: Built Space in Bridgetown, Barbados * 4: The Thirty-Six Streets: Domination, Resistance, and the Power of Place in Hanoi, Vietnam * Conclusion: Stuctural Violence and Ecological Agency * Works cited
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