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The Postcolonial Subject in Transit

Author	: Delphine Fongang
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2018-01-19
ISBN 10	: 9781498563840
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (638 users)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Subject in Transit written by Delphine Fongang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants’ desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

The Postcolonial Subject in Transit

Author	: Delphine Fongang
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2020-09-15
ISBN 10	: 1498563856
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (56 users)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Subject in Transit written by Delphine Fongang and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the complexities of cultural hybridity in contemporary African diasporic literature. It captures migrants' desire for cultural inclusivity in disputed borders and locations of the West.

The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

Author	: Debbie Lisle
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2006-11-02
ISBN 10	: 0521867800
Pages	: 332 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing written by Debbie Lisle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging

Author	: Nicole Stamant
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2022-06-23
ISBN 10	: 9781000594577
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (945 users)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging written by Nicole Stamant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi Dericotte, Natasha Trethway, Rebecca Walker, and Emily Raboteau, this volume explores the ways in which these memoirists refute terms regarding race and simple understandings of belonging, using their contested embodied positions as sites for narration, quest, and protest. Organized chronologically, this volume will provide readers insight into memoirs from Jim Crow America to the Civil Rights period and finally those considering the post-soul (and post-Loving v. Virginia) generation. Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging interrogates these difficult spaces surrounding identity construction, encouraging new conversations surrounding visibility of mixed-race individuals and experiences for future generations. Through archives and personal testimony, this book provides a model for interweaving theoretical and personal accounts of color in American culture to encourage discussions that transgress disciplinary boundaries in the today’s dialogue.

Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-century Spanish America

Author	: Elisabeth L. Austin
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9781611484649
Pages	: 263 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (846 users)

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Download or read book Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-century Spanish America written by Elisabeth L. Austin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exemplary Ambivalence fills a critical gap within studies of 19th-century Spanish America as it explores the inconsistencies of exemplary texts and emphasizes the forms, sources, and implications of creole ideological and narrative multiplicity. This interdisciplinary study examines creole writing subjectivities and ethnic fictions within the construction of national, aesthetic, and gendered cultural identities, highlighting the dynamic relationship between exemplary discourse and readers as active interpretive agents.

Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

Author	: Rhone Fraser
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2019-12-17
ISBN 10	: 9781793603999
Pages	: 233 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child written by Rhone Fraser and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child explores the integral role of what Kobi Kambon has called the “conscious African family” in developing commercial success stories such as those of Morrison’s protagonist, Bride. Initially, Bride’s accomplishments are an extension of a superficial “cult of celebrity” which inhabits and undermines the development of meaningful interpersonal relationships until a significant literal and metaphorical journey helps her redefine success by facilitating the building of community and family.

Repetition, Recurrence, Returns

Author	: Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2019-04-29
ISBN 10	: 9781498594004
Pages	: 290 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (94 users)

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Download or read book Repetition, Recurrence, Returns written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of different forms of repetition in literature, culture, and society through studies of the function and importance of an array of repetitive phenomenon.

Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries

Author	: Mark Ledbetter
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2018-12-31
ISBN 10	: 9781498572002
Pages	: 216 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (72 users)

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Download or read book Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries written by Mark Ledbetter and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the ways we make sense of the constant changes and interchanges of webs of meaning and being that we are all connected to. Working from textual, visual, historical, and contemporary fieldworks, each chapter presents a unique exercise on challenges of thinking through the figurations of imaginaries into their aesthetic forms.

Narratives of Border Crossings

Author	: Astrid M. Fellner
Publisher	: Nomos Verlag
Release Date	: 2021-11-08
ISBN 10	: 9783748924005
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (24 users)

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Download or read book Narratives of Border Crossings written by Astrid M. Fellner and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wie kann man Grenze im Sinne einer ästhetischen Praktik verstehen? Zu einer Zeit, zu der Grenzen immer stärker ins Zentrum des Interesses kultureller Auseinandersetzungen rücken, setzen sich die Artikel dieses Sammelbandes mit englischsprachiger Literatur, Film und TV Serien auseinander, die Grenzüberschreitungen behandeln und eine narrative Poetik der kulturellen Begegnung beinhalten. Die Beitragenden setzen sich mit der Komplexität von Grenzen in kulturellen Repräsentationen auseinander und analysieren rezente Rekonzeptualisierungen von Grenzen als Prozesse und Praktiken in Grenzerzählungen. Dieses Buch spricht all diejenigen an, die sich für kulturwissenschaftliche Border Studies und Ethnic Studies interessieren. Mit Beiträgen von Pirjo Ahokas, Francesca de Lucia, Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou, Astrid M. Fellner, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Bettina Hofmann, Nadine M. Knight, Page Laws, Ludmilla Martanovschi, Janna Odabas, Silvia Schultermandl und Elke Sturm-Trigonakis.

Black Travel Writing

Author	: Isabel Kalous
Publisher	: transcript Verlag
Release Date	: 2021-11-30
ISBN 10	: 9783839459539
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (595 users)

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Download or read book Black Travel Writing written by Isabel Kalous and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent, scrutinizes the significance of Black mobility, and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions of identity, belonging, history, and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary narratives, her study outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.

Contested Borders

Author	: William J. Spurlin
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2022-06-06
ISBN 10	: 9781786600837
Pages	: 263 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Contested Borders written by William J. Spurlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Aesthetic Apprehensions

Author	: Lene M. Johannessen
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2021-01-12
ISBN 10	: 9781793633675
Pages	: 235 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (336 users)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Apprehensions written by Lene M. Johannessen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities is a scholarly conversation about encounters between habitual customs of reading and seeing and their ruptures and ossifications. In closely connected discourses, the thirteen essays collected here set out to carefully probe the ways our aesthetic immersions are obfuscated by deep-seated epistemological and ideological apprehensions by focusing on how the tropology carried by silence, absence, and false familarity crystallize to define the gaps that open up. As they figure in the subtitle of this volume, the tropes may seem straightforward enough, but a closer examination of their function in relation to social, cultural, and political assumptions and gestalts reveal troubling oversights. Aesthetic Apprehensions comes to name the attempt at capturing the outlier meanings residing in habituated receptions as well as the uneasy relations that result from aesthetic practices already in place, emphasizing the kinds of thresholds of sense and sensation which occasion rupture and creativity. Such, after all, is the promise of the threshold, of the liminal: to encourage our leap into otherness, for then to find ourselves and our sensing again, and anew in novel comprehensions.

The Postcolonial Citizen

Author	: Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
Publisher	: Peter Lang
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 1433106019
Pages	: 172 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (19 users)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Citizen written by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants «willingly» arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement from the formerly colonized spaces into the West is the vexed question of dislocation and displacement for these intellectual subjects. The Postcolonial Citizen traces how such modes of (un)belonging are represented within literary and cultural space and how migrancy, and in particular the postcolonial «intellectual» migrant, is symbolically and philosophically understood as a cultural icon of displacement in the West. Using literary texts, autobiographical narrative of displacement, and cultural criticism, this book treats the cultural reception of intellectual migrancy (particularly within America) as both an uneasy and ambiguous condition. What is timely about this book's treatment of migrancy is the current threat imposed on postcolonial writers and scholars in the United States post-9/11. The book examines and exposes the consequences of intellectually intervening into democratic ideals after the rise of the «national security state» - giving the migrant sensibility of dislocation a socio-political dimension. Thus, in dealing with the cultural reception of migrancy, The Postcolonial Citizen clearly marks the shift between pre- and post-9/11 migrant subjectivity and particularly addresses how the «third world» intellectual migrant has become synonymous with the voice of dissent and threat to the established democratic order in the United States.

The Postcolonial Politics of Development

Author	: Ilan Kapoor
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2008-02-08
ISBN 10	: 9781135976804
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (768 users)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Politics of Development written by Ilan Kapoor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a postcolonial lens to question development’s dominant cultural representations and institutional practices, investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. Ilan Kapoor examines recent development policy initiatives in such areas as ‘governance,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘participation’ to better understand and contest the production of knowledge in development - its cultural assumptions, power implications, and hegemonic politics. The volume shows how development practitioners and westernized elites/intellectuals are often complicit in this neo-colonial knowledge production. Noble gestures such as giving foreign aid or promoting participation and democracy frequently mask their institutional biases and economic and geopolitical interests, while silencing the subaltern (marginalized groups), on whose behalf they purportedly work. In response, the book argues for a radical ethical and political self-reflexivity that is vigilant to our reproduction of neo-colonialisms and amenable to public contestation of development priorities. It also underlines subaltern political strategies that can (and do) lead to greater democratic dialogue.

The Globalization of Musics in Transit

Author	: Simone Krüger
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2013-12-04
ISBN 10	: 9781136182082
Pages	: 338 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (82 users)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Musics in Transit written by Simone Krüger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization, and their examination—separately or combined—offers a useful lens on many key questions about where globalization is taking us: questions about identity and heritage, commoditization, historical and cultural representation, hybridity, authenticity and ownership, neoliberalism, inequality, diasporization, the relocation of allegiances, and more. Moreover, for the first time, these two key phenomena—tourism and migration—are studied conjointly, as well as interdisciplinary, in order to derive both parallels and contrasts. While taking diverse perspectives in embracing the contemporary musical landscape, the collection offers a range of research methods and theoretical approaches from ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, popular music studies, and media and communication. In so doing, Musics in Transit provides a rich exemplification of the ways that all forms of musical culture are becoming transnational under post-global conditions, sustained by both global markets and musics in transit, and to which both tourists and diasporic cosmopolitans make an important contribution.

The Postcolonial Jane Austen

Author	: You-Me Park
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2015-03-24
ISBN 10	: 9781134297320
Pages	: 292 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (973 users)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Jane Austen written by You-Me Park and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire * revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular context * exploring the ways in which the study of Austen's novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism. Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and always fascinating new insights into some of the most frequently studied - and best loved - novels in the English language.

Underground Europe

Author	: Luca Queirolo Palmas
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2022-11-07
ISBN 10	: 9783031161513
Pages	: 335 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (615 users)

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Download or read book Underground Europe written by Luca Queirolo Palmas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a kind of historical travelogue tracing the remnants of the 19th-century Underground Railroad in the US and Canada, including its legacies and unfulfilled heritage. It then shifts to the political present by ethnographically sketching a series of different border instances and situations, both external and within the EU space (Ventimiglia, Athens, Paris, Calais, Ceuta and Melilla, Patras, Pozzallo). Focusing on the violent harshening of local border regimes, this book nonetheless suggests a different picture, one conceived as the dynamic effect of both migrants autonomy and of the solidarity provided by local and international groups. Focusing on these specific and contested situations, it is possible to reverse the image of a main borderland into one of a space crisscrossed by many routes and passages. Reading those experiences through the historical lens of the US antebellum Underground Railroad, the book suggests the idea of an analogous "Underground Europe".