Archive for the ‘postcolonialism’ Category
Robert Nichols, ‘Postcolonial Studies and the Discourse of Foucault: Survey of a Field of Problematization’, Foucault Studies 9 (2010). ABSTRACT: This paper presents a critical survey of the use and interpretation of the work of Michel Foucault in the field of postcolonial studies. The paper uses debates about Foucault’s legacy and his contributions (or lack […]
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Andrea Smith, ‘Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission’, American Indian Quarterly 62, 3 (2010). Abstract In Native studies, many scholars propose “decolonization” as a guiding principle for Native scholarship and activism. This work generally presumes a non-Christian framework for decolonization, because the imposition of Christianity within Native communities is understood […]
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Dominic Griffiths and Maria L.C. Prozesky, ‘The Politics of Dwelling: Being White / Being South African’, Africa Today 56, 4 (2010) Abstract This paper explores the incongruence between white South Africans’ pre- and postapartheid experiences of home and identity, of which a wave of emigration is arguably a result. Among the commonest reasons given for […]
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Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton (eds.), Terror and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Table of Contents: Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror: 1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, […]
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via Southern Perspectives A conversation between Tony Birch and Ross Gibson Two figures from the early days of the Australian colony that have fresh relevance today – an English scientist at the founding of Sydney and an indigenous leader at the birth of Melbourne. William Dawes arrived on the First Fleet as the official astronomer. […]
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Some recent essays from borderlands I’ve been spruiking here contribute to a recent special issue of borderlands. Here is the abstract to the editors’ introduction: As Stuart Hall, following both Franz Fanon and Albert Memmi, has explained, identity is deeply imbricated with colonialism both for the coloniser and the colonised. Their cultures meet in what […]
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Eóin Flannery, ‘Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish postcolonial criticism and the Utopian impulse’, Textual Practice 24, 3 (2010). No abstract, so here is the intro: The idioms and the methodologies of ‘Utopia’ have always been explicit and implicit in both projects of colonial acquisition and expansion, and in the differential projects of anti-colonial theory and […]
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An older article I stumbled across today: John Morrissey, ‘Geography Militant: Resistance and the Essentialisation of Identity in Colonial Ireland’, Irish Geography 37, 2 (2004). Abstract In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an […]
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Victoria Kuttainen, Unsettling Stories: Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite (Cambridge Scholars Press, Feb 2010). The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial writing on settler terrain. […]
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