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Postcolonial Audiences

Author : Bethan Benwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136454381
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Audiences written by Bethan Benwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial – from the notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of reading.

Meanings of Audiences

Author : Richard Butsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135043043
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Meanings of Audiences written by Richard Butsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, while powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance. This ground-breaking collection offers original, empirical studies of discourses about audiences by bringing together a genuinely international range of work. With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and regulation in different yet overlapping ways according to specific socio-historical contexts. Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book is a valuable and original contribution to media and communication studies. It will be particularly useful to those studying audiences and international media.

Anti-racism and Multiculturalism

Author : Mark Alleyne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351531425
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Anti-racism and Multiculturalism written by Mark Alleyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All scholarly books are engagements with the existing literature, often the published scholarly work of one established discipline. This book originated with modest objectives, to produce a work that would be in conversation with the literature of international relations even though not of relevance only to that field. The professed goal of international relations is international peace. The ethical lens of pondering the best means to achieve world peace is used to filter media content in the field of multiculturalism and anti-racism. Although there has been little work on the impact of racial difference on the contours of contemporary international order, there has been a sizeable body of research intended to abolish the credibility of pseudo-scientific racism. Such racism has provided the ideological foundation and justification for imperialism, colonialism, the holocaust, and apartheid. Race has been debunked as a myth. Because of this, racism - the ideology bred of human classification according to racial difference - has been found to be intellectually and morally barren. But the need to communicate egalitarian and scientific sentiments remains. The contributors to this volume consider five questions: How does the literature on antiracism improve our understanding of conflict resolution? How does the analysis of the media's role in racist and anti-racist discourses improve the process of theorizing on hate and war propaganda? How can research on anti-racist discourse improve UN peacekeeping? What implications does this subject have for theory-building and cultural diversity? How and why should the literature on anti-racism expand research in international relations? This is a unique, worthwhile framework for cross-disciplinary research in race and intellectual consensus and conflict.

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

Author : Anna Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136228152
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective written by Anna Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir Hammad, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized trajectory in gender-consciousness under development in the Palestinian imagination from the start of the twentieth century. The book explores how these works resonate with questions of power, identity, nation, resistance, and self-representation in the Palestinian imagination more broadly, and asks how these gender-conscious narratives transform our understanding of Palestine's struggle for postcoloniality. Working at the cusp of postcolonial, feminist and cultural enquiry, Ball seeks to open up vital new directions in the interdisciplinary study of Palestine.

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

Author : John Clement Ball
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415965934
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Satire and the Postcolonial Novel written by John Clement Ball and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction

Author : Anjali Pandey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137340363
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction written by Anjali Pandey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction, making a case for an emerging transparent-turn in which momentary multilingualism works in the service of long-term monolingualism.

The Transnational in Literary Studies

Author : Kai Wiegandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110688727
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Transnational in Literary Studies by : Kai Wiegandt

Download or read book The Transnational in Literary Studies written by Kai Wiegandt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

Mapping Indigenous Presence

Author : Kathryn W. Shanley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531528
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Indigenous Presence written by Kathryn W. Shanley and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Indigenous Presence presents a set of comparativeIndigenous studies essays with contemporary perspectives, attesting tothe importance of the roles Indigenous people have played as overseersof their own lands and resources, as creators of their own culturalrichness, and as political entities capable of governing themselves.This interdisciplinary collection explores the Indigenous experience ofS�mi peoples of Norway and Native Americans of Montana in theirrespective contexts--yet they are in many ways distinctlydifferent within the body politic of their respective countries.Although they share similarities as Indigenous peoples withinnation-states and inhabit somewhat similar geographies, their culturesand histories differ significantly.

Curious about George

Author : Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496837355
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Curious about George written by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would later become one of the most celebrated books in children’s literature—Curious George. Since his debut in 1941, the mischievous icon has only grown in popularity. After being captured in Africa by the Man in the Yellow Hat and taken to live in the big city’s zoo, Curious George became a symbol of curiosity, adventure, and exploration. In Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism, author Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre argues that the beloved character also performs within a narrative of racism, colonialism, and heroism. Using theories of colonial and rhetorical studies to explain why cultural icons like Curious George are able to avoid criticism, Schwartz-DuPre investigates the ways these characters operate as capacious figures, embodying and circulating the narratives that construct them, and effectively argues that discourses about George provide a rich training ground for children to learn US citizenship and become innocent supporters of colonial American exceptionalism. By drawing on postcolonial theory, children’s criticisms, science and technology studies, and nostalgia, Schwartz-DuPre’s critical reading explains the dismissal of the monkey’s 1941 abduction from Africa and enslavement in the US, described in the first book, by illuminating two powerful roles he currently holds: essential STEM ambassador at a time when science and technology is central to global competitiveness and as a World War II refugee who offers a “deficient” version of the Holocaust while performing model US immigrant. Curious George’s twin heroic roles highlight racist science and an Americanized Holocaust narrative. By situating George as a representation of enslaved Africans and Holocaust refugees, Curious about George illuminates the danger of contemporary zero-sum identity politics, the colonization of marginalized identities, and racist knowledge production. Importantly, it demonstrates the ways in which popular culture can be harnessed both to promote colonial benevolence and to present possibilities for resistance.

Contemporary Indian English Literature

Author : Cecile Sandten
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823395912
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Indian English Literature written by Cecile Sandten and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Indian English Literature focuses on the recent history of Indian literature in English since the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), a watershed moment for Indian writing in English in the global literary landscape. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of poets, novelists, short fiction writers and dramatists who have notably contributed to the proliferation of Indian literature in English from the late 20th century to the present. The volume provides an introduction to current developments in Indian English literature and explains general ideas, as well as the specific features and styles of selected writers from this wide spectrum. It addresses students working in this field at university level, and includes thorough reading lists and study questions to encourage students to read, reflect on and write about Indian English literature critically.

A Companion to the Classical Tradition

Author : Craig W. Kallendorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444334166
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Classical Tradition written by Craig W. Kallendorf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory

The Postcolonial Exotic

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134576978
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Exotic written by Graham Huggan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. Global in scope, the book takes in everything from: * the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series * from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system *from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'. This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.

J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism

Author : K. Hallemeier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137346531
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism written by K. Hallemeier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature.

Post-colonial Cultures in France

Author : Alec G. Hargreaves
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415144872
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (448 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-colonial Cultures in France by : Alec G. Hargreaves

Download or read book Post-colonial Cultures in France written by Alec G. Hargreaves and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Author : Mr Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479021
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean International Yearbook written by Mr Jonathan Gil Harris and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoring Shakespearean scholar Michael Neill, this eleventh issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook brings together essays by a diverse group of writers, to examine Neill's extraordinary body of work, employing his many analyses of place as points of departure for new critical investigations of Shakespeare and Renaissance culture. It also challenges us to think about the conception of place implicit in the "International" of the Yearbook's title: the violence as well as calmness, the settling and unsettling, that has worked to produce—and still works to produce—the "global." Many of the essays move out of early modern England, whether spatially (journeying to Ireland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Sudan, and New Zealand) or temporally (traveling to 20th- and 21st-century reproductions, rewritings, or reappropriations of Shakespeare and other texts). The volume concludes with an Afterword by Michael Neill. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies across the world. Among the contributors to this volume are Shakespearean scholars from Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, and the US.

Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa

Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781919876061
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.

Imperial Encore

Author : Caroline Ritter
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520375939
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Encore written by Caroline Ritter and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain’s imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses. Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980s—the half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutions—the British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Press—integrated their work with British imperial aims, and continued this project well after the end of formal British rule. Tracing these institutions and the media they produced through the tumultuous period of decolonization and its aftermath, Ritter offers the first account of the global footprint of British cultural imperialism.