Postcolonial Agency

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748642447
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Agency by : Simone Bignall

Download or read book Postcolonial Agency written by Simone Bignall and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With particular reference to Deleuze, and drawing on Spinoza, Nietzsche and Bergson, Simone Bignall attends to a minor tradition within Western philosophy to argue that a non-imperial concept of social and political agency and a postcolonial philosophy of material transformation are embedded within aspects of poststructuralist social philosophy.Postcolonial Agency complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples. It offers new conceptual scaffolding to those who have inherited the legacy of colonial privilege, and who now seek to responsibly transform this historical injustice.

Postcolonial Agency

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Publisher : Plateaus - New Directions in D
ISBN 13 : 9780748643837
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Agency by : Simone Bignall

Download or read book Postcolonial Agency written by Simone Bignall and published by Plateaus - New Directions in D. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly available in paperback, this book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples.

Postcolonial Agency

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748688544
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Agency by : Simone Bignall

Download or read book Postcolonial Agency written by Simone Bignall and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly available in paperback, this book complements and balances the attention given by postcolonial theory to the revitalisation and recognition of the agency of colonised peoples.

Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000532909
Total Pages : 213 pages
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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film by : Lokangaka Losambe

Download or read book Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic media), the author shows how African subjects have resisted enslavement and colonial domination over the past centuries, and how they have sought to reshape "global modernity". Authors and film makers whose works are examined in detail include Olaudah Equiano, Haile Gerima, Amma Asante, George Washington Williams, William Sheppard, Wole Soyinka, Dani Kouyaté, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, and Leila Aboulela. Providing a critical study of nativism, hybridity and post-hybrid conjunctive consciousness, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African and African diasporic literature, history, and cultural studies.

Tropicopolitans

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822323150
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Book Synopsis Tropicopolitans by : Srinivas Aravamudan

Download or read book Tropicopolitans written by Srinivas Aravamudan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes new relationships between literary representation and colonialism, focusing on the metaphorizing colonialist discourse of imperial power in the tropics.

The Postcolonial Subject

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136281509
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Subject by : Vivienne Jabri

Download or read book The Postcolonial Subject written by Vivienne Jabri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places the lens on postcolonial agency and resistance in a social and geopolitical context that has witnessed great transformations in international politics. What does postcolonial politics mean in a late modern context of interventions that seek to govern postcolonial populations? Drawing on historic and contemporary articulations of agency and resistance and highlighting voices from the postcolonial world, the book explores the transition from colonial modernity to the late modern postcolonial era. It shows that at each moment wherein the claim to politics is made, the postcolonial subject comes face to face with global operations of power that seek to control and govern. As seen in the Middle East and elsewhere, these operations have variously drawn on war, policing, as well as pedagogical practices geared at governing the political aspirations of target societies. The book provides a conceptualisation of postcolonial political subjectivity, discusses moments of its emergence, and exposes the security agendas that seek to govern it. Engaging with political thought, from Hannah Arendt, to Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Edward Said, among other critical and postcolonial theorists, and drawing on art, literature, and film from the postcolonial world, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical international relations, postcolonial theory, and political theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191662410
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies by : Graham Huggan

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies written by Graham Huggan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past—in its multiple manifestations— and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.

Naturalizing Africa

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107199174
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Naturalizing Africa by : Cajetan Iheka

Download or read book Naturalizing Africa written by Cajetan Iheka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa. It is a multi-disciplinary text, for both researchers and scholars of African Studies, the environment and postcolonial literature.

Making Words Matter

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Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443348
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Making Words Matter by : Ambreen Hai

Download or read book Making Words Matter written by Ambreen Hai and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure “haram” flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial child–agent, as a body/text written upon and damaged by empire? Why should E. M. Forster evoke through the Indian landscape the otherwise unspeakable racial or homosexual body in his writing? In Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Ambreen Hai argues that these writers focus self–reflectively on the unstable capacity of words to have material effects and to be censored, and that this central concern with literary agency is embedded in, indeed definitive of, colonial and postcolonial literature. Making Words Matter contends that the figure of the human body is central to the self–imagining of the text in the world because the body uniquely concretizes three dimensions of agency: it is at once the site of autonomy, instrumentality, and subjection. Hai’s work exemplifies a new trend in postcolonial studies: to combine aesthetics and politics and to offer a historically and theoretically informed mode of interpretation that is sophisticated, lucid, and accessible. This is the first study to identify and examine the rich convergence of issues and to chart their dynamic. Hai opens up the field of postcolonial literary studies to fresh questions, engaging knowledgeably with earlier scholarship and drawing on interdisciplinary theory to read both well known and lesser–known texts in a new light. It should be of interest internationally to students and scholars in a variety of fields including British, Victorian, modernist, colonial, or postcolonial literary studies, queer or cultural studies, South Asian studies, history, and anthropology.

Relocating Agency

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487768
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Relocating Agency by : Olakunle George

Download or read book Relocating Agency written by Olakunle George and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Combining a sustained critical engagement of Anglo-American theory with focused close-readings of major African writers, this book performs a long-overdue cross-fertilization of ideas among poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and African literature. The author examines several influential figures in current theory such as Habermas, Althusser, Laclau and Mouffe, as well as the theorists of postcolonialism, and offers an extended reading of the Nigerian writers D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. He argues that contrary to what the purism and voluntarism common to postcolonial theory might suggest, one lesson of African letters is that significant agency can result from acts that are blind to their determinations. For George, African letters offer an instance of "agency-in-motion," as opposed to agency in theory.

Forgotten Voices

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415949866
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Voices written by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190625139
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory by : Julian Go

Download or read book Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory written by Julian Go and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory fields by crafting a postcolonial social science. Contrary to claims that social science is incompatible with postcolonial thought, this book argues that the two are mutually beneficial, drawing upon the works of thinkers such as Franz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Go concludes with a call for a "third wave" of postcolonial thought emerging from social science and surmounting the narrow confines of disciplinary boundaries.

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844679764
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital by : Vivek Chibber

Download or read book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital written by Vivek Chibber and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber shows that its foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a historical milestone in contemporary social theory.

Engaging Modernity

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299212148
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis Engaging Modernity by : Ousseina D. Alidou

Download or read book Engaging Modernity written by Ousseina D. Alidou and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seizing the space opened by the early 1990s democratization movement, Muslim women are carving an active, influential, but often-overlooked role for themselves during a time of great change. Engaging Modernity provides a compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confronted the challenges and opportunities of the late twentieth century. Based on thorough scholarly research and extensive fieldwork—including a wealth of interviews—Ousseina Alidou’s work offers insights into the meaning of modernity for Muslim women in Niger. Mixing biography with sociological data, social theory and linguistic analysis, this is a multilayered vision of political Islam, education, popular culture, and war and its aftermath. Alidou offers a gripping look at one of the Muslim world’s most powerful untold stories. Runner-up, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association, 2007

The Agency of Organizing

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317223241
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis The Agency of Organizing by : Boris H. J. M. Brummans

Download or read book The Agency of Organizing written by Boris H. J. M. Brummans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association The Agency of Organizing explains why the notion of agency is central to understanding what organizations are, how they come into existence, continue to exist, or fade away, and how they function. Written by leading organizational communication scholars, the chapters in this edited volume present seven different theoretical perspectives on agency in the dynamics of organizing. Authors discuss how they conceptualize agency from their own perspective and how they propose to investigate agency empirically in processes of organizing by using specific methods. Through insightful case studies, they demonstrate the value of these perspectives for organizational research and practice.

Absolutely Postcolonial

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719061264
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Book Synopsis Absolutely Postcolonial by : Peter Hallward

Download or read book Absolutely Postcolonial written by Peter Hallward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available. Peter Hallward gives substantial readings of four significant writers whose work invites, to varying degrees, a singular interpretation of postcolonialism: Edouard Glissant, Charles Johnson, Mohammed Dib, and Severo Sarduy. Using a singular interpretation of postcolonialism is central to the argument this book makes, and to understanding the postcolonial paradigm.

Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230503853
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory by : P. Leonard

Download or read book Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory written by P. Leonard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationality Between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism examines and interrogates recent work on nationality in literal, critical and cultural theory. Focusing on the work of Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva, Spivak, and Bhabha, it explores how, for these theorists, the concepts of community, the new International, nomadism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, hospitality, the native informant, hybridity and postcolonial agency can provoke a different understanding of national identity.