Postcolonialism Revisited

Postcolonialism Revisited
Author: Kirsti Bohata
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708322360

Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted to provide an illuminating exploration of Welsh writing in English, while simultaneously considering the challenges that such writing might offer to the field of postcolonial theory. In addition to dealing with a range of theorists in the field, including Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Charlotte Williams and Homi Bhabha, the book looks at how Wales has been constructed as a colonized nation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing. Themed chapters include the treatment of place in English- and Welsh-language writing of the 1950s and 1960s; hybridity and assimilation; the position of the Welsh as 'outsiders inside'; the women's movement in Wales during the fin de siecle; and postcolonial understanding of linguistic power struggles. A variety of forgotten writers have been unearthed in this study and are considered alongside more famous names such as R. S. Thomas, Margiad Evans, Arthur Machen, Christopher Meredith and Rhys Davies. Written in an accessible style, Postcolonialism Revisited will be required reading for those involved in the study of Welsh writing in English.

Postcolonialism Revisited

Postcolonialism Revisited
Author: Kirsti Bohata
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783163550

Postcolonialism Revisited is a ground-breaking book, the first to explore and analyse Anglophone Welsh writing, both literary and otherwise, in the context of contemporary thinking about colonial and post-colonial cultures. Kirsti Bohata considers how far the paradigms of postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted to provide an illuminating exploration of Welsh writing in English, while simultaneously considering the challenges that such writing might offer to the field of postcolonial theory.

Creoles, Revisited

Creoles, Revisited
Author: Nicholas G. Faraclas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2021-05-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000386333

This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact. The authors bring together archival sources to challenge dominant linguistic theory and practice and engage issues of power, positioning marginalized indigenous peoples as the center of, and vital agents in, these languages’ formation and development. Students in language contact, pidgins and creoles, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies courses—and scholars across many disciplines—will benefit from this book and be convinced of the importance of understanding creoles and creolization.

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Author: S. Brouillette
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007-05-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230288170

Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace.

Postcolonialism and Political Theory

Postcolonialism and Political Theory
Author: Nalini Persram
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780739116678

Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity--largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity--constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that re-examine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique the limits of postcolonial theory and its claim to celebrate diversity; and that complicate the notion of postcolonial politics within settler societies that continue to practice exile of the indigenous. Postcolonialism and Political Theory is an ideal book for graduate and advanced undergraduate level study and for those working both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily, both inside and outside academia.

Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: David A. Jasen
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826400469

Guide To The often complex area of postcolonial theory and literature from its historical origins to contemporary critical thinking and issues.

Colonialism-postcolonialism

Colonialism-postcolonialism
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415128087

This accessible introduction explores the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-colonial studies. Ania Loomba examines the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism, the relationship of colonial discourse to literature, challenges to colonialism, and recent developments in post-colonial theories and histories in the writings of contemporary theorists, including Edward Said, Abdul JanMohamed, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Loomba also looks at how sexuality is insinuated in the texts of colonialism, and how contemporary feminist ideas and concepts intersect with those of post-colonialist thought.

Deconstruction and the Postcolonial

Deconstruction and the Postcolonial
Author: Michael Syrotinski
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1846310563

Postcolonial studies, and the rich body of theory that it applies in its analyses, has transformed and unsettled the ways in which, across a whole range of disciplines, we think about notions such as subjectivity, national identity, globalization, history, language, literature or international politics. Until recently, the emphasis of the groundbreaking work being carried out in these areas has been almost exclusively within an Anglophone context, but increasingly the focus of postcolonial studies is shifting to a more comparative approach. One of the most intriguing developments in this shift.

Postcolonialism: a Very Short Introduction

Postcolonialism: a Very Short Introduction
Author: Robert J. C. Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198856830

Since the 1960s, many people around the world have challenged the idea that western perspectives are the only ones that count. This book examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and showing the ways in which the histories and the cultures of the world can be rethought in new, different and productive directions.

Sugarlandia Revisited

Sugarlandia Revisited
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781845453169

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar's global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the nature of colonial societies. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era.