Post Colonial Identities

Post Colonial Identities
Author: Chin Ce
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-04-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783603736

Post Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings. It is poised at substantiating the uniformity of Africa in terms of literary and cultural movements, and lending some inter-disciplinary insights on the whole body of literature through twentieth century history.

Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory

Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory
Author: Patrick Williams
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1994
Genre: Colonies
ISBN: 0231100205

Provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The many contributors include Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Anthony Giddens, Anne McClintock, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and bell hooks.

Clothing and Difference

Clothing and Difference
Author: Hildi Hendrickson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780822317913

This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times. Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning. By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development--heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation--have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation. Contributors. Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss

Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands

Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9089644547

In this book Ulbe Bosma explores the experience of immigrants in the Netherlands over sixty years and three generations. Looking at migrants from all countries, Bosma teases out how their ethnic identities are informed by Dutch culture, and how these immigrant identities evolve over time.“Fascinating, comprehensive, and historically grounded, this essential volume reveals how the colonial past continues to shape multicultural Dutch society. . . . It is an important counterpart to work on France, Britain, and Portugal.”—Andrea Smith, Lafayette College

Colonialism and Cultural Identity

Colonialism and Cultural Identity
Author: Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2000-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0791493164

This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions. Going beyond the standard isolation of mimeticism and hybridity—and criticizing Homi Bhabha's influential treatment of the former—Hogan offers a lucid, usable theoretical structure for analysis of the postcolonial phenomena, with ramifications extending beyond postcolonial literature. Developing this structure in relation to major texts by Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Buchi Emecheta, Rabindranath Tagore, and Attia Hosain, Hogan also provides crucial cultural background for understanding these and other works from the same traditions.

Violence and Belonging

Violence and Belonging
Author: Vigdis Broch-Due
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415290067

Violence and Belonging explores the formative role of violence in shaping people's identities in modern postcolonial Africa.

Colonial Effects

Colonial Effects
Author: Joseph Andoni Massad
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 023112323X

This text analyses how modern Jordanian identity was created and defined. The author studies two key institutions, the law and the military, and uses them to create an analysis of the making of modern Jordanian identity.

Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857453289

These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants’ identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The contributors explore the historical background and contemporary significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant population.

Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines

Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines
Author: Greg Bankoff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351742094

This title was first published in 2002.Presenting a fresh understanding of the construction of Post-Colonial national identity in the new context of globalization, this text looks at the dilemmas of the requirement to compete in the global economy and the political demands of human rights and cultural differences. The authors are concerned with the ways in which a modern state attempts to mould the identities of its citizens and the ways in which the myriad of identities in a multiethnic, multicultural and multi-religious population give rise to intense contradictions. This important research will have implications beyond the Filipino case and will be of great interest to a wider audience as a reference for courses on Asian studies, political science and history.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies
Author: Lisa Zunshine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199978069

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies applies developments in cognitive science to a wide range of literary texts that span multiple historical periods and numerous national literary traditions.