Litteraturstudier: postkolonial litteratur

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India's colonial legacy, many decades after liberalization.

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers.

This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective.In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles the postcolonial hybrid experience - and how it varies in the context of questions of sex, performance and social designation. In the process, it examines the diverse performances of the anglophone Caribbean. The work includes works by Caribbean anglophone playwrights like Derek Walcott, Mustapha Matura, Michael Gikes, Dennis Scott, Trevor Rhone, Earl Lovelace and Errol John with more recent works of Pat Cumper, Rawle Gibbons and Tony Hall. The study would also engage with Carnival, calypso and chutney music, while commenting on its evolving influences over the hybrid imagination.Each section covers the dominant socio-political thematics associated with the tradition and its effect on it, followed by an analysis of contemporaneously significant literary and cultural works - plays, carnival narrative and calypso and chutney lyrics as well as the experiences of performers. From Lovelace's fictional Jestina to the real-life Drupatee, the book critically explores the marginalization of female performances while forming a hybrid identity.

"This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African, American) and gendered contexts, its material manifestations in print (newspapers, essay periodicals, reviews, magazines), visual culture, and digital forms through today's blogosphere"--

Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce ¿ all published during and influenced by the country¿s neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the country¿s field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devices contribute to producing specular subjects¿or subjects who are constituted in large measure by their use and interaction with visual technologies. In doing so, they repeatedly recur to the posthuman figure of the cyborg in order to articulate these changes; Stephen C. Tobin therefore contends that the literary cyborg becomes a discursive site for working through the problematics of sight in Mexico during the globalized era. In all, these ¿specular fictions¿ represent an exceptional tendency within literary expression¿especially within the cyberpunk genre¿that grapples with themes and issues regarding the nature of vision being increasingly mediated by technology.

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste¿a significant trait thatoverwhelmingly defines it.

The first volume devoted to Derek Walcott's lifelong engagement with the visual arts Walcott's lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott's interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but arguably he was also keen to address and (re)write an art history of which, paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean 'too' was/is 'capable'. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott's published and unpublished writing, drawings and paintings with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott's Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott's articulation of his own politics and poetics, and of the Caribbean's contributions to Atlantic and global culture. Maria Cristina Fumagalli is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex. Her publications include On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2015; 2018), Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze (2009) and The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (2001).

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness". It will be a significant discussion text for students, scholars and researchers in environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and postcolonial studies.

I "Forestillingen om de andre" retter nobelprisvinder Toni Morrison sit undersøgende blik mod de emner, som har været omdrejningspunkter for hendes forfatterskab og genstand for de seneste års politiske debat: racisme, grænser, frygt og behovet for at høre til. Med udgangspunkt i erindringer, litteratur og historie gennemlyser Morrison opførelsen af ekskluderende mure, og hvordan de andre gøres anderledes. "Forestillingen om de andre" samler seks essays i et forsøg på at forstå, hvordan og hvorfor vi er endt med at forbinde disse mure med hudfarve.Toni Morrison (1931-2019) var romanforfatter, essayist og en af det 20. århundredes væsentligste stemmer. Hun har modtaget Nobelprisen, Pulitzerprisen, og i 2012 gav Barack Obama hende præsidentens frihedsmedalje, den fornemste civile hædersbevisning i USA.Med forord af National Book Award-vinderen Ta-Nehisi Coates.I serien Antiracistiske klassikere er bøgerne "Et spørgsmål om race" af Cornel West, "Fordømte her på jorden" af Frantz Fanon og "Kvinder, race og klasse" af Angela Y. Davis udkommet. Udgivelsen er støttet af Augustinus Fonden, Statens Kunstfond, Sportsgoods Fonden og Bestles Fond

Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance of the concept in literary studies.

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era.

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence and consolidation of the metrics-driven, corporate, managerial university. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers a means of bearing witness to past cultural or political struggles, and hence of contributing to new forms of cultural memory.

Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.'Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once' Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens'A whip-smart collection' Kamila Shamsie, author of Best of FriendsWhat if we reconsidered our assumptions about how fiction should be written? And can we then apply our discoveries to both what we read and how we read? This book explores these questions and encourages us into a more inclusive conversation about storytelling, featuring:¿ Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are¿ Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can exist¿ Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn't a license we carry in our wallets¿ Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be funny¿ Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing about trauma¿ Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of refusing to translate ourselves¿ Kiese Laymon on hearing that no one wants to read the story that you want to write¿ Deepa Anappara on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of artPlus essays from Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo, Jamil Jan Kochai, Vida Cruz-Borja, Femi Kayode, Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Leila Aboulela, Myriam Gurba, Mohammed Hanif and Sharlene Teo.'This book is essential' Nikesh Shukla'Bracing and moving . . . No one interested in how we read and should read fiction can afford to miss this' Pankaj Mishra, author of Run And Hide

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist, diasporic lens.

"This book shows how South African writing can help us to understand change after apartheid. It focusses on changes in the workplace, land reform, indigenous knowledge, xenophobia, corruption and crime, arguing that literary and cultural texts have a unique and powerful capacity for illuminating these issues"--

Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction, Andrew Nyongesa investigates the role of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels.