Postcolonial Agency
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Postcolonial Agency
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Author : Simone Bignall
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-07
Postcolonial Agency written by Simone Bignall and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-07 with Political Science categories.
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 In African And Diasporic Literature And Film
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Author : Lokangaka Losambe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-01-31
Postcolonial Agency In African And Diasporic Literature And Film written by Lokangaka Losambe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Postcolonial Agency
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Author : Simone Bignall
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06
Postcolonial Agency written by Simone Bignall and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with Political Science categories.
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.
Making Words Matter
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Author : Ambreen Hai
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-15
Making Words Matter written by Ambreen Hai and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Postcolonial Subjectivities In Africa
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Author : Pnina Werbner
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2002
Postcolonial Subjectivities In Africa written by Pnina Werbner and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This is the third volume in a trilogy on identity, memory and subjectivity. Contributors to the book share an ambition to combine personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans. Their essays aim to forge alliances between patient local scholarship and adventurous theoretical speculation that should inspire new research and caution against bland generalizations about African marginality.
Relocating Agency
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Author : Olakunle George
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Relocating Agency written by Olakunle George and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A postmodernist metacritical look at theories of African literature.
Forgotten Voices
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Author : Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005
Forgotten Voices written by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Libya categories.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Postcolonial Subject
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Author : Vivienne Jabri
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-09-10
The Postcolonial Subject written by Vivienne Jabri and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-10 with Political Science categories.
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.
Tropicopolitans
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Author : Srinivas Aravamudan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1999
Tropicopolitans written by Srinivas Aravamudan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exposes new relationships between literary representation and colonialism, focusing on the metaphorizing colonialist discourse of imperial power in the tropics.
Agamben And Colonialism
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Author : Marcelo Svirsky
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-11
Agamben And Colonialism written by Marcelo Svirsky and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-11 with Philosophy categories.
12 new essays evaluating Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.Agamben's theories of the 'state of exception' and 'bare life' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world.