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Postcolonial Theory And Avatar

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Author : Gautam Basu Thakur
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-11-19

Postcolonial Theory And Avatar written by Gautam Basu Thakur and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Performing Arts categories.

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The second book in the series, Postcolonial Theory and Avatar offers a concise introduction to postcolonial theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret James Cameron's high-grossing, immensely popular, and critically acclaimed 2009 film. Avatar is widely celebrated for its politically and culturally sensitive critique of the “West's” neocolonial wars and exploitation of the “global south” – an allegory for (neo)colonialism – and for highlighting the plight of tribal communities throughout the world (for instance, the case of the Dongriah Kondh tribe of India). At the same time, it has been also criticized for repeating the colonialist fantasy of saving natives doomed by imperialist aggression. Intervening in this debate over how to read the film, Basu Thakur focuses on issues of representations, discourse, subalternity, and subjectivity, all of which have been central to postcolonial theory and postcolonial analyses of culture. This history will help students and scholars who are eager to learn more about this important area of theory and bring the concepts of postcolonial theory into practice through a detailed interpretation of the film.

Postcolonial Theory And Avatar

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Postcolonial Theory And Avatar written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Avatar (Motion picture : 2009) categories.

Videogames And Postcolonialism

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Author : Souvik Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-24

Videogames And Postcolonialism written by Souvik Mukherjee and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-24 with Social Science categories.

This book focuses on the almost entirely neglected treatment of empire and colonialism in videogames. From its inception in the nineties, Game Studies has kept away from these issues despite the early popularity of videogame franchises such as Civilization and Age of Empire. This book examines the complex ways in which some videogames construct conceptions of spatiality, political systems, ethics and society that are often deeply imbued with colonialism. Moving beyond questions pertaining to European and American gaming cultures, this book addresses issues that relate to a global audience – including, especially, the millions who play videogames in the formerly colonised countries, seeking to make a timely intervention by creating a larger awareness of global cultural issues in videogame research. Addressing a major gap in Game Studies research, this book will connect to discourses of post-colonial theory at large and thereby, provide another entry-point for this new medium of digital communication into larger Humanities discourses.

The Postcolonial Epic

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Author : Sneharika Roy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
Release Date : 2019-12-12

The Postcolonial Epic written by Sneharika Roy and has been published by Routledge Chapman & Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Epic literature categories.

This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott's Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh's South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy. The work focuses on the epic genre's rich potential to articulate postimperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North/South divide. It foregrounds postcolonial developments in the genre including a shift from politics to political economy, subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the poststructuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North/South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of 'political epic', where an avowed national politics promoting a culture's 'pure' origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from 'other' cultures. An important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies.

A Critique Of Postcolonial Reason

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Author : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-28

A Critique Of Postcolonial Reason written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-28 with Social Science categories.

Are the “culture wars” over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world’s foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave.

Planetary Loves

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Author : Stephen D. Moore
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2011

Planetary Loves written by Stephen D. Moore and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Philosophy categories.

Postcolonial theology has recently emerged as a site of intense intellectual and political energy and has taken its place in the interdisciplinary field of postcolonial studies. This volume is animated by the conviction that postcolonial theology is now ready for a second, deeper phase of engagement with postcolonial theory, one that moves beyond the general to the specific. No critic has been more emblematic of the challenging and contested field of postcolonial theory than Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In this volume, the product of a theological colloquium in which Spivak herself participated, theologians and biblical scholars engage with her thought in order to catalyze a diverse range of original theological and exegetical projects. The volume opens with a "topography" of postcolonial theology and also includes other valuable introductory essays. At the center of the collection are transcriptions of two extended public dialogues with Spivak on theology and religion in general. A further dozen essays appropriate Spivak's work for theological and ethical reflection. The volume is also significant for the larger field of postcolonial studies in that it is the first to focus centrally on Spivak's immensely suggestive and vital concept of "planetarity."

Colonialism Postcolonialism

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Author : Ania Loomba
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-05-07

Colonialism Postcolonialism written by Ania Loomba and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines: key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism the relationship of colonial discourse to literature challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories issues of sexuality and colonialism, and the intersection of feminist and postcolonial thought debates about globalization and postcolonialism Recommended on courses across the academic disciplines and around the world, Colonialism/Postcolonialism has for some years been accepted as the essential introduction to a vibrant and politically charged area of literary and cultural study. With new coverage of emerging debates around globalization, this second edition will continue to serve as the ideal guide for students new to colonial discourse theory, postcolonial studies or postcolonial theory as well as a reference for advanced students and teachers.

World Literature For The Wretched Of The Earth

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Author : J. Daniel Elam
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-01

World Literature For The Wretched Of The Earth written by J. Daniel Elam and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism. Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon’s political writings and Erich Auerbach’s philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty. Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present.

Postcolonialism And Science Fiction

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Author : J. Langer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-12-15

Postcolonialism And Science Fiction written by J. Langer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first comprehensive study of the complex and developing relationship between the two areas.

Communicating Colonialism

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Author : Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
language : en
Publisher: Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
Release Date : 2014

Communicating Colonialism written by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre and has been published by Critical Intercultural Communication Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Communication and culture categories.

Uniting communication and postcolonial studies, this volume historically situates seminal essays in the field alongside new essays that aim to answer the question: «How, if at all, might communication scholars extend, or even renew, the postcolonial dialogue?» The collection highlights themes, trends, and conflicts that appear in the scholarship produced with postcolonial communication studies.