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  1. Fighting words
    fifteen books that shaped the postcolonial world
    Contributor: Davies, Dominic (Publisher); Lombard, Erica (Publisher); Mountford, Benjamin (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford

    "Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    "Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world? Fighting Words responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this collection explores the ways in which books have circulated anti-imperial ideas, as they themselves have circulated as objects and commodities within regional, national and transnational networks. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Davies, Dominic (Publisher); Lombard, Erica (Publisher); Mountford, Benjamin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787070752; 9781789974287
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    RVK Categories: EC 1878
    Edition: Second edition
    Series: Race and resistance across borders in the long the twentieth century ; 1
    Subjects: Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Literaturtheorie; Buch; Antikolonialismus; Postkolonialismus
    Other subjects: Books and reading / Political aspects / History / 20th century; Books and reading / Political aspects / History / 19th century; Books and reading / Social aspects / History / 20th century; Books and reading / Social aspects / History / 19th century; Postcolonialism / Historiography; Imperialism / Historiography; Books / History / 20th century; Books / History / 19th century; Books; Books and reading / Political aspects; Books and reading / Social aspects; Imperialism / Historiography; Postcolonialism / Historiography; 1800-1999; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (282 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    From Communism to postcapitalism : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist manifesto (1848) / Dominic Davies -- Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South (1892) : Black feminism and human rights / Imaobong Umoren -- Emily Hobhouse, The brunt of the war and where it fell (1902) / Christina Twomey -- W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk (1903) : of the veil and the colour-line, of double-consciousness and second-sight / Reiland Rabaka -- Wake up, India : a plea for social reform (1913) : Annie Besant's anti-colonial networks / Priyasha Mukhopadhyay -- Sol Plaatje's Native life in South Africa (1916) : the politics of belonging / Janet Remmington -- Making freedom : Jawaharlal Nehru's An autobiography (1936) and The discovery of India (1946) / Elleke Boehmer -- Joseph B. Danquah's The Akan doctrine of God (1944) : anticolonial fragments? / Rouven Kunstmann -- The resistant forces of myth : Miguel Ángel Asturias's Men of maize (1949) / Johanna Richter -- The hip-hop legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop's Nations nègres et culture (1954) / Ruth Bush -- Culture in transition : Rajat Neogy's Transition (1961-8) and the decolonization of African literature / Asha Rogers -- Frantz Fanon's The wretched of the earth (1961) : the spectre of the third world project / John Narayan -- The match is in the spinifex : Frank Hardy, The unlucky Australians (1968) / Benjamin Mountford -- Provenance, identification and confession in Sally Morgan's My place (1987) / Michael R. Griffiths -- Freedom fighter/postcolonial saint : the symbolic legacy of Nelson Mandela's Long walk to freedom (1994) / Erica Lombard
  2. Fighting words
    fifteen books that shaped the postcolonial world
    Contributor: Davies, Dominic (Publisher); Lombard, Erica (Publisher); Mountford, Benjamin (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford

    "Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Europa-Universität Viadrina, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world? Fighting Words responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this collection explores the ways in which books have circulated anti-imperial ideas, as they themselves have circulated as objects and commodities within regional, national and transnational networks. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Davies, Dominic (Publisher); Lombard, Erica (Publisher); Mountford, Benjamin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781787070752; 9781789974287
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: EC 1878
    Edition: Second edition
    Series: Race and resistance across borders in the long the twentieth century ; 1
    Subjects: Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Literaturtheorie; Buch; Antikolonialismus; Postkolonialismus
    Other subjects: Books and reading / Political aspects / History / 20th century; Books and reading / Political aspects / History / 19th century; Books and reading / Social aspects / History / 20th century; Books and reading / Social aspects / History / 19th century; Postcolonialism / Historiography; Imperialism / Historiography; Books / History / 20th century; Books / History / 19th century; Books; Books and reading / Political aspects; Books and reading / Social aspects; Imperialism / Historiography; Postcolonialism / Historiography; 1800-1999; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (282 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    From Communism to postcapitalism : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist manifesto (1848) / Dominic Davies -- Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South (1892) : Black feminism and human rights / Imaobong Umoren -- Emily Hobhouse, The brunt of the war and where it fell (1902) / Christina Twomey -- W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk (1903) : of the veil and the colour-line, of double-consciousness and second-sight / Reiland Rabaka -- Wake up, India : a plea for social reform (1913) : Annie Besant's anti-colonial networks / Priyasha Mukhopadhyay -- Sol Plaatje's Native life in South Africa (1916) : the politics of belonging / Janet Remmington -- Making freedom : Jawaharlal Nehru's An autobiography (1936) and The discovery of India (1946) / Elleke Boehmer -- Joseph B. Danquah's The Akan doctrine of God (1944) : anticolonial fragments? / Rouven Kunstmann -- The resistant forces of myth : Miguel Ángel Asturias's Men of maize (1949) / Johanna Richter -- The hip-hop legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop's Nations nègres et culture (1954) / Ruth Bush -- Culture in transition : Rajat Neogy's Transition (1961-8) and the decolonization of African literature / Asha Rogers -- Frantz Fanon's The wretched of the earth (1961) : the spectre of the third world project / John Narayan -- The match is in the spinifex : Frank Hardy, The unlucky Australians (1968) / Benjamin Mountford -- Provenance, identification and confession in Sally Morgan's My place (1987) / Michael R. Griffiths -- Freedom fighter/postcolonial saint : the symbolic legacy of Nelson Mandela's Long walk to freedom (1994) / Erica Lombard
  3. Fighting words
    fifteen books that shaped the postcolonial world
    Contributor: Davies, Dominic (Herausgeber); Lombard, Erica (Herausgeber); Mountford, Benjamin (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
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    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?Fighting Words responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this collection explores the ways in which books have circulated anti-imperial ideas, as they themselves have circulated as objects and commodities within regional, national and transnational networks. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Davies, Dominic (Herausgeber); Lombard, Erica (Herausgeber); Mountford, Benjamin (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781789974270; 9781789974287; 9781789974294
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: EC 1878
    DDC Categories: 800; 020
    Edition: Revised paperback edition
    Series: Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century ; volume 1
    Subjects: Postkolonialismus; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 279 Seiten), Illustrationen
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