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  1. Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings
    Author: Ben-Messahel, Salhia
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Brussels ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term "postcolonial" through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the... more

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    The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term "postcolonial" through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on colonialist discourses within a postmodern and globalised world. Identity-formation, cultural space, indigeneity, colonial perspectives and anti-colonial struggles suggest that former imperial (and often marginalized) colonies/territories operate as decentring spaces, becoming dynamic postcolonial centres. The consequences of colonial history in postcolonial environments in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the South Pacific regions are being analysed. This shows that postcolonial subjectivities call for a reconceptualization of the nation as political agency. The essays interrogate the social and psychological effects of colonialism, the political subjugation and instrumentalisation of colonial pasts and the perception of the self through the colonizer’s eyes, that may still surface in discourse on identity and belonging. The "postcolonial" is then a floating concept in a global environment where some individuals still experience a neo-colonial condition while others dismiss the colonial past but may yet re-enact colonial practices. The volume shows that the extension of a colonial centre, often raised in postcolonial criticism, is synonymous with the decentring of identity, and that the re-conceptualization of a Diasporic condition initiates a new postcolonial moment based in translation and on a new modernity.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Castejon, Vanessa
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9782807600683
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    DDC Categories: 320; 800
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Series: Comparatisme et Société / Comparatism and Society ; 36
    Subjects: Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Postkolonialismus
    Other subjects: Gunesekera, Romesh (1954-): Reef
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings
    Cultures and Discourses on the Edge
    Contributor: Ben-Messahel, Salhia (Herausgeber); Castejon, Vanessa (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales, Brussels

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  3. Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings
    Cultures and Discourses on the Edge
    Contributor: Ben-Messahel, Salhia (Publisher); Castejon, Vanessa (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales, Brussels

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Ben-Messahel, Salhia (Publisher); Castejon, Vanessa (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9782807600683
    Other identifier:
    9782807600683
    RVK Categories: EC 1878
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Postkoloniale Literatur; Kultur; Postkolonialismus
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten)
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    The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term "postcolonial" through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on colonialist discourses within a postmodern and globalised world. Identity-formation, cultural space, indigeneity, colonial perspectives and anti-colonial struggles suggest that former imperial (and often marginalized) colonies/territories operate as decentring spaces, becoming dynamic postcolonial centres. The consequences of colonial history in postcolonial environments in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the South Pacific regions are being analysed. This shows that postcolonial subjectivities call for a reconceptualization of the nation as political agency. The essays interrogate the social and psychological effects of colonialism, the political subjugation and instrumentalisation of colonial pasts and the perception of the self through the colonizer's eyes, that may still surface in discourse on identity and belonging. The "postcolonial" is then a floating concept in a global environment where some individuals still experience a neo-colonial condition while others dismiss the colonial past but may yet re-enact colonial practices. The volume shows that the extension of a colonial centre, often raised in postcolonial criticism, is synonymous with the decentring of identity, and that the re-conceptualization of a Diasporic condition initiates a new postcolonial moment based in translation and on a new modernity