Postcolonial Masquerades
Author: Niti Sampat Patel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1136537155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Masquerade and Postsocialism
Author: Gerald W. Creed
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011-01-24
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0253222613
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Speculative Imperialisms
Author: Susana Loza
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12-27
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781498507967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era.
Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary
Author: John Hartnett
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011-01-18
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1443828084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role which oral history plays in the documentation, representation and subsequent empowerment of neglected and long-marginalised social groups, in this case: the cultural minorities that are the Irish Travellers and the Australian Aborigines. Oral history has proved paramount in enabling such groups to document their pasts, pasts which until recently had been occluded and often-ignored. This work explores the genre that is oral history through the prism that is the construction of the ‘Other’ in society and with particular reference to two minorities whose histories share a range of similar characteristics. In examining this process, it is possible to trace the transformation of folklore and storytelling into documented historical narrative.
Post-colonial Intertexts
Author: Geetha Ramanathan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-02-27
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9004541152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An investigation about the way how contemporary post-colonial intertexts take colonialism and euro-modernism to trial.
Postcolonialism and Science Fiction
Author: J. Langer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0230356052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
Author: Awam Amkpa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1134381336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The struggles it describes unfolded in two cultural settings separated by geography, but bound by history in a common web of colonial relations spun by the imperatives of European modernity. In post-imperial England, as in its former colony Nigeria, the colonial experience not only hybridized the process of national self-definition, but also provided dramatists with the language, imagery and frame of reference to narrate the dynamics of internal wars over culture and national destiny happening within their own societies. The author examines the works of prominent twentieth-century Nigerian and English dramatists such as Wole Soyinka, Femi Osofisan, Davd Edgar and Caryl Churchill to argue that dramaturgies of resistance in the contexts of both Nigerian as well as its imperial inventor England, shared a common allegiance to what he describes as postcolonial desires. That is, the aspiration to overcome the legacies of colonialism by imagining alternative universes anchored in democratic cultural pluralism. The plays and their histories serve as filters through which Ampka illustrates the operation of what he calls 'overlapping modernities' and reconfigures the notions of power and representation, citizenship and subjectivity, colonial and anticolonial nationalisms and postcoloniality. The dramatic works studied in this book embodied a version of postcolonial aspirations that the author conceptualises as transcending temporal locations to encompass varied moments of consciousness for progressive change, whether they happened during the hey day of English imperialism in early twentieth-century Nigeria, or in response to the exclusionary politics of the Conservative Party in Thatcherite England. Theatre and Postcolonial Desires will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of drama, postcolonial and cultural studies.
The Swarming Streets
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9401200041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ranging from the turn of the nineteenth century to the last few years of the twentieth century, The Swarming Streets explores the representation of London in the last century through some of the major writers who have made it the foundation of their work. The natural companion to recent major histories and biographies of the metropolis, students and researchers alike will find major new essays on Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Storm Jameson, E. Nesbit, Julian Barnes, Iain Sinclair, Graham Swift, B. S. Johnson, and Andrea Levy and others. Drawing on a rich variety of critical approaches, each essay is distinct as well as contributing to an overall analysis of literary representations of twentieth-century London.
Masquerading Politics
Author: John Thabiti Willis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-01-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0253031451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Willis should be commended for penetrating a complex and socially guarded ritual resource to glean the hidden histories manifested therein.” —African Studies Review In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and spectators, he reveals a history of masquerade that is rich and complex. His research offers a more nuanced understanding of performance practices in Africa and their role in forging alliances, consolidating state power, incorporating immigrants, executing criminals, and projecting individual and group power on both sides of the Afro-Atlantic world. “Willis cites oral traditions, archival sources, and publications to draw attention to the link between economic development and spectacular and historically influential masquerade performances.” —Babatunde Lawal, author of The Gelede Spectacle “Important in its emphasis on the history of an art form and its specific cultural context; of interest to academic audiences as well as general readers.” —Henry Drewal, editor of Sacred Waters “Willis’s work should be a must-read for students and established scholars alike.” —Africa
The Waste Fix
Author: William G. Little
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-11
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1136746838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, William Little traces the way this obsession finds expression in powerful social forces (e.g., the drive to consume conspicuously; the Progressive-era campaign to manage scientifically; the current demand to "reduce, reuse, recycle"), and shows how such forces are governed by an idealism that links proper treatment of waste with the promise of salvation.
