Postcolonial Studies and Beyond
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9780822335238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies.
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9780822335238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary volume attempts to expand the temporal and geographic agenda of postcolonial studies.
Author: Epifanio San Juan
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780333913772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment post colonialism, this work posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of colour as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony. It questions the various cliches that stereotype third world cultures.
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher:
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9788178241456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Beissinger
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: 2002-01-24
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781930365087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-09-12
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0822349574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIVA collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies./div
Author: Srirupa Roy
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-05-28
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0822389916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation-state is consolidated not, as many have asserted, by efforts to imagine a shared cultural community, but rather by the production of a recognizable and authoritative identity for the state. This project—of making the state the entity identified as the nation’s authoritative representative—emphasizes the natural cultural diversity of the nation and upholds the state as the sole unifier or manager of the “naturally” fragmented nation; the state is unified through diversity. Roy considers several different ways that identification with the Indian nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s. She looks at how the Films Division of India, a state-owned documentary and newsreel production agency, allowed national audiences to “see the state”; how the “unity in diversity” formation of nationhood was reinforced in commemorations of India’s annual Republic Day; and how the government produced a policy discourse claiming that scientific development was the ultimate national need and the most pressing priority for the state to address. She also analyzes the fate of the steel towns—industrial townships built to house the workers of nationalized steel plants—which were upheld as the exemplary national spaces of the new India. By prioritizing the role of actual manifestations of and encounters with the state, Roy moves beyond theories of nationalism and state formation based on collective belief.
Author: Nukhbah Taj Langah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-07-28
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1000422577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.
Author: Deepti Misri
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0252096819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Communal violence, ethnonationalist insurgencies, terrorism, and state violence have marred the Indian natio- state since its inception. These phenomena frequently intersect with prevailing forms of gendered violence complicated by caste, religion, regional identity, and class within communities. Deepti Misri shows how Partition began a history of politicized animosity associated with the differing ideas of ""India"" held by communities and in regions on one hand, and by the political-military Indian state on the other. She moves beyond that formative national event, however, in order to examine other forms of gendered violence in the postcolonial life of the nation, including custodial rape, public stripping, deturbanning, and enforced disappearances. Assembling literary, historiographic, performative, and visual representations of gendered violence against women and men, Misri establishes that cultural expressions do not just follow violence but determine its very contours, and interrogates the gendered scripts underwriting the violence originating in the contested visions of what ""India"" means. Ambitious and ranging across disciplines, Beyond Partition offers both an overview of and nuanced new perspectives on the ways caste, identity, and class complicate representations of violence, and how such representations shape our understandings of both violence and India.
Author: Jane Hiddleston
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2020-10-23
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1789622603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Abdelkébir Khatibi is one of the most important voices to emerge from North Africa in postcolonial studies. This book is the first to offer a thoroughgoing analysis in English of all aspects of his multifaceted thought, as it ranges from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy, and from decolonisation to interculturality.