A.G. Noorani (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195670561
- eISBN:
- 9780199080618
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195670561.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This book presents important documents recording the reactions of Muslims in the aftermath of the Independence and Partition of India, and in the subsequent fifty years. Besides key political ...
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This book presents important documents recording the reactions of Muslims in the aftermath of the Independence and Partition of India, and in the subsequent fifty years. Besides key political developments, documents on topics such as Hindu revivalism and Muslim responses, the Babri Masjid question, the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Shah Bano case, Rajiv Gandhi’s discussions with Muslim leaders and the issue of personal laws, provide insights into Muslim participation in post-Independence polity and society. This book will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history and politics, journalists, and general readers.Less
This book presents important documents recording the reactions of Muslims in the aftermath of the Independence and Partition of India, and in the subsequent fifty years. Besides key political developments, documents on topics such as Hindu revivalism and Muslim responses, the Babri Masjid question, the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Shah Bano case, Rajiv Gandhi’s discussions with Muslim leaders and the issue of personal laws, provide insights into Muslim participation in post-Independence polity and society. This book will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history and politics, journalists, and general readers.
Gideon Shimoni
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195103311
- eISBN:
- 9780199854585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195103311.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter focuses on the post-independence or “residual” ideology of Zionism as an issue internal to the Jewish ethnic entity. The term “ideology” here refers to an action-oriented set of ideas ...
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This chapter focuses on the post-independence or “residual” ideology of Zionism as an issue internal to the Jewish ethnic entity. The term “ideology” here refers to an action-oriented set of ideas relating to a given social reality. In its pre-independence stage, the common denominator of all Zionist ideologies was the proposition that a fundamental defect inhered in the Jewish situation-national homelessness. The solution proffered was the return of Jews to Zion and the restoration of Zion to the Jews. Variants of pre-independence Zionist ideology revolved only around secondary questions such as the precise definition of the defect; which Jews and how many of them were to return to Zion; and in what sense and in what ways Zion was to be restored to the Jews. In the post-independence stage, residual Zionist ideology necessarily calls for an evaluation of the relative significance of Israel, and diasporic Jewries, for the Jews as a collective entity in the world.Less
This chapter focuses on the post-independence or “residual” ideology of Zionism as an issue internal to the Jewish ethnic entity. The term “ideology” here refers to an action-oriented set of ideas relating to a given social reality. In its pre-independence stage, the common denominator of all Zionist ideologies was the proposition that a fundamental defect inhered in the Jewish situation-national homelessness. The solution proffered was the return of Jews to Zion and the restoration of Zion to the Jews. Variants of pre-independence Zionist ideology revolved only around secondary questions such as the precise definition of the defect; which Jews and how many of them were to return to Zion; and in what sense and in what ways Zion was to be restored to the Jews. In the post-independence stage, residual Zionist ideology necessarily calls for an evaluation of the relative significance of Israel, and diasporic Jewries, for the Jews as a collective entity in the world.
Moira J. Maguire
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719080814
- eISBN:
- 9781781702604
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719080814.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to ‘cherish’ and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ...
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This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to ‘cherish’ and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. It examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, breaking new ground in examining the role of the state in caring for its most vulnerable citizens. In foregrounding policy and practice as it related to poor, illegitimate and abused children, the book gives voice to historical actors who formed a significant proportion of the Irish population but who have been ignored and marginalized in the historical record. Moreover, it uses the experiences of those children as lenses through which to re-evaluate the Catholic influence in post-independence Irish society. The historiography on church and state in modern Ireland tends to emphasise the formal means through which the church sought to ensure that Irish social policy was infused with Catholic principles. While it is almost cliché to suggest that the Catholic Church exerted influence over many aspects of Irish life, there have been few attempts to examine what this meant in practical terms. The book offers a different interpretation of the relationship between and among the Catholic Church, the political establishment and Irish people.Less
This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to ‘cherish’ and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. It examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, breaking new ground in examining the role of the state in caring for its most vulnerable citizens. In foregrounding policy and practice as it related to poor, illegitimate and abused children, the book gives voice to historical actors who formed a significant proportion of the Irish population but who have been ignored and marginalized in the historical record. Moreover, it uses the experiences of those children as lenses through which to re-evaluate the Catholic influence in post-independence Irish society. The historiography on church and state in modern Ireland tends to emphasise the formal means through which the church sought to ensure that Irish social policy was infused with Catholic principles. While it is almost cliché to suggest that the Catholic Church exerted influence over many aspects of Irish life, there have been few attempts to examine what this meant in practical terms. The book offers a different interpretation of the relationship between and among the Catholic Church, the political establishment and Irish people.
Caitriona Clear
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074370
- eISBN:
- 9781781700693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074370.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This is a history of how people worked, where they lived, what they ate, wore, sickened and died from in Ireland from 1850 to 1922, rather than a history of how they saw themselves, each other and ...
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This is a history of how people worked, where they lived, what they ate, wore, sickened and died from in Ireland from 1850 to 1922, rather than a history of how they saw themselves, each other and their place in the world. It summarises much useful information about life in Ireland in the period 1850–1922, incorporate some original research, suggests new lines of inquiry and disputes some historical orthodoxies that have grown up over the years. This chapter notes that life in Ireland in the seventy years covered by this book was more than an inexorable acceleration towards post-independence Ireland, north and south.Less
This is a history of how people worked, where they lived, what they ate, wore, sickened and died from in Ireland from 1850 to 1922, rather than a history of how they saw themselves, each other and their place in the world. It summarises much useful information about life in Ireland in the period 1850–1922, incorporate some original research, suggests new lines of inquiry and disputes some historical orthodoxies that have grown up over the years. This chapter notes that life in Ireland in the seventy years covered by this book was more than an inexorable acceleration towards post-independence Ireland, north and south.
Mary Burke
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199566464
- eISBN:
- 9780191721670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566464.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter Four examines the manner in which the idealization of the tinker figure disappeared after Partition, when it functioned as a symbol of threatening outside forces; although Synge had ...
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Chapter Four examines the manner in which the idealization of the tinker figure disappeared after Partition, when it functioned as a symbol of threatening outside forces; although Synge had Hibernicized tinkers, nativist discourse did not allow for the inclusion of any element of dubious origin in the putatively homogenous state. Ironically, in post-Independence Ireland, the tinker’s alien patina was reinforced by the fact that earlier interest in the minority had emanated from Anglo-Irish quarters. However, accretions of ‘foreignness’ were sometimes exorcized in literary depictions by a compensatory stress on the tinker’s orthodox Catholicism and Irish language ability, such as will be noted in Maurice Walsh’s prose. Additionally, the tinker was utilized for differing but related ideological purposes by the two sedentary territories on the divided island: liberal humanist nationalist discourse attempted to re-Hibernicize the tinker even as post-war Northern Unionists labelled tinkers a potential contaminant emanating from the hostile South.Less
Chapter Four examines the manner in which the idealization of the tinker figure disappeared after Partition, when it functioned as a symbol of threatening outside forces; although Synge had Hibernicized tinkers, nativist discourse did not allow for the inclusion of any element of dubious origin in the putatively homogenous state. Ironically, in post-Independence Ireland, the tinker’s alien patina was reinforced by the fact that earlier interest in the minority had emanated from Anglo-Irish quarters. However, accretions of ‘foreignness’ were sometimes exorcized in literary depictions by a compensatory stress on the tinker’s orthodox Catholicism and Irish language ability, such as will be noted in Maurice Walsh’s prose. Additionally, the tinker was utilized for differing but related ideological purposes by the two sedentary territories on the divided island: liberal humanist nationalist discourse attempted to re-Hibernicize the tinker even as post-war Northern Unionists labelled tinkers a potential contaminant emanating from the hostile South.
Andrew J. Kirkendall
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834190
- eISBN:
- 9781469606309
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807899533_kirkendall
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly ...
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In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire, who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War. A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult literacy training techniques that involved consciousness-raising, encouraging peasants and newly urban peoples to see themselves as active citizens who could transform their own lives. His work for state and national government agencies in Brazil in the early 1960s eventually aroused the suspicion of the Brazilian military, as well as of U.S. government aid programs. Political pressures led to Freire's brief imprisonment, following the military coup of 1964, and then to more than a decade and a half in exile. During this period, Freire continued his work in Chile, Nicaragua, and post-independence African countries, as well as in Geneva with the World Council of Churches, and in the United States at Harvard University.Less
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire, who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War. A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult literacy training techniques that involved consciousness-raising, encouraging peasants and newly urban peoples to see themselves as active citizens who could transform their own lives. His work for state and national government agencies in Brazil in the early 1960s eventually aroused the suspicion of the Brazilian military, as well as of U.S. government aid programs. Political pressures led to Freire's brief imprisonment, following the military coup of 1964, and then to more than a decade and a half in exile. During this period, Freire continued his work in Chile, Nicaragua, and post-independence African countries, as well as in Geneva with the World Council of Churches, and in the United States at Harvard University.
Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199261031
- eISBN:
- 9780191698712
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261031.003.0013
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter explores the political economy of conflict and reconstruction in Guinea-Bissau. It discusses the problems of the state and reviews its post-independence history. It discusses the 1998–9 ...
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This chapter explores the political economy of conflict and reconstruction in Guinea-Bissau. It discusses the problems of the state and reviews its post-independence history. It discusses the 1998–9 conflict and examines why a personal feud with the elite could degenerate into a national war with regional dimensions. It discusses why the Abuja peace agreement was flawed and summarizes the tasks that face national actors and donors in creating a state capable of directing the development process. The chapter concludes by stressing the wider implications of Guinea-Bissau's experience.Less
This chapter explores the political economy of conflict and reconstruction in Guinea-Bissau. It discusses the problems of the state and reviews its post-independence history. It discusses the 1998–9 conflict and examines why a personal feud with the elite could degenerate into a national war with regional dimensions. It discusses why the Abuja peace agreement was flawed and summarizes the tasks that face national actors and donors in creating a state capable of directing the development process. The chapter concludes by stressing the wider implications of Guinea-Bissau's experience.
Janet McIntosh
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520290495
- eISBN:
- 9780520964631
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520290495.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past ...
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In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them that their belonging is tenuous. This book looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to pronouncing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, the book focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-à-vis the colonial past and anti-colonial sentiment, phrasing and re-phrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? The book explores contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind-spots, denials, and self-doubt as her respondents strain to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry.Less
In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them that their belonging is tenuous. This book looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to pronouncing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, the book focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-à-vis the colonial past and anti-colonial sentiment, phrasing and re-phrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? The book explores contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind-spots, denials, and self-doubt as her respondents strain to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry.
Chelsea Stieber
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479802135
- eISBN:
- 9781479802166
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479802135.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book begins where so many others conclude: 1804. Recent scholarship has begun to explore the challenges that Atlantic world powers posed to Haitian sovereignty and legitimacy during the Age of ...
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This book begins where so many others conclude: 1804. Recent scholarship has begun to explore the challenges that Atlantic world powers posed to Haitian sovereignty and legitimacy during the Age of Revolution, but there existed an equally important internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between those who envisioned a military authoritarian empire and those who wished to establish a liberal republic. This book argues that the post-independence civil war context is central to understanding Haiti’s long postcolonial nineteenth century: the foundational political, intellectual, and regional tensions that constitute Haiti’s fundamental plurality. Considerable work has been dedicated to unearthing the uneven and unequal production of historical narratives about Haiti in the wake of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s groundbreaking Silencing the Past, but many more narratives—namely, those produced from within Haitian historiography and literary history—remain to be questioned and deconstructed. This book unearths and continually probes the conceptually generative possibilities of Haiti’s post-revolutionary divisions, something the current historiographic framework on Haiti’s long postcolonial nineteenth century fails to fully apprehend. Through close readings of original print sources (pamphlets, newspapers, literary magazines, geographies, histories, poems, and novels), it sheds light on the internal realities, tensions, and pluralities that shaped the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath to reveal the process of contestation, mutual definition, and continual (re)inscription of Haiti’s meaning throughout its long nineteenth century.Less
This book begins where so many others conclude: 1804. Recent scholarship has begun to explore the challenges that Atlantic world powers posed to Haitian sovereignty and legitimacy during the Age of Revolution, but there existed an equally important internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil war between those who envisioned a military authoritarian empire and those who wished to establish a liberal republic. This book argues that the post-independence civil war context is central to understanding Haiti’s long postcolonial nineteenth century: the foundational political, intellectual, and regional tensions that constitute Haiti’s fundamental plurality. Considerable work has been dedicated to unearthing the uneven and unequal production of historical narratives about Haiti in the wake of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s groundbreaking Silencing the Past, but many more narratives—namely, those produced from within Haitian historiography and literary history—remain to be questioned and deconstructed. This book unearths and continually probes the conceptually generative possibilities of Haiti’s post-revolutionary divisions, something the current historiographic framework on Haiti’s long postcolonial nineteenth century fails to fully apprehend. Through close readings of original print sources (pamphlets, newspapers, literary magazines, geographies, histories, poems, and novels), it sheds light on the internal realities, tensions, and pluralities that shaped the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath to reveal the process of contestation, mutual definition, and continual (re)inscription of Haiti’s meaning throughout its long nineteenth century.
Mairi MacDonald
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780719089305
- eISBN:
- 9781526135858
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089305.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Mairi MacDonald addresses one of the most spectacular cases of a post-independence break with the Franco-African links and networks. In Guinea-Conakry, territorial leader Sékou Touré refused, already ...
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Mairi MacDonald addresses one of the most spectacular cases of a post-independence break with the Franco-African links and networks. In Guinea-Conakry, territorial leader Sékou Touré refused, already in 1958, to participate in Charles de Gaulle’s French Community project, and accepted French economic ‘punishment’ instead of entering into the forms of collaboration chosen by many of Guinea’s neighbours. However, the author shows the ambivalence behind a façade of an apparently clear case. MacDonald analyses the expectations that Sékou Touré and other Guinean nationalist leaders had of France in the 1950s, and sets them in contrast with the experiences of the postcolonial years. This discussion includes an interpretation of the shifting attitudes taken by Sékou Touré towards the French after 1960, between attempts at reconciliation and accusations of conspiracy and espionage.Less
Mairi MacDonald addresses one of the most spectacular cases of a post-independence break with the Franco-African links and networks. In Guinea-Conakry, territorial leader Sékou Touré refused, already in 1958, to participate in Charles de Gaulle’s French Community project, and accepted French economic ‘punishment’ instead of entering into the forms of collaboration chosen by many of Guinea’s neighbours. However, the author shows the ambivalence behind a façade of an apparently clear case. MacDonald analyses the expectations that Sékou Touré and other Guinean nationalist leaders had of France in the 1950s, and sets them in contrast with the experiences of the postcolonial years. This discussion includes an interpretation of the shifting attitudes taken by Sékou Touré towards the French after 1960, between attempts at reconciliation and accusations of conspiracy and espionage.
George H. Gadbois, Jr
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198070610
- eISBN:
- 9780199080755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198070610.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter describes the formation of the Sastri Court of 1951–4. Following the death of Kania, for the first time in post-Independence India, a new CJI had to be chosen. Sastri, who was the most ...
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This chapter describes the formation of the Sastri Court of 1951–4. Following the death of Kania, for the first time in post-Independence India, a new CJI had to be chosen. Sastri, who was the most senior associate judge, was appointed by the president a day after Kania’s death to perform the duties of Chief Justice of India. The Supreme Court of India that Sastri inherited comprised six judges, himself included, plus Fazl Ali, who had reached retirement age a few weeks earlier but who agreed to extended duty under the terms of Article 128 of the Constitution. Other members of Sastri’s court are Ghulam Hasan, Natvarlal Harilal Bhagwati, Bachu Jagannadhadas, and Tirunelveli Lakshmanasuri Venkatarama Ayyar. Sastri’s quartet was an all-India group, representing the four major regions of the nation. When Sastri’s tenure as CJI ended with his retirement on 3 January 1954, he bequeathed to his successor, M.C. Mahajan.Less
This chapter describes the formation of the Sastri Court of 1951–4. Following the death of Kania, for the first time in post-Independence India, a new CJI had to be chosen. Sastri, who was the most senior associate judge, was appointed by the president a day after Kania’s death to perform the duties of Chief Justice of India. The Supreme Court of India that Sastri inherited comprised six judges, himself included, plus Fazl Ali, who had reached retirement age a few weeks earlier but who agreed to extended duty under the terms of Article 128 of the Constitution. Other members of Sastri’s court are Ghulam Hasan, Natvarlal Harilal Bhagwati, Bachu Jagannadhadas, and Tirunelveli Lakshmanasuri Venkatarama Ayyar. Sastri’s quartet was an all-India group, representing the four major regions of the nation. When Sastri’s tenure as CJI ended with his retirement on 3 January 1954, he bequeathed to his successor, M.C. Mahajan.
Elleke Boehmer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719068782
- eISBN:
- 9781781701898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719068782.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
In some notable instances, women writers work to transform the male lineaments of the post-colonial nation. In others, they attempt merely to decipher and to modify its structures of privilege. ...
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In some notable instances, women writers work to transform the male lineaments of the post-colonial nation. In others, they attempt merely to decipher and to modify its structures of privilege. Although the topics and texts discussed in this book have varied widely, the foregoing chapters have been linked by their shared concern with the strategies used by novel writers, women but also men, to recast the colonial and patriarchal symbolic legacies embedded in many versions of post-independence nationalism. A reading of the Indian writer Manju Kapur's first two novels focusing on Partition and the Ayodhya crisis, decisive moments in India's national story, closes this study, developing further the idea of the redemptive nation as a countervailing space for women as against the threats posed by communalism. The novels are Difficult Daughters (1998) and A Married Woman (2003).Less
In some notable instances, women writers work to transform the male lineaments of the post-colonial nation. In others, they attempt merely to decipher and to modify its structures of privilege. Although the topics and texts discussed in this book have varied widely, the foregoing chapters have been linked by their shared concern with the strategies used by novel writers, women but also men, to recast the colonial and patriarchal symbolic legacies embedded in many versions of post-independence nationalism. A reading of the Indian writer Manju Kapur's first two novels focusing on Partition and the Ayodhya crisis, decisive moments in India's national story, closes this study, developing further the idea of the redemptive nation as a countervailing space for women as against the threats posed by communalism. The novels are Difficult Daughters (1998) and A Married Woman (2003).
Susana Onega
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719068782
- eISBN:
- 9781781701898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719068782.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Although he published the autobiographical meditation Home and Exile in 2002, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) remains the culmination point of his achievement as a writer of fiction, ...
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Although he published the autobiographical meditation Home and Exile in 2002, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) remains the culmination point of his achievement as a writer of fiction, as well as being an elaboration of his earlier novelistic interests. Dealing in coded terms with Nigeria's calcified power-elite, and the bankruptcy of its post-independence nepotistic politics, Anthills of the Savannah is in many respects a sequel to the penultimate novel A Man of the People (1966), which explored themes of political corruption and military takeover on the eve of Biafra. In the fifth and final novel, Achebe's view of that elite and its position in the wider African context has become more uncompromising and – at least in theory – more attuned to gender and populist ideas. Addressing Nigeria's elite as himself a self-conscious member of that group, Achebe is unambivalent in his view of leadership as the chief pivot of political and also of economic transformation. The novel clears a space for women to be themselves the prefiguring subjects of a new social and political vision.Less
Although he published the autobiographical meditation Home and Exile in 2002, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) remains the culmination point of his achievement as a writer of fiction, as well as being an elaboration of his earlier novelistic interests. Dealing in coded terms with Nigeria's calcified power-elite, and the bankruptcy of its post-independence nepotistic politics, Anthills of the Savannah is in many respects a sequel to the penultimate novel A Man of the People (1966), which explored themes of political corruption and military takeover on the eve of Biafra. In the fifth and final novel, Achebe's view of that elite and its position in the wider African context has become more uncompromising and – at least in theory – more attuned to gender and populist ideas. Addressing Nigeria's elite as himself a self-conscious member of that group, Achebe is unambivalent in his view of leadership as the chief pivot of political and also of economic transformation. The novel clears a space for women to be themselves the prefiguring subjects of a new social and political vision.
Elleke Boehmer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719068782
- eISBN:
- 9781781701898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719068782.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter on post-colonialism as neo-orientalist explores the colonialist filiations underlying post-independence representations of the colonised body, especially the female body. A study of the ...
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This chapter on post-colonialism as neo-orientalist explores the colonialist filiations underlying post-independence representations of the colonised body, especially the female body. A study of the fin-de-siècle construction of Sarojini Naidu as Indian female poet in the 1890s, and of the literary and publishing phenomenon of Arundhati Roy in the 1990s, explores how, in almost imperceptible ways, the past of colonial discourse repeats itself upon the present that is post-colonial criticism. Here, too, the reified female body is a central, governing emblem. What is especially striking about the parallel instances of Naidu and Roy is how the several interconnections converge in the notions, on the one hand, of lyric complexity and emotional intensity, and, on the other, of singular femaleness. In the case of Naidu, this convergence is also explicitly tied in with her being oriental, and her explicitly orientalised poetry. The chapter also considers in broader terms the neo-orientalist underpinnings of post-colonial literary criticism from the west, based in part on its location in the neo-imperialist centre, and complicatedly manifested in the increasing prominence accorded Third World women writers.Less
This chapter on post-colonialism as neo-orientalist explores the colonialist filiations underlying post-independence representations of the colonised body, especially the female body. A study of the fin-de-siècle construction of Sarojini Naidu as Indian female poet in the 1890s, and of the literary and publishing phenomenon of Arundhati Roy in the 1990s, explores how, in almost imperceptible ways, the past of colonial discourse repeats itself upon the present that is post-colonial criticism. Here, too, the reified female body is a central, governing emblem. What is especially striking about the parallel instances of Naidu and Roy is how the several interconnections converge in the notions, on the one hand, of lyric complexity and emotional intensity, and, on the other, of singular femaleness. In the case of Naidu, this convergence is also explicitly tied in with her being oriental, and her explicitly orientalised poetry. The chapter also considers in broader terms the neo-orientalist underpinnings of post-colonial literary criticism from the west, based in part on its location in the neo-imperialist centre, and complicatedly manifested in the increasing prominence accorded Third World women writers.
Roy Armes
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748621231
- eISBN:
- 9780748670789
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621231.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book is a study linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African ...
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This book is a study linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. The main focus is the development over forty years of two main traditions of African filmmaking: a social realist strand examining the nature of postcolonial society; and a more experimental approach where emphasis is placed on new stylistic patterns able to embrace history, myth, and magic. The work of younger filmmakers born since independence is examined in the light of these two traditions.Less
This book is a study linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. The main focus is the development over forty years of two main traditions of African filmmaking: a social realist strand examining the nature of postcolonial society; and a more experimental approach where emphasis is placed on new stylistic patterns able to embrace history, myth, and magic. The work of younger filmmakers born since independence is examined in the light of these two traditions.
Samir Kumar Das
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780198084945
- eISBN:
- 9780199082391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198084945.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
The introductory chapter discusses the literature on the Indian state during the post-independence period. This volume explores research and writings on issues about political economy, social policy, ...
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The introductory chapter discusses the literature on the Indian state during the post-independence period. This volume explores research and writings on issues about political economy, social policy, law, and state of rights, the era of economic reforms and globalization, and analyses their implications on the social character of the Indian state. This chapter also discusses perspectives and approaches considered in the analysis of the Indian state such as institutionalism, state pluralism, and discourse analysis.Less
The introductory chapter discusses the literature on the Indian state during the post-independence period. This volume explores research and writings on issues about political economy, social policy, law, and state of rights, the era of economic reforms and globalization, and analyses their implications on the social character of the Indian state. This chapter also discusses perspectives and approaches considered in the analysis of the Indian state such as institutionalism, state pluralism, and discourse analysis.
Ranga Rao
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199470754
- eISBN:
- 9780199087624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199470754.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, World Literature
As amusing as Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Narayan’s Talkative Man presents the career of a compulsive womanizer, Dr Rann. He is yet another rogue in Narayan’s post-Independence gallery. Dr ...
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As amusing as Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Narayan’s Talkative Man presents the career of a compulsive womanizer, Dr Rann. He is yet another rogue in Narayan’s post-Independence gallery. Dr Rann, a PhD, is the apotheosis of Narayan’s intellectuals and academics. From the havoc Rann creates, however, it is almost like the return of the man eater, in the avatar of a specialist woman eater. Towards the end, Rann delivers a talk on a topic he is best qualified for: a pest, the Giant Weed. Set against the ‘slippery’ Rann is his wife, a New Woman of Narayan’s post-Independence era. Ranga Rao notes that the latter period of Narayan’s post-Independence novels is the season of pests.Less
As amusing as Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi, Narayan’s Talkative Man presents the career of a compulsive womanizer, Dr Rann. He is yet another rogue in Narayan’s post-Independence gallery. Dr Rann, a PhD, is the apotheosis of Narayan’s intellectuals and academics. From the havoc Rann creates, however, it is almost like the return of the man eater, in the avatar of a specialist woman eater. Towards the end, Rann delivers a talk on a topic he is best qualified for: a pest, the Giant Weed. Set against the ‘slippery’ Rann is his wife, a New Woman of Narayan’s post-Independence era. Ranga Rao notes that the latter period of Narayan’s post-Independence novels is the season of pests.
Ranga Rao
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199470754
- eISBN:
- 9780199087624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199470754.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, World Literature
Narayan’s novellas belong to the late post-Independence period, the novelist’s final phase. In the first novella, the hero of this slender novella is a tiger. Trapped by a sadistic circus owner, the ...
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Narayan’s novellas belong to the late post-Independence period, the novelist’s final phase. In the first novella, the hero of this slender novella is a tiger. Trapped by a sadistic circus owner, the harassed beast kills him accidentally, and later escapes. Its presence terrifies Malgudi until a sage adopts him as his disciple. In this chapter Ranga Rao shows how this novella charts the extraordinary spiritual transformation of an unmitigated animal. While there is relatively little of it in Narayan’s pre-Independence phase, violence in the early post-Independence novels extends into the late phase, and grows virulent in this novella. The novella also presents a peep into the Kabir Street aristocracy in terminal decline.Less
Narayan’s novellas belong to the late post-Independence period, the novelist’s final phase. In the first novella, the hero of this slender novella is a tiger. Trapped by a sadistic circus owner, the harassed beast kills him accidentally, and later escapes. Its presence terrifies Malgudi until a sage adopts him as his disciple. In this chapter Ranga Rao shows how this novella charts the extraordinary spiritual transformation of an unmitigated animal. While there is relatively little of it in Narayan’s pre-Independence phase, violence in the early post-Independence novels extends into the late phase, and grows virulent in this novella. The novella also presents a peep into the Kabir Street aristocracy in terminal decline.
Pulapre Balakrishnan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198065470
- eISBN:
- 9780199080090
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198065470.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The book is a comprehensive study of growth in post-Independence India. The theory is both subtle and eclectic, drawing on several strands of the relevant literature, and presented in an original ...
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The book is a comprehensive study of growth in post-Independence India. The theory is both subtle and eclectic, drawing on several strands of the relevant literature, and presented in an original narrative. It uses empirical methods to advantage and in the process of examining the several sensibly-defined historical periods, the book tests whether the conventional wisdom on these stands up to close scrutiny. If it does not, it explains why, and also why the carefully presented narrative is a more convincing explanation. The main body of the book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 provides a critical exposition of some prominent theoretical representations of growth and a historical perspective on its drivers. The remaining three chapters provide a fresh analysis of three periods, respectively, 1950–64, 1965–91, and 1991 onwards.Less
The book is a comprehensive study of growth in post-Independence India. The theory is both subtle and eclectic, drawing on several strands of the relevant literature, and presented in an original narrative. It uses empirical methods to advantage and in the process of examining the several sensibly-defined historical periods, the book tests whether the conventional wisdom on these stands up to close scrutiny. If it does not, it explains why, and also why the carefully presented narrative is a more convincing explanation. The main body of the book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 provides a critical exposition of some prominent theoretical representations of growth and a historical perspective on its drivers. The remaining three chapters provide a fresh analysis of three periods, respectively, 1950–64, 1965–91, and 1991 onwards.
Ramin Jahanbegloo
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195689440
- eISBN:
- 9780199080342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195689440.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
This interview focuses on the successes and failures of post-Independence India. Beginning with an evaluation of the economy, which has become a mix of capitalism and communism, it also tries to ...
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This interview focuses on the successes and failures of post-Independence India. Beginning with an evaluation of the economy, which has become a mix of capitalism and communism, it also tries to assess whether Nehru and Gandhi's dreams of giving a moral and spiritual basis to the objectives of the country came true or not. J.C. Kapoor then moves on to share his thoughts on the role of the Indian élite and the consumerist attitude in India, and explains his comparison of the operative paradigm of armament-protected consumerism to monoculturalism and monopowerism.Less
This interview focuses on the successes and failures of post-Independence India. Beginning with an evaluation of the economy, which has become a mix of capitalism and communism, it also tries to assess whether Nehru and Gandhi's dreams of giving a moral and spiritual basis to the objectives of the country came true or not. J.C. Kapoor then moves on to share his thoughts on the role of the Indian élite and the consumerist attitude in India, and explains his comparison of the operative paradigm of armament-protected consumerism to monoculturalism and monopowerism.
