Douglas Kerr
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099340
- eISBN:
- 9789882206892
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099340.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This is a literary history that examines British writing about the East—centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific—in the colonial and postcolonial period. It takes as its subject ...
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This is a literary history that examines British writing about the East—centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific—in the colonial and postcolonial period. It takes as its subject “the East” that was real to the British imagination, largely the creation of writers who described and told stories about it, descriptions and stories coloured by the experience of empire and its aftermath. The book discusses the work of writers such as Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad, and Orwell, but also covers less-well-known literary authors, including Anglo-Indian romance writing, the reports and memoirs of administrators, and travel writing from Auden and Isherwood in China to Redmond O'Hanlon in Borneo. It produces a history of this writing by looking at a series of “figures” or tropes of representation through which successive writers sought to represent the East and the British experience of it—tropes such as exploring the hinterland, going native, and the figure of rule itself. The book raises issues of identity and representation; power and knowledge; and, centrally, the question of how to represent other people.Less
This is a literary history that examines British writing about the East—centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific—in the colonial and postcolonial period. It takes as its subject “the East” that was real to the British imagination, largely the creation of writers who described and told stories about it, descriptions and stories coloured by the experience of empire and its aftermath. The book discusses the work of writers such as Stevenson, Kipling, Conrad, and Orwell, but also covers less-well-known literary authors, including Anglo-Indian romance writing, the reports and memoirs of administrators, and travel writing from Auden and Isherwood in China to Redmond O'Hanlon in Borneo. It produces a history of this writing by looking at a series of “figures” or tropes of representation through which successive writers sought to represent the East and the British experience of it—tropes such as exploring the hinterland, going native, and the figure of rule itself. The book raises issues of identity and representation; power and knowledge; and, centrally, the question of how to represent other people.
Margaret Litvin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691137803
- eISBN:
- 9781400840106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691137803.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explains that much of what matters for Arab Hamlet appropriation in the postcolonial period—the international sources, the way they were absorbed, and the concerns they help express—was ...
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This chapter explains that much of what matters for Arab Hamlet appropriation in the postcolonial period—the international sources, the way they were absorbed, and the concerns they help express—was shaped by the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser's geopolitical and cultural priorities made a range of Hamlets available and conditioned how intellectuals received them. Beyond this, from the moment in 1954 when he declared to his people, “All of you are Gamal Abdel Nasser,” the Egyptian leader personally embodied his country's identity and acted out its drama of historical agency. Beyond Egypt's borders, he became (like his radio station) “the voice of the Arabs.”Less
This chapter explains that much of what matters for Arab Hamlet appropriation in the postcolonial period—the international sources, the way they were absorbed, and the concerns they help express—was shaped by the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser's geopolitical and cultural priorities made a range of Hamlets available and conditioned how intellectuals received them. Beyond this, from the moment in 1954 when he declared to his people, “All of you are Gamal Abdel Nasser,” the Egyptian leader personally embodied his country's identity and acted out its drama of historical agency. Beyond Egypt's borders, he became (like his radio station) “the voice of the Arabs.”
Khairudin Aljunied
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474408882
- eISBN:
- 9781474430432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408882.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter looks back at the history of Southeast Asian Muslim states prior to the advent of secular modernity. It proposes that the Muslim polities that existed in Southeast Asia before the ...
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This chapter looks back at the history of Southeast Asian Muslim states prior to the advent of secular modernity. It proposes that the Muslim polities that existed in Southeast Asia before the arrival of European colonialism displayed a high degree of inclusivity and encouraged Muslim cosmopolitanism in the region. The chapter then considers the modern period, which saw the weakening and breaking down of local polities under colonial rule. Moving on to the postcolonial period, a time of intense struggles between secular states and Muslim cosmopolitans across Southeast Asia, the chapter contends that the three states that this book considers — Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia — have displayed differing stances towards Muslim cosmopolitanism.Less
This chapter looks back at the history of Southeast Asian Muslim states prior to the advent of secular modernity. It proposes that the Muslim polities that existed in Southeast Asia before the arrival of European colonialism displayed a high degree of inclusivity and encouraged Muslim cosmopolitanism in the region. The chapter then considers the modern period, which saw the weakening and breaking down of local polities under colonial rule. Moving on to the postcolonial period, a time of intense struggles between secular states and Muslim cosmopolitans across Southeast Asia, the chapter contends that the three states that this book considers — Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia — have displayed differing stances towards Muslim cosmopolitanism.
Jeff Mielke
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520265783
- eISBN:
- 9780520947665
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520265783.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This concluding chapter examines tropes of savagery in the literature of the postwar period. Cannibalism features as a major theme in three prominent pacifist and humanistic novels that were ...
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This concluding chapter examines tropes of savagery in the literature of the postwar period. Cannibalism features as a major theme in three prominent pacifist and humanistic novels that were published within ten years of Japan's defeat and the loss of its empire. By focusing on this theme, it examines continuities and discontinuities between tropes of savagery in the colonial era and in the immediate postcolonial period.Less
This concluding chapter examines tropes of savagery in the literature of the postwar period. Cannibalism features as a major theme in three prominent pacifist and humanistic novels that were published within ten years of Japan's defeat and the loss of its empire. By focusing on this theme, it examines continuities and discontinuities between tropes of savagery in the colonial era and in the immediate postcolonial period.
Simiyu Wandibba
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635221
- eISBN:
- 9780748653010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635221.003.0020
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
This chapter begins with a discussion of the historical development of museums in Africa. It considers the fundamental political and social changes that took place on the continent in the immediate ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the historical development of museums in Africa. It considers the fundamental political and social changes that took place on the continent in the immediate postcolonial period, which brought about a fresh role for African museums. The chapter then describes the present situation of African museums. The modern museum in Africa, although a part of the colonial legacy, has evolved to be much more. It was originally meant to serve the interests of the colonial masters as a place where they and their families could go to view the curiosities of the native peoples. However, the museums of today are an important resource to the nations of the continent.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the historical development of museums in Africa. It considers the fundamental political and social changes that took place on the continent in the immediate postcolonial period, which brought about a fresh role for African museums. The chapter then describes the present situation of African museums. The modern museum in Africa, although a part of the colonial legacy, has evolved to be much more. It was originally meant to serve the interests of the colonial masters as a place where they and their families could go to view the curiosities of the native peoples. However, the museums of today are an important resource to the nations of the continent.
Marian Aguiar
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665600
- eISBN:
- 9781452946429
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665600.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter describes the Indian railway during the postcolonial period, focusing on the implications of the colonial rhetoric of mobility and how the railway mapped the new colony. It examines the ...
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This chapter describes the Indian railway during the postcolonial period, focusing on the implications of the colonial rhetoric of mobility and how the railway mapped the new colony. It examines the contradictions that emerge in the account of the railway as the “life-line” of India, and describes the relationship between the rural and urban that played an important political and cultural role in India’s early postcolonial period. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the ways Anita Nair and Shuma Futehally used the setting of the train as a microcosm of Indian society and a way to negotiate different faiths, genders, and castes, and classes inside India.Less
This chapter describes the Indian railway during the postcolonial period, focusing on the implications of the colonial rhetoric of mobility and how the railway mapped the new colony. It examines the contradictions that emerge in the account of the railway as the “life-line” of India, and describes the relationship between the rural and urban that played an important political and cultural role in India’s early postcolonial period. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the ways Anita Nair and Shuma Futehally used the setting of the train as a microcosm of Indian society and a way to negotiate different faiths, genders, and castes, and classes inside India.
Ka-che Yip
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622095878
- eISBN:
- 9789882206854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622095878.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This section explains that the essays in this book have examined both the temporal and spatial aspects of the development of various approaches to combating malaria during the colonial and ...
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This section explains that the essays in this book have examined both the temporal and spatial aspects of the development of various approaches to combating malaria during the colonial and postcolonial period in Hong Kong, Okinawa, Taiwan, and mainland China. It further shows that the essays consider the historical development of malaria and its control or eradication in modern East Asia as a dynamic process of interaction between the interests and objectives of the state (colonial or sovereign), international interests, the emergence of new medical knowledge and technology, changing concepts of disease and health, and local environmental conditions and local society, as well as the political, social, and economic forces at work in a particular locality at a particular time. It points out that they demonstrate the complexity required in the formulation and implementation of anti-malaria policies, and highlight factors central to the health of a society.Less
This section explains that the essays in this book have examined both the temporal and spatial aspects of the development of various approaches to combating malaria during the colonial and postcolonial period in Hong Kong, Okinawa, Taiwan, and mainland China. It further shows that the essays consider the historical development of malaria and its control or eradication in modern East Asia as a dynamic process of interaction between the interests and objectives of the state (colonial or sovereign), international interests, the emergence of new medical knowledge and technology, changing concepts of disease and health, and local environmental conditions and local society, as well as the political, social, and economic forces at work in a particular locality at a particular time. It points out that they demonstrate the complexity required in the formulation and implementation of anti-malaria policies, and highlight factors central to the health of a society.
Marian Aguiar
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816665600
- eISBN:
- 9781452946429
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665600.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
From Mohandas Gandhi’s nineteenth-century tour in a third-class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, the railway has been one of India’s most ...
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From Mohandas Gandhi’s nineteenth-century tour in a third-class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, the railway has been one of India’s most potent emblems of modern life. In an analysis of representations of the Indian railway, this book interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology. Since the colonial period in India, the railway has been idealized as a rational utopia—a moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. The book charts this powerful image into the postcolonial period, showing how the culture of mobility exposes this symbol of reason as surprisingly dynamic and productive. Looking in turn at the partition of India, labor relations, rituals of travel, works of literature and film, visual culture, and the Mumbai train bombings of 2006, the book finds incongruities she terms “counternarratives of modernity” to signify how they work both with and against the dominant rhetoric.Less
From Mohandas Gandhi’s nineteenth-century tour in a third-class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, the railway has been one of India’s most potent emblems of modern life. In an analysis of representations of the Indian railway, this book interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology. Since the colonial period in India, the railway has been idealized as a rational utopia—a moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. The book charts this powerful image into the postcolonial period, showing how the culture of mobility exposes this symbol of reason as surprisingly dynamic and productive. Looking in turn at the partition of India, labor relations, rituals of travel, works of literature and film, visual culture, and the Mumbai train bombings of 2006, the book finds incongruities she terms “counternarratives of modernity” to signify how they work both with and against the dominant rhetoric.
James P. Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick H. Hanselmann, and Dominique Rissolo
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062877
- eISBN:
- 9780813051826
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062877.003.0006
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Chapter 5 explains the late colonial period, the end of the transisthmian treasure route, the end of Spanish control, and the postcolonial period through the early nineteenth century.
Chapter 5 explains the late colonial period, the end of the transisthmian treasure route, the end of Spanish control, and the postcolonial period through the early nineteenth century.
