David Huddart
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380253
- eISBN:
- 9781781381540
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380253.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
In the context of English’s apparent worldwide spread, this book brings together the fields of postcolonial studies and world Englishes, arguing that this is a necessary and long overdue connection. ...
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In the context of English’s apparent worldwide spread, this book brings together the fields of postcolonial studies and world Englishes, arguing that this is a necessary and long overdue connection. Although postcolonial studies appears to have its origins in literary studies, and accordingly in the study of language, in fact there have been few connections with fields in linguistics that are clearly relevant to postcolonial approaches to English in particular. The book chiefly makes connections with the growing field of World Englishes studies, considering points of contact, differences in emphasis, and fundamental disagreements. It proposes that postcolonial studies can be renewed through engaging with World Englishes studies, but also that postcolonial studies as a discipline can offer powerful frameworks for World Englishes studies itself. The book examines the existing and potential connections between the fields through examples such as postcolonial dictionaries, postcolonial composition, the language of global citizenship, and the interface between World Literatures and World Englishes. It concludes that World Englishes, by contrast with a monolithic Global English, contribute to a vision of communication that resists globalization’s demand for accessibility and transparency.Less
In the context of English’s apparent worldwide spread, this book brings together the fields of postcolonial studies and world Englishes, arguing that this is a necessary and long overdue connection. Although postcolonial studies appears to have its origins in literary studies, and accordingly in the study of language, in fact there have been few connections with fields in linguistics that are clearly relevant to postcolonial approaches to English in particular. The book chiefly makes connections with the growing field of World Englishes studies, considering points of contact, differences in emphasis, and fundamental disagreements. It proposes that postcolonial studies can be renewed through engaging with World Englishes studies, but also that postcolonial studies as a discipline can offer powerful frameworks for World Englishes studies itself. The book examines the existing and potential connections between the fields through examples such as postcolonial dictionaries, postcolonial composition, the language of global citizenship, and the interface between World Literatures and World Englishes. It concludes that World Englishes, by contrast with a monolithic Global English, contribute to a vision of communication that resists globalization’s demand for accessibility and transparency.
David Huddart
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380253
- eISBN:
- 9781781381540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380253.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
This chapter articulates postcolonial studies and World Englishes, initially by exploring connections that have already been made, either explicitly or implicitly. It considers the different ...
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This chapter articulates postcolonial studies and World Englishes, initially by exploring connections that have already been made, either explicitly or implicitly. It considers the different understandings of each term, before bringing the two together in terms of specific histories and also shared problems. Importantly, the chapter discusses the ways in which English’s spread is a form of linguistic imperialism, but it continues to examine the extent to which World Englishes escape from the assumptions associated with postcolonial studies. Finally, the chapter outlines the ways in which this book differs from previous articulations of the two fields.Less
This chapter articulates postcolonial studies and World Englishes, initially by exploring connections that have already been made, either explicitly or implicitly. It considers the different understandings of each term, before bringing the two together in terms of specific histories and also shared problems. Importantly, the chapter discusses the ways in which English’s spread is a form of linguistic imperialism, but it continues to examine the extent to which World Englishes escape from the assumptions associated with postcolonial studies. Finally, the chapter outlines the ways in which this book differs from previous articulations of the two fields.
STEPHEN D. MOORE
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823233250
- eISBN:
- 9780823240487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823233250.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter focuses on Spivak's convoluted relationship with postcolonial studies. It attempts to situate Spivak not only in relation to the academic field of ...
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This chapter focuses on Spivak's convoluted relationship with postcolonial studies. It attempts to situate Spivak not only in relation to the academic field of postcolonial studies but also the field of literary studies in which it first coalesced. As such, it begins not with postcolonial studies but with deconstruction.Less
This chapter focuses on Spivak's convoluted relationship with postcolonial studies. It attempts to situate Spivak not only in relation to the academic field of postcolonial studies but also the field of literary studies in which it first coalesced. As such, it begins not with postcolonial studies but with deconstruction.
Stephen Howe
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199249909
- eISBN:
- 9780191697845
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249909.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses cultural and literary debates where anticolonialism, postcoloniality, postmodernism and poststructuralism intersect in the Irish as in many other contexts. It describes ...
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This chapter discusses cultural and literary debates where anticolonialism, postcoloniality, postmodernism and poststructuralism intersect in the Irish as in many other contexts. It describes postcolonial studies and Ireland, from politics to culture and back again. Irish cultural and literary history has become a major site for the elaboration of ideas about colonialism and postcoloniality. The most forceful and cohesive focus for the new Irish cultural studies of colonialism has been the Field Day, publishing a series of substantial monographs on Irish history and culture under the title ‘Critical Conditions’. The views of the Field Day and other Irish postcolonial theorists are deeply ambivalent in their attitudes to nationalism. This chapter also examines postcolonials from Connaught to California: Declan Kiberd, Luke Gibbons and David Lloyd; and originators, imitators, and assailants on Irish cultural postcolonialism.Less
This chapter discusses cultural and literary debates where anticolonialism, postcoloniality, postmodernism and poststructuralism intersect in the Irish as in many other contexts. It describes postcolonial studies and Ireland, from politics to culture and back again. Irish cultural and literary history has become a major site for the elaboration of ideas about colonialism and postcoloniality. The most forceful and cohesive focus for the new Irish cultural studies of colonialism has been the Field Day, publishing a series of substantial monographs on Irish history and culture under the title ‘Critical Conditions’. The views of the Field Day and other Irish postcolonial theorists are deeply ambivalent in their attitudes to nationalism. This chapter also examines postcolonials from Connaught to California: Declan Kiberd, Luke Gibbons and David Lloyd; and originators, imitators, and assailants on Irish cultural postcolonialism.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311437
- eISBN:
- 9781846315299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311437.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explores the foundational bias (nomos) of postcolonial studies and its anxiously undertheorized relation to the empirical question of popularity and the ideological stakes that question ...
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This chapter explores the foundational bias (nomos) of postcolonial studies and its anxiously undertheorized relation to the empirical question of popularity and the ideological stakes that question raises. It elaborates, in a specifically francophone context, upon the opposition between the postcolonial and the popular, smoking out the bias toward great, or at least not bad, writing in postcolonial studies by briefly examining the case of popular novelist, Tony Delsham. It then discusses Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé by way of expanding upon the distinction between the low-, the middle-, and the highbrow, and arguing for its unacknowledged importance to academic readers of postcolonial texts. The chapter concludes with some general considerations regarding what, if anything, cultural studies, with its concerted focus on the ‘popular’, can contribute to our understanding of postcolonial studies and indeed, to that field's self-understanding.Less
This chapter explores the foundational bias (nomos) of postcolonial studies and its anxiously undertheorized relation to the empirical question of popularity and the ideological stakes that question raises. It elaborates, in a specifically francophone context, upon the opposition between the postcolonial and the popular, smoking out the bias toward great, or at least not bad, writing in postcolonial studies by briefly examining the case of popular novelist, Tony Delsham. It then discusses Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé by way of expanding upon the distinction between the low-, the middle-, and the highbrow, and arguing for its unacknowledged importance to academic readers of postcolonial texts. The chapter concludes with some general considerations regarding what, if anything, cultural studies, with its concerted focus on the ‘popular’, can contribute to our understanding of postcolonial studies and indeed, to that field's self-understanding.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311437
- eISBN:
- 9781846315299
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311437.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the main themes covered in the book. It addresses three main concerns. First, the emergence of ‘francophone postcolonial studies’ as a field of study ...
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This introductory chapter presents an overview of the main themes covered in the book. It addresses three main concerns. First, the emergence of ‘francophone postcolonial studies’ as a field of study over the course of this past decade, and it is by no means transparent relation to literary studies. Second, the decided turn in recent postcolonial theory away from a culturalist emphasis and toward a renewed engagement with the ‘properly political’. Third, the ever growing insistence — specifically in France and its former and present colonies in the Caribbean (les Antilles) — on the ‘duty to remember’, and on the need for commemorative events and practices through which this duty is to be fulfilled. The chapter discusses Gayatri Spivak's post-postcolonial turn; Robert Young's political turn; and the memory of Haïti/Hayti.Less
This introductory chapter presents an overview of the main themes covered in the book. It addresses three main concerns. First, the emergence of ‘francophone postcolonial studies’ as a field of study over the course of this past decade, and it is by no means transparent relation to literary studies. Second, the decided turn in recent postcolonial theory away from a culturalist emphasis and toward a renewed engagement with the ‘properly political’. Third, the ever growing insistence — specifically in France and its former and present colonies in the Caribbean (les Antilles) — on the ‘duty to remember’, and on the need for commemorative events and practices through which this duty is to be fulfilled. The chapter discusses Gayatri Spivak's post-postcolonial turn; Robert Young's political turn; and the memory of Haïti/Hayti.
Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474429948
- eISBN:
- 9781474453561
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429948.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities. Since ...
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This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities. Since decolonization, postcolonial writers and filmmakers have re-appropriated and adapted texts of the Victorian era as a way to 'write back' to the imperial centre. At the same time, the rise of international co-productions and multinational media corporations have called into question the effectiveness of postcolonial rewritings of canonical texts as a resistance strategy. With case studies of films like Gunga Din, Dracula 2000, The Portrait of a Lady, Vanity Fair and Slumdog Millionaire, this book argues that many postcolonial filmmakers have extended resistance beyond revisionary adaptation, opting to interrogate Hollywood's genre conventions and production methods to address how globalization has affected and continues to influence their homelands.Less
This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities. Since decolonization, postcolonial writers and filmmakers have re-appropriated and adapted texts of the Victorian era as a way to 'write back' to the imperial centre. At the same time, the rise of international co-productions and multinational media corporations have called into question the effectiveness of postcolonial rewritings of canonical texts as a resistance strategy. With case studies of films like Gunga Din, Dracula 2000, The Portrait of a Lady, Vanity Fair and Slumdog Millionaire, this book argues that many postcolonial filmmakers have extended resistance beyond revisionary adaptation, opting to interrogate Hollywood's genre conventions and production methods to address how globalization has affected and continues to influence their homelands.
David Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846316555
- eISBN:
- 9781846316692
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316692.019
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter considers the specific challenge posed to previous conceptions of French Studies by the field's engagement with the specific ‘transnational’ form of questioning involved in the ...
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This chapter considers the specific challenge posed to previous conceptions of French Studies by the field's engagement with the specific ‘transnational’ form of questioning involved in the development of postcolonial teaching and research. It explores whether the development of francophone postcolonial studies represents the demise or the rebirth of the French department. It suggests that while it is possible that French Studies engagement with the postcolonial will open up exciting research trajectories, changes in teaching and the curriculum may be harder to achieve in some institutions.Less
This chapter considers the specific challenge posed to previous conceptions of French Studies by the field's engagement with the specific ‘transnational’ form of questioning involved in the development of postcolonial teaching and research. It explores whether the development of francophone postcolonial studies represents the demise or the rebirth of the French department. It suggests that while it is possible that French Studies engagement with the postcolonial will open up exciting research trajectories, changes in teaching and the curriculum may be harder to achieve in some institutions.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823285839
- eISBN:
- 9780823288823
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823285839.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, ...
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Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial Bergson traces the influence of Bergson’s thought through the work of two major figures in the postcolonial struggle, Muhammad Iqbal and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Poets and statesmen as well as philosophers, both of these thinkers—the one Muslim and the other Catholic—played an essential political and intellectual role in the independence of their respective countries. Both found, in Bergson’s work, important support for their philosophical, cultural, and political projects. For Iqbal, a founding father of independent Pakistan, Bergson’s conceptions of time and creative evolution resonated with the need for the “reconstruction of religious thought in Islam,” a religious thought newly able to incorporate innovation and change. For Senghor, Bergsonian ideas of perception, intuition, and élan vital—filtered in part through the work of the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin—proved crucial for thinking about African art, as well as foundational for his formulations of African socialism and his visions of an unalienated African future. At a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.Less
Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial Bergson traces the influence of Bergson’s thought through the work of two major figures in the postcolonial struggle, Muhammad Iqbal and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Poets and statesmen as well as philosophers, both of these thinkers—the one Muslim and the other Catholic—played an essential political and intellectual role in the independence of their respective countries. Both found, in Bergson’s work, important support for their philosophical, cultural, and political projects. For Iqbal, a founding father of independent Pakistan, Bergson’s conceptions of time and creative evolution resonated with the need for the “reconstruction of religious thought in Islam,” a religious thought newly able to incorporate innovation and change. For Senghor, Bergsonian ideas of perception, intuition, and élan vital—filtered in part through the work of the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin—proved crucial for thinking about African art, as well as foundational for his formulations of African socialism and his visions of an unalienated African future. At a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.
Wail S. Hassan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199792061
- eISBN:
- 9780199919239
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199792061.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Arab immigrants began to arrive in the United States in the late-nineteenth century and in Britain after World War Two. Those immigrants have produced a vast literature that remains relatively ...
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Arab immigrants began to arrive in the United States in the late-nineteenth century and in Britain after World War Two. Those immigrants have produced a vast literature that remains relatively unknown outside of specialist circles. Like other ethnic literatures, Arab-American and Arab-British writing treats a variety of themes such as the immigrant experience, the lives of minorities, cultural misconceptions, and stereotypes. In addition to that, Arab immigrant writing also reveals unique perspectives on complex issues that continue to shape our world today, such as inter-faith relations, the tangled politics of the Middle East, the role played first by the British empire then by the United States in the region, the representations of Arabs and Arab culture in British and American societies, and the status of Muslim minorities there. Although those issues have acquired an unprecedented urgency in the post-9/11 period, they have preoccupied Arab-American and Arab-British writers since the early days of the twentieth century. While this book is not a comprehensive literary history, it offers a critical reading of that tradition from its inception to the present. Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key novelists and autobiographers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.Less
Arab immigrants began to arrive in the United States in the late-nineteenth century and in Britain after World War Two. Those immigrants have produced a vast literature that remains relatively unknown outside of specialist circles. Like other ethnic literatures, Arab-American and Arab-British writing treats a variety of themes such as the immigrant experience, the lives of minorities, cultural misconceptions, and stereotypes. In addition to that, Arab immigrant writing also reveals unique perspectives on complex issues that continue to shape our world today, such as inter-faith relations, the tangled politics of the Middle East, the role played first by the British empire then by the United States in the region, the representations of Arabs and Arab culture in British and American societies, and the status of Muslim minorities there. Although those issues have acquired an unprecedented urgency in the post-9/11 period, they have preoccupied Arab-American and Arab-British writers since the early days of the twentieth century. While this book is not a comprehensive literary history, it offers a critical reading of that tradition from its inception to the present. Drawing upon postcolonial, translation, and minority discourse theory, Immigrant Narratives investigates how key novelists and autobiographers have described their immigrant experiences, and in so doing acted as mediators and interpreters between cultures, and how they have forged new identities in their adopted countries.
Robin Fiddian
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853235668
- eISBN:
- 9781846313851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235668.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter explores the possible links between postcolonial studies and the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. The essay of J. Jorge Klor de Alva is dealt to formulate both the ...
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This chapter explores the possible links between postcolonial studies and the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. The essay of J. Jorge Klor de Alva is dealt to formulate both the temporal and geopolitical dimension, and the critical dimension of postcoloniality. These dimensions are described by Peter Hulme and Walter Mignolo in ‘Including America’ and ‘La razón postcolonial: herencias coloniales y teorías postcoloniales’, respectively. This chapter reveals that the associations with Latin America situate Lusophone Africa within an even wider network of political and cultural relations. An overview of the chapters included in this book is presented.Less
This chapter explores the possible links between postcolonial studies and the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. The essay of J. Jorge Klor de Alva is dealt to formulate both the temporal and geopolitical dimension, and the critical dimension of postcoloniality. These dimensions are described by Peter Hulme and Walter Mignolo in ‘Including America’ and ‘La razón postcolonial: herencias coloniales y teorías postcoloniales’, respectively. This chapter reveals that the associations with Latin America situate Lusophone Africa within an even wider network of political and cultural relations. An overview of the chapters included in this book is presented.
Anshuman A. Mondal
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070044
- eISBN:
- 9781781701102
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070044.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing ...
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This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing all of Amitav Ghosh's writings to date, it takes a thematic approach that enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the ‘postcolonial’ — in particular, its relation to postmodernism.Less
This is a critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. Encompassing all of Amitav Ghosh's writings to date, it takes a thematic approach that enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the ‘postcolonial’ — in particular, its relation to postmodernism.
Samia Mehrez (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774165337
- eISBN:
- 9781617971303
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165337.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness ...
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This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator. The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, and interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.Less
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator. The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, and interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.
Robert Stam and Ella Shohat
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814798379
- eISBN:
- 9780814723920
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814798379.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in ...
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While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. This book charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the United States, France, and Brazil. The book traces the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. It also interrogates an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Nicholas Sarkozy and David Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the diasporic and the transnational.Less
While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. This book charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the United States, France, and Brazil. The book traces the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. It also interrogates an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Nicholas Sarkozy and David Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the diasporic and the transnational.
Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310546
- eISBN:
- 9781846319808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846319808.025
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Postcolonial studies – or postcolonial theory – has been a firmly established discipline within the Anglophone academy. In France, however, it has gained legitimacy only in English-language contexts ...
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Postcolonial studies – or postcolonial theory – has been a firmly established discipline within the Anglophone academy. In France, however, it has gained legitimacy only in English-language contexts owing to conservatism in French universities, resistance to a school of thought that proposes a critical interpretation of universalism, and rejection of the ‘national narrative’ and republican history. Contrary to the notion that postcolonialism simply mirrors a reconfiguration of ‘Third Worldism’ or an ‘anachronistic’ resurgence of anti-colonialism, postcolonial thought is inexorably opposed to teleology. On one hand, it is associated with violence triggered by a cogent use of reason, a manifestation of which is colonialism. On the other hand, postcolonial thought highlights the conflict between a particular form of European ethics and the implementation of a set of colonial and postcolonial politics and practices characterised by excessive violence, both real and symbolic.Less
Postcolonial studies – or postcolonial theory – has been a firmly established discipline within the Anglophone academy. In France, however, it has gained legitimacy only in English-language contexts owing to conservatism in French universities, resistance to a school of thought that proposes a critical interpretation of universalism, and rejection of the ‘national narrative’ and republican history. Contrary to the notion that postcolonialism simply mirrors a reconfiguration of ‘Third Worldism’ or an ‘anachronistic’ resurgence of anti-colonialism, postcolonial thought is inexorably opposed to teleology. On one hand, it is associated with violence triggered by a cogent use of reason, a manifestation of which is colonialism. On the other hand, postcolonial thought highlights the conflict between a particular form of European ethics and the implementation of a set of colonial and postcolonial politics and practices characterised by excessive violence, both real and symbolic.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314803
- eISBN:
- 9781846317132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317132.002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
For years, postcolonial studies as a discipline has used diaspora theory to describe minoritarian agency. Defined by an anti-nationalist politics and the alloying effect of post-independence ...
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For years, postcolonial studies as a discipline has used diaspora theory to describe minoritarian agency. Defined by an anti-nationalist politics and the alloying effect of post-independence commonwealth immigration, postcolonial critics and authors such as Paul Gilroy, Hanif Kureishi, Stuart Hall, and Wilson Harris have rejected a form of root-less/route-oriented to a concept of ‘arborescent’ belonging. This book explores the place of the asylum seeker before the law and considers what Vikki Squire says is the ‘dislocation of a territorial order of governance and belonging’, whereby the anxieties caused by European integration and/or globalisation are assuaged by exclusionary asylum politics. Drawing on documents from personal letters and gifts to photographs, legal correspondence and newspaper clippings, the book focuses on asylum seekers and the asylum regimes of Australia and the United Kingdom.Less
For years, postcolonial studies as a discipline has used diaspora theory to describe minoritarian agency. Defined by an anti-nationalist politics and the alloying effect of post-independence commonwealth immigration, postcolonial critics and authors such as Paul Gilroy, Hanif Kureishi, Stuart Hall, and Wilson Harris have rejected a form of root-less/route-oriented to a concept of ‘arborescent’ belonging. This book explores the place of the asylum seeker before the law and considers what Vikki Squire says is the ‘dislocation of a territorial order of governance and belonging’, whereby the anxieties caused by European integration and/or globalisation are assuaged by exclusionary asylum politics. Drawing on documents from personal letters and gifts to photographs, legal correspondence and newspaper clippings, the book focuses on asylum seekers and the asylum regimes of Australia and the United Kingdom.
Mary Youssef
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474415415
- eISBN:
- 9781474449755
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415415.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign ...
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This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state by basking in its perceived unity. After independence, the novel professed disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, without disrupting the nation’s imagined racial and ethno-religious homogeneity. This book identifies a trend in the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel that shatters this singular view, with the rise of a new consciousness that presents Egypt as fundamentally heterogeneous. Through a robust analysis of “new-consciousness” novels by authors like Idris ᶜAli, Bahaᵓ Tahir, Miral al-Tahawi, and Yusuf Zaydan, the author argues that this new consciousness does not only respond to predominant discourses of difference and practices of differentiation along the axes of race, ethno-religion, class, and gender by bringing the experiences of Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, and women minorities to the fore of Egypt’s literary imaginary, but also heralds the cacophony of voices that collectively cried for social justice from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s 2011-uprising.
This study responds to the changing iconographic, semiotic, and formal features of the Egyptian novel. It fulfills the critical task of identifying an emergent novelistic genre and develops historically reflexive methodologies that interpret new-consciousness novels and their mediatory role in formalizing and articulating their historical moment. By adopting this context-specific approach to studying novelistic evolution, this book locates some of the strands that have been missing from the complex whole of Egypt’s culture and literary history.Less
This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state by basking in its perceived unity. After independence, the novel professed disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, without disrupting the nation’s imagined racial and ethno-religious homogeneity. This book identifies a trend in the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel that shatters this singular view, with the rise of a new consciousness that presents Egypt as fundamentally heterogeneous. Through a robust analysis of “new-consciousness” novels by authors like Idris ᶜAli, Bahaᵓ Tahir, Miral al-Tahawi, and Yusuf Zaydan, the author argues that this new consciousness does not only respond to predominant discourses of difference and practices of differentiation along the axes of race, ethno-religion, class, and gender by bringing the experiences of Nubian, Amazigh, Bedouin, Coptic, Jewish, and women minorities to the fore of Egypt’s literary imaginary, but also heralds the cacophony of voices that collectively cried for social justice from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s 2011-uprising.
This study responds to the changing iconographic, semiotic, and formal features of the Egyptian novel. It fulfills the critical task of identifying an emergent novelistic genre and develops historically reflexive methodologies that interpret new-consciousness novels and their mediatory role in formalizing and articulating their historical moment. By adopting this context-specific approach to studying novelistic evolution, this book locates some of the strands that have been missing from the complex whole of Egypt’s culture and literary history.
Rosemary Chapman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846319730
- eISBN:
- 9781781381090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846319730.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
The first part of the Introduction discusses the nature and function of literary history, its underlying assumptions, its various narratives and its component parts. In particular it considers the ...
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The first part of the Introduction discusses the nature and function of literary history, its underlying assumptions, its various narratives and its component parts. In particular it considers the problematic nature of the focus on nation that has typified literary history since the nineteenth century, nationhood and nationalism being central to any discussion of the literature of a colonized population. The second part of the Introduction considers how the writing of the literary history of francophone Canada has responded to a very particular colonial situation, francophones of European descent having been both colonizers and colonized. Work in the area of postcolonial studies provides fruitful insights into many of the issues raised.Less
The first part of the Introduction discusses the nature and function of literary history, its underlying assumptions, its various narratives and its component parts. In particular it considers the problematic nature of the focus on nation that has typified literary history since the nineteenth century, nationhood and nationalism being central to any discussion of the literature of a colonized population. The second part of the Introduction considers how the writing of the literary history of francophone Canada has responded to a very particular colonial situation, francophones of European descent having been both colonizers and colonized. Work in the area of postcolonial studies provides fruitful insights into many of the issues raised.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314803
- eISBN:
- 9781846317132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317132.009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Postcolonial studies can engage productively with new global power formations by taking into account the figure of the asylum seeker within the camp dispositif. This is easier said than done, ...
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Postcolonial studies can engage productively with new global power formations by taking into account the figure of the asylum seeker within the camp dispositif. This is easier said than done, however, because of the discipline's tendency to innately push and pull against itself. This book has explored the interaction between postcolonial studies and the experiences of asylum seekers in terms of the ban and the citizen's ‘we’, both of which exemplify inclusive-exclusive relationships. These terms must be set to work upon each other in order to unsettle the terms of belonging and hospitality. In Western countries, a pressing issue confronting asylum regimes is the atrophication of dignity to the vanishing point of bare life.Less
Postcolonial studies can engage productively with new global power formations by taking into account the figure of the asylum seeker within the camp dispositif. This is easier said than done, however, because of the discipline's tendency to innately push and pull against itself. This book has explored the interaction between postcolonial studies and the experiences of asylum seekers in terms of the ban and the citizen's ‘we’, both of which exemplify inclusive-exclusive relationships. These terms must be set to work upon each other in order to unsettle the terms of belonging and hospitality. In Western countries, a pressing issue confronting asylum regimes is the atrophication of dignity to the vanishing point of bare life.
Benjamin Soares
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748622856
- eISBN:
- 9780748670635
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622856.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
In a work that challenges the notion that fundamentalism is an appropriate analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies, Benjamin Soares explores different, and often seemingly contradictory, ...
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In a work that challenges the notion that fundamentalism is an appropriate analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies, Benjamin Soares explores different, and often seemingly contradictory, ways of being Muslim in Mali. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, he traces the transformations in ideas about Islam and authority and conventions of religious practice in a major Islamic religious centre from the late nineteenth century, through French colonial rule, and in the postcolonial period. Drawing on extensive ethnography, archival research, and written sources, he provides a richly detailed discussion of Muslim religious practice—Sufism, Islamic reform, and other ways of being Muslim—in Nioro du Sahel in western Mali and more broadly in the country. Using an original analytical perspective, he shows the historical importance of more standardized ways of being Muslim and the centrality of exceptional charismatic leaders, Muslim saints, in the development of 'the prayer economy' in the postcolonial period. He analyzes some of the contradictions and tensions in this economy of religious practice in which certain Muslim saints offer blessings and prayers in exchange for substantial gifts. In addition, he considers the implications of the recent expansion of the public sphere and increased global interconnections for the practice of Islam. This study is a major contribution to the study of Islam in Africa and will be welcomed by scholars and students in history, religion, and the social sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology, Islam, colonialism and the public sphere.Less
In a work that challenges the notion that fundamentalism is an appropriate analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies, Benjamin Soares explores different, and often seemingly contradictory, ways of being Muslim in Mali. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, he traces the transformations in ideas about Islam and authority and conventions of religious practice in a major Islamic religious centre from the late nineteenth century, through French colonial rule, and in the postcolonial period. Drawing on extensive ethnography, archival research, and written sources, he provides a richly detailed discussion of Muslim religious practice—Sufism, Islamic reform, and other ways of being Muslim—in Nioro du Sahel in western Mali and more broadly in the country. Using an original analytical perspective, he shows the historical importance of more standardized ways of being Muslim and the centrality of exceptional charismatic leaders, Muslim saints, in the development of 'the prayer economy' in the postcolonial period. He analyzes some of the contradictions and tensions in this economy of religious practice in which certain Muslim saints offer blessings and prayers in exchange for substantial gifts. In addition, he considers the implications of the recent expansion of the public sphere and increased global interconnections for the practice of Islam. This study is a major contribution to the study of Islam in Africa and will be welcomed by scholars and students in history, religion, and the social sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology, Islam, colonialism and the public sphere.
