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1 online resource (vii, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Introduction / Silvia Albertazzi, Francesco Cattani, Rita Monticelli, Federica Zullo -- Part I. Geopolitical passages. The challenge of invisible cities : a Calvinian adventure through literature and contemporary art / Bertrand Westphal -- Haunted cartographies : towards a postcolonial "gynealogy" of mapmaking / Laura Lo Presti -- Passage to Afro-Britain : Ferdinand Dennis's Behind the frontlines and Colin Luke's Black safari / Francesco Cattani -- Part II. Passages in theory. An act of love : Midnight's children's passage into the third millennium / Silvia Albertazzi -- Beyond the postcolonial : the case of the Indian novel between translation and world literature / Rossella Ciocca -- The question of value : between literary and postcolonial studies / Serena Guarracino -- Post-postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century : migration as a translation of the world / Giuseppe Sofo -- Part III. Migrations. Forms of loss : dead bodies and other objects / Nicoletta Vallorani -- "Dump it in the toilet" : on the use(lessness) of the passport / Ewa Macura-Nnamdi -- Passes and passages : Anthony Cartwright's Heartland and the multifaceted game of identity / Luigi Franchi -- Foreigners in, foreigners out : J.M. Coetzee's and Christoph Schlingensief's allegories of migration / Mara Mattoscio -- Part IV. Omitted identities. Performing ethnicities : Richard Francis Burton's pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah / Silvia Antosa -- Transatlantic women connections and slave stories : Strange music, a neo-Victorian novel by Laura Fish / Federica Zullo -- "You're not real" : the vanishing Native American and time travel in Sherman Alexie's Flight / Serena I. Volpi -- A passage to Gibraltar : alterity and representation in M.G. Sanchez / Esterino Adami -- Part V. Multimedia passages. Crossing the borders of jazz, language and identity : Michael Ondaatje's Coming through slaughter / Pierpaolo Martino -- The omission of Palestine and Rafeef Ziadah's spoken poetry : decolonising the postcolonial / Luigi Cazzato -- From Marikana to #RhodesMustFall : a multimedia history / Pier Paolo Frassinelli -- Citations of "difference" : human/non-human, mutations, and contaminations in utopian/dystopian television series / Rita Monticelli |
| Summary |
While entailing a subversive re-vision of colonial histories, geographies, and subjectivities, the (post)colonial condition has unleashed a chain of movements, relocations, and re-writings that interrogate the globalized and neoliberal society. Ethnic, "racial", religious, gendered, and sexual identities have been called into question, and requested to (re)define, name, and re-name themselves, to find new ways to tell their stories/histories. The very term "postcolonial" has triggered well-known controversial debates: its adoption is significant of a cultural politics involving the colonial past, controversial crisis in the present, and an open perspective toward alternative futures. Confronting literature and the arts from a postcolonial perspective is a critical and political task involving theories and cultural productions crossing barriers amongst fields of knowledge. The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse yet interrelated cultural fields.-- Publisher's website |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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English literature -- Political aspects.
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Language and culture -- English-speaking countries
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Political aspects
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Language and culture
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Postcolonialism in literature
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English-speaking countries
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Albertazzi, Silvia, editor
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Cattani, Francesco, editor
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Monticelli, Rita, editor
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Zullo, Federica, editor
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| ISBN |
9781527525627 |
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1527525627 |
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