Postcolonial studies across the disciplines /
Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history,...
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Amsterdam ; New York :
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| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
170. ASNEL papers ; 18. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : postcolonial studies across the disciplines / Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier
- Interdisciplinary reflections
- Postcolonial studies and Atlantic studies : interdisciplinary reflections on slavery and empire / Tim Watson
- Postcolonial textiles : negotiating dialogue / Jessica Hemmings
- Masking the White gaze : towards a postcolonial art history of masks / Melanie Ulz
- From bush talk to nation language : language attitudes in Jamaica before and after independence / Andrea Sand
- Track studies : popular music and postcolonial analysis / Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt
- Postcolonial cultural studies : writing a Zulu woman back into history / Ellen Grünkmeier
- Interdisciplinary Atlantic studies
- Postcolonial pursuits in African American studies : the later poems of Claude McKay / Timo Müller
- "Mainly storytelling and play-acting" : theatricality and the Middle Passage in Barry Unsworth's Sacred hunger / Carl Plasa
- Negotiating family models in Jamaican literature : class, race, and religion / Henning Marquardt
- Transatlantic representations of the revolution in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century and the Haitian turn / Anja Bandau
- Writing off-centre : global imagination and modernism in the short fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey / Sarah Fekadu
- Emancipation and protest : Moravian mission and the labour strike in St. Kitts / Jan Hüsgen
- The perspectives of African elites on slavery and abolition on the Gold Coast (1860-1900) : newspapers as sources / Steffen Runkel
- Fragile modernities : history and historiography in contemporary African fiction / Frank Schulze-Engler.
- Crossovers : historiography, fiction, criticism
- Historiographic Indian English fiction : Indira Ghandi's emergency rule in Midnight's Children, The great Indian novel, and A fine balance / Matthias Galler
- Kaliyattam (The play of God) by Jayaraj : polymorphous and postcolonial poetics in an Indian Othello adaptation / Cecile Sandten
- Othering otherness : Stephen Muecke's fictocriticism and the cosmopolitan vision / Dennis Mischke
- Postcolonial studies in research and teaching
- the (inter)disciplinarity of postcolonial research / Ursula Kluwick
- Lessons for a-disciplinarity : some notes on what happens to an Americanist when she takes slavery seriously / Sabine Broeck
- Postcolonial studies as a discipline : an external perspective on administrative headaches / Janou Glencross
- On the challenge of de-provincializing the university classroom : teaching African history from a postcolonial perspective / Brigitte Reinwald
- Studying Anglophone literatures and cultures in a world of globalized modernity : notes on the "Frankfurt experience" / Frank Schulze-Engler
- Postcolonial readings in German secondary education / Elinor Jane Pohl
- Cross-cultural pedagogical practices : understanding the German context / Mala Pandurang
- Teaching India in the German EFL classroom : issues and problems / Reinhold Wandel.
