Representation matters: (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world
In the twenty-first century, the terms "representation" and "identity" seem to have gone out of fashion. The essays collected here, however, seek to demonstrate the extent to which they continue to matter in the social, political and cultural strug.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam New York
Rodopi
c2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Edition: | Online-Ausg. |
| Series/Journal: | Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race 1570-7253
no. 20 Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Ser |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Non-Western world
/ Postcolonialism
/ Group identity
/ Cultural identity
/ Representation (Philosophy)
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Collection of essays
B Representation (Philosophy) Electronic books B Group Identity B Identity Politics B Representation (Philosophy) B Electronic books B Identity (Psychology) |
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| Summary: | In the twenty-first century, the terms "representation" and "identity" seem to have gone out of fashion. The essays collected here, however, seek to demonstrate the extent to which they continue to matter in the social, political and cultural strug. Intro -- Representation Matters: (Re)Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World -- Contents -- Introduction: Representation Matters -- I. Concepts of Postcolonial Identity: Contingent Articulations -- Alterity and Identities: The Paradoxes of Authenticity -- Insularity and Identity at Odds in Martinique: 1973 to 2004 -- The West between Culture(s) and Collective Identity: Notes for a Present Problematic -- Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African National Identity -- Resistance or Compliance?: The Problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's Paintings -- II. Relational Histories -- Romani Identity Formation and the Globalization of Holocaust Discourse -- Similarity and Difference: The Appearance of Suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum -- III. Rethinking Origins and Indigeneity -- Resignifying Genesis, Identity, and Landscape: Routes versus Roots -- From Salsipuedes to Tabaré: Race, Space, and the Uruguayan Subject -- Bolivian Indigenous Identities: Reshaping the Terms of Political Debate, 1994-2004 -- IV. Reinventing Tradition -- Performative Constructions of Female Identity at a Hindu Ritual: Some Thoughts on the Agentive Dimension -- "We Are Like Fish That Were Reeled In": Peasant Understandings of Modernity in Zimbabwe -- Silence, Absence, Loss: Chineseness in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia -- Moving Identities: Mythology and Metaphor in André Brink's Praying Mantis -- The Contributors -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 1282792768 |