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 struggles waged by marginalized commu...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hoffmann, Anette, 1965-, Peeren, Esther
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 20.
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Zusammenfassung: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 struggles waged by marginalized communities across our postcolonial and globalizing world. The volume starts by offering contingent readings of prominent identity-related concepts -- hybridity, insularity, the west, ubuntu, and orientalism -- which ask how these concepts translate into practical, situated ways of grappling with the legacies of colonialism. It continues by exploring the relational articulation of collective identities and their histories (as shared rather than competing), and the way origin narratives and notions of Indigeneity, in contexts as diverse as Namibia, Uruguay and Bolivia, function not as fixed roots, but as constructed representations that are manipulated according to the demands of the present. Finally, tradition, too, emerges as open to continuous strategic re-invention in contributions dealing with female agency in a Hindu ritual, peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe, the resurgence of Chinese culture in Indonesia, and André Brink's rewriting of South African history.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789042028463
9042028467
9789042028456
9042028459
1282792768
9781282792760
9786612792762
6612792760
ISSN:1570-7253 ;

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