A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and Its Empires

ISBN-13: 9780748644827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 688 str.

Poddar, Prem

Opis

Regional Editors: John Beverley, Charles Forsdick, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Theo D'haen, Lars Jensen, Birthe Kundrus, Elizabeth Monasterios, Phillip Rothwell. Your complete reference to the postcolonial literatures of Continental European Empires. Written by expert scholars in the fields of postcolonial studies, the entries cover major events, ideas, movements and figures in postcolonial histories. The entries range from the first European overseas the first explorations, settlements and colonies right up to decolonisation. They highlight the relevance of colonial histories to the cultural, social, political and literary formations of contemporary postcolonial societies and nations.By outlining the historical contexts of postcolonial literatures, the companion unlocks contemporary debates about race, colonialism & neo-colonialism, politics, economics, culture and language.

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Preface, Walter Mignolo; INTRODUCTION, Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen; Acknowledgements; General editors & section editors; List of maps; Map 1: World Colonisation 1550; A selective chronology; Map 2: World Colonisation 1914; BELGIUM & ITS COLONIES; Map 3: The Belgian Colonial Empire; Introduction, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anthropology & Ethnography, Maarten Couttenier (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Anticolonial Resistance, Carina Yervasi (Swarthmore College); Belgian Imperial Policy, Martin Shipway (Birkbeck College, University of London); Belgian Missionaries in the Congo, Pascale Stacey (Liverpool University); Colonial & Postcolonial Exhibitions, Sabine Cornélis (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Brussels); Comics & the Belgian Congo, Nancy Hunt (Michigan University); Evolués, Priscilla Ringrose (Trondheim University); Historiography: The Belgian Congo, Pascale Stacey & Victoria Reid (Liverpool University); Kimbangu, Anne Mélice (Liège University); Leopold II, Lieve Spaas (Kingston University, London); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Mobutu, Priscilla Appama (Universit de Franche-Comt, Besanon, France); Narratives of Empire: Postcolonial Congo, Pierre Halen (Paul Verlaine-Metz University); The Red Rubber Scandal, Aisling Campbell (Liverpool University); The Rwanda Genocide of the 1990s, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); André Ryckmans, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); Pierre Ryckmans, Thérèse Dé Raedt (Utah University) ; The Scramble for the Congo, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Tippu Tip, Fiona Barclay (University of Glasgow); DENMARK AND ITS COLONIES; Map 4: Denmark and Norway: Colonial Possessions c.1800; Introduction, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Abolition of Slavery, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Anthropology, Greenland and Colonialism, Ole Høiris (Aarhus University); Charter Companies, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Colonial Exhibitions, Cheralyn Mealor (Aar