Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings: Cultures and Discourses on the Edge

ISBN-13: 9782807600539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Salhia Ben-Messahel; Vanessa Castejon

Opis

This interdisciplinary study investigates the ways in which colonialism/imperialism has generated a post-colonial condition and how such a condition is interpreted in the 21^st century and above all in a global environment.

Spis treści

Contents: Salhia Ben-Messahel/Vanessa Castejon: Introduction - Paolo de Meideros: Postcolonial Memories and the Shattered Self - Elisabeth Bouzonviller: Dorris and Erdrich's The Crown of Columbus, or Building Up a Hybrid Version of 1492 for a New, Mixed-Blood America - André Dodeman: Alistair MacLeod's Engagement with the Modern World in No Great Mischief (1999) and Island (2001) - Vanessa Castejon/Anna Cole/Oliver Haag: European Views of the Indigenous «Other», A Study of Responses to Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah - Paul Giffard-Foret: In Trans/Action: Materialising Cultural Dissent, Activising Asian Australian Communities - Salhia Ben-Messahel: Australian spaces, the Reconfiguring of Cultural Maps and Enrootings - Sabine Lauret: «What sort of world would they build on our remains». Postcolonial Anxiety in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef - Laurence Randall: Calixthe Beyala's Fiction: Disguised Writing? - Sharon Baptiste: The Evolution of the Black Cultural Archives: 1981-2015 - Fouad Nohra: Arab Post-colonial Ideologies versus Colonial Political Legacy. The case of Arab Nationalism.

O autorze

Salhia Ben-Messahel is an Associate Professor at Université de Lille-SHS. She is the author of Mind the Country, Tim Winton's Fiction (2006) and Des Frontières de l'Interculturalité (2009). She has also published Globaletics and Radicant Aesthetics in Australian Fiction (2017).

Vanessa Castejon is an Associate Professor at University Paris 13. She has explored Indigeneity and politics in Australia (Les Aborigènes et l'apartheid politique australien, 2005), the representation of Indigenous people in Europe and transcultural history through Ego-histoire (Ngapartji, Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn: Egohistoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia, 2014).