Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination

ISBN-13: 9789004335264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str.

Susanne Mühleisen

Opis

This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well as in postcolonial texts and media. Both in actual and in imagined communities, membership is constructed on an assumption of shared features be it common values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, professional group or joint interests and practices. But how is membership in such communities achieved, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms of community have developed in the wake of globalisation, translocation and digital media communication? Eighteen contributions by scholars in linguistics, literary and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory and trauma in processes of belonging or unbelonging in postcolonial contexts."

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List of Tables and FiguresI: ON COMMUNITYIntroduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and ExclusionSUSANNE MÜHLEISENCommunity and the CommonROBERT JC YOUNGII: COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITYThe Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical PerspectiveSTEPHANIE HACKERTOrality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First CenturyDARIA DAYTERPrestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora CommunitiesSUSANNE MÜHLEISEN & ANNE SCHRÖDERDiasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined CommunityANDREA MOLL'Africa is not a Game': Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities OnlineERIC A. ANCHIMBEThe Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How?DAGMAR DEUBERIII: NARRATING ACROSS THE NATIONThuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial IndiaTOBIAS DÖRINGHaunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy's SoucouyantKATJA SARKOWSKYWhose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the 'New' South AfricaJOCHEN PETZOLDOrientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof FenceSTEPHAN LAQUÉA 'furry subjunctive case' of Empathy: Human-Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary AnthropomorphismROMAN BARTOSCHMigration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville's Short Story "Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water"SUSAN ARNDTIV: LANGUAGE,STYLE, AND BELONGING INMUSIC CULTURESCommunity and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and ReggaetónBRITTA SCHNEIDERLanguage Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in UgandaJUDE SSEMPUUMAV: COUNTER-ARGUMENTCross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of TranslationCAROLYN COOPERAt Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper's Keynote Lecture "Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation"CAROLINE KOEGLERNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Susanne Mühleisen is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She has published monographs and many articles on language and discourse in Caribbean and African speech communities as well as on translation of Creole and postcolonial literature. SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN is Professor of English Linguistics at Bayreuth University with a research and publication focus on English/contact varieties, pragmatics, and discourse communities in Africa and the Caribbean. A wide range of interests in postcolonial issues has also resulted in interdisciplinary collaborations, e.g., on postcolonial crime fiction, foodways, and Caribbean commodification.