Histories, Myths and Decolonial Interventions: A Planetary Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780367534561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 152 str.

Arti Nirmal; Sayan Dey

Opis

This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are carried in culture, language and history in various parts of the world.

Spis treści

List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction Part 1: Marching Memories: Histories, Myths and Fantasies 1. The ‘Good Italian’ fable and the case of Dodecanese 2. Decolonizing Sinixt "Extinction": Settler Allies in Indigenous Resurgence 3. Legtimizing Myths and Legends: The Social Construction of Gendered Stereotypes 4. Islanded Hauntings: Sri lanka’s Seascape Imaginaries and Mythico-histories of the Insular Part 2: Everyday Decoloniality: Engagements and Experiences of Everyday Life 5. Decolonial Re-existence and the Myths of Knowledge Production 6. Re-visioning and Revision-ing the ‘Nation’: Teaching History and Mythology to the Children of the Parivar 6. ‘Pustuled Sufferer and Pitted Survivor’: A Decolonial Reading of Small Pox Narratives in India 7. A Decolonial Dreaming. Index.