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 strug.

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Другие авторы: Hoffmann, Anette (Другой) ; Peeren, Esther (Другой)
Формат: Электронный ресурс
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Amsterdam New York Rodopi c2010
В:Год: 2010
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Серии журналов/журналы:Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race 1570-7253 no. 20
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Ser
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Nichtwestliche Welt / Постколониализм (мотив) / Идентификация личности с группой / Культурная идентичность (мотив) / Репрезентация (философия) (Философия (мотив))
Другие ключевые слова:B Representation (Philosophy) Electronic books
B Group Identity
B Сборник статей
B Identity Politics
B Representation (Philosophy)
B Electronic books
B Identity (Psychology)
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Итог: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 strug.
Intro -- Representation Matters: (Re)Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World -- Contents -- Introduction: Representation Matters -- I. Concepts of Postcolonial Identity: Contingent Articulations -- Alterity and Identities: The Paradoxes of Authenticity -- Insularity and Identity at Odds in Martinique: 1973 to 2004 -- The West between Culture(s) and Collective Identity: Notes for a Present Problematic -- Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African National Identity -- Resistance or Compliance?: The Problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's Paintings -- II. Relational Histories -- Romani Identity Formation and the Globalization of Holocaust Discourse -- Similarity and Difference: The Appearance of Suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum -- III. Rethinking Origins and Indigeneity -- Resignifying Genesis, Identity, and Landscape: Routes versus Roots -- From Salsipuedes to Tabaré: Race, Space, and the Uruguayan Subject -- Bolivian Indigenous Identities: Reshaping the Terms of Political Debate, 1994-2004 -- IV. Reinventing Tradition -- Performative Constructions of Female Identity at a Hindu Ritual: Some Thoughts on the Agentive Dimension -- "We Are Like Fish That Were Reeled In": Peasant Understandings of Modernity in Zimbabwe -- Silence, Absence, Loss: Chineseness in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia -- Moving Identities: Mythology and Metaphor in André Brink's Praying Mantis -- The Contributors -- Index.
Примечание:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:1282792768