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Title A historical companion to postcolonial literatures : continental Europe and its empires / edited by Prem Poddar, Rajeev S. Patke and Lars Jensen.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (liii, 633 pages) : maps
text file
Note Includes graphical cross-reference mapper.
Summary Provides an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain as well as places like Latin America and the Philippines.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Introduction -- Postcolonial Europe / Prem Poddar / Rajeev S. Patke / Lars Jensen -- Part II. Belgium and its Colonies -- Introduction / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- Anthropology and Ethnography / Maarten Couttenier -- Anti-colonial Resistance / Carina Yervasi -- The 'Arab Campaign' / Philippe Marechal -- Colonial and Postcolonial Exhibitions / Sabine Cornélis -- Comics and the Belgian Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Évolués / Priscilla Ringrose -- Historiography : The Belgian Congo / Pascale Stacey and Victoria Reid -- Imperial Policy / Martin Shipway -- Simon Kimbangu / Anne Mélice -- Leopold II / Lieve Spaas -- Patrice Émery Lumumba / Carina Yervasi -- Missionaries in the Congo / Pascale Stacey -- Mobutu / Priscilla R. Appama -- Narratives of Empire : (Post)colonial Congo / Pierre Halen -- Red Rubber Scandal / Aisling Campbell -- Rwanda Genocide of the 1990s / Colette Braeckman -- André Ryckmans / Heidi Bojsen -- Pierre Ryckmans / Thérèse Dé Raedt -- Scramble for the Congo / Colette Braeckman -- Tippu Tip / Fiona Barclay -- Part II. Denmark and its Colonies -- Introduction / Lars Jensen -- Abolition of Slavery / Lars Jensen -- Anthropology / Greenland and Colonialism / Ole Høiris -- Charter Companies / Lars Jensen -- Colonial Exhibitions / Cheralyn Mealor -- Creolisation / Heidi Bojsen -- Greenlandic Colonial Administration / Mette Rønsager -- Greenlandic Writers / Karen Langgård -- N.F.S. Grundtvig / Lars Jensen -- Thorkild Hansen and the Critique of Empire / Marianne Stecher-Hansen -- Historiography / Michael Bregnsbo -- Home Rule / Lars Jensen -- Migrancy / Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen -- Missions in the Danish-Norwegian Colonies / Louise Sebro -- Modernisation of Greenland / Klaus Georg Hansen -- Narratives and Fictions of Empire / Claire Thomson -- Orientalism and Exoticism / John Botofte -- Race and Ethnicity, Greenland / Karen Langgård -- Knud Rasmussen / Nanna Folke Olsen -- Thule / Pia Krüger Johansen -- Tropical Colonies / Esther Fihl -- Viking Settlements / Lasse Wolsgård -- PartIII. France and its Colonies -- Introduction / Charles Forsdick -- Algerian War / Nicholas Harrison -- Anthropology and Ethnography / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture -- Anti-colonialism / Andy Stafford -- Colonial Administration / Tony Chafer -- Colonial Education / Claire Griffiths -- Creolisation and Creoleness / Maeve McCusker -- Decolonisation / Stephen Tyre -- Exploration and Travel / Aedín Ní Loingsigh -- France in Asia and the Indian Ocean / Kate Marsh -- France in North America / Bill Marshall -- France in the South Pacific / Amanda Macdonald -- Francophone / Margaret A. Majumdar -- Francophone Black Atlantic / H. Adlai Murdoch -- Francophone Caribbean / Martin Munro -- Haiti / Mariana Past -- Historiography / Stephen Tyre -- Imperial Policy / Tony Chafer -- Internal Colonialism / Éamon Ó Ciosáin -- Massacres / Charles Forsdick -- Migrancy / Aedín Ní Loingsigh -- Narratives and Fictions of Empire / David Murphy -- Negritude / Patrick Corcoran -- Neo-colonialism / Andy Stafford -- North Africa and the Middle East / Patrick Crowley -- Orientalism and Exoticism / Siobhán Shilton -- Race and Ethnicity / Andy Stafford -- Religion / Kamal Salhi -- Slavery and Abolition / Maeve McCusker -- Sub-Saharan Africa / David Murphy -- Tirailleurs Sénégalais / Charles Forsdick -- Women's Histories / Winifred Woodhull -- Part IV. Germany and its Colonies -- Introduction / Birthe Kundrus -- African Playground / Nana Badenberg -- Anthropology and Ethnography / H. Glenn Penny -- Anti-colonial Struggles / Tanja Bührer -- Askari and Askari Myth / Michelle Moyd -- Berlin Conference / Tanja Bührer -- Black Germans / Eve Rosenhaft -- Cameroon / Ralph A. Austen -- Colonial Administration / Jürgen Zimmerer -- Colonial Culture-Impact on Germany / Alexander Honold.
Colonial Education / Sven Werkmeister -- Colonial Literature / Alexander Honold -- Colonial Migration and the Law / Pascal Grosse -- Colonial Monuments / Joachim Zeller -- Colonial Revisionism / Susann Lewerenz -- Colonialism and African Writing / Nina Berman -- Commercial Ethnographic Exhibitions / Hilke Thode-Arora -- German East Africa / Christian Geulen -- German New Guinea / Birthe Kundrus -- German Samoa / Birthe Kundrus -- German South-West Africa / Daniel J. Walther -- Herero Genocide / Jürgen Zimmerer -- Historiography / Sebastian Conrad -- Hybridity and Race Relations / Frank Becker -- Kiaochow / Klaus Mülhahn -- Language Question / Sven Werkmeister -- Missions / Ulrich van der Heyden -- NS-Colonialism / Dirk van Laak -- Orientalism / Nina Berman -- Race and Ethnicity / Michael Schubert -- Slavery, the Slave Trade and Abolition / J.-G. Deutsch and M. Zeuske -- Togo / Peter Sebald -- Versailles Conference / Boris Barth -- West Africa : 17th-18th Century / Ulrich van der Heyden -- Women's Histories / Lora Wildenthal -- Part V. Italy and its Colonies -- Introduction / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Adwa / Alessandro Triulzi -- Albania / Nicola Mai -- Anthropology and Ethnology / Barbara Sòrgoni -- Anti-colonial Resistance in Eastern Libya / Ali Abdullah Ahmida -- Anti-colonial Resistance in Italian East Africa / Ruth Iyob -- Dodecanese Islands / Nicholas Doumanis -- Eritrea to 1935 / Tekeste Negash -- Ethiopian War / Nicola Labanca -- Fictions and Narratives of Empire / Charles Burdett -- Antonio Gramsci and the Southern Question / Nelson Moe -- Haile Selassie / William R. Scott -- Historiography / Nicola Labanca -- Immigration / Jacqueline Andall -- Italian East Africa / Ruth Iyob -- Italophone Literature / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Land Expropriations / Federico Cresti -- Land Settlements / Federico Cresti -- Libya / Mia Fuller -- Orientalism / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Racial Policies / Barbara Sòrgoni -- Sanusi Order or Sanusiyya, 1837-1932 / Ali Abdullah Ahmida -- Somalia before 1935 / Tekeste Negash -- Women's Histories / Ruth Iyob -- Part VI. Netherlands and its Colonies -- Introduction / Luc Allofs [and others] -- Anthropology and Ethnography / Reinier Salverda and Patricia Krus -- Anti-colonial Resistance / Reinier Salverda and Annemie van Niekerk -- Edgar Cairo / Wim Rutgers -- Colonial Administration / Reinier Salverda and Patricia Krus -- Counts of Orange / Eric Martone -- Creolisation and Creoleness / Reinier Salverda, Patricia Krus, and Annemie van Niekerk -- Critique of Imperialism/Anti-colonialism / Reinier Salverda and Annemie van Niekerk -- December Killings / Patricia Krus -- Decolonisation / Reinier Salverda and Patricia Krus -- Dutch in the Caribbean / Wim Rutgers -- Dutch in Colonial America / Richard C. Kagan -- Dutch Colonisation of N. America / J.P. Alessi -- Dutch in Brazil / Mark Meuwese -- Dutch in Taiwan / Richard C. Kagan -- Albert Helman / Wim Rutgers -- Historiography / Reinier Salverda, P. Krus and Annemie van Niekerk -- Immigration in the Netherlands / Jeroen Doomernik -- Missionaries and Religion / Reinier Salverda and Wim Rutgers -- Narratives of Empire / Reinier Salverda, Wim Rutgers, and Annemie van Niekerk -- Nationalism/Nationhood / Reinier Salverda and Patricia Krus -- Orientalism/Exoticism / Reinier Salverda and Wim Rutgers -- Race and Ethnicity / Reinier Salverda and Patricia Krus -- Race and Language in South Africa / Annemie van Niekerk -- Slavery and Abolition / Reinier Salverda and P. Krus -- Women's Histories / Reinier Salverda, Patricia Krus, Annemie van Niekerk -- Part VII. Other Europes -- Clash of Civilisations / Couze Venn -- Jewish Diaspora / Ilan Pappe -- Postcolonial Russia / Ewa Thompson -- Postcolonial Sweden / Sheila Ghose -- Turkey / Hamit Bozarslan -- Part VIII. Portugal and Its Colonies.
Introduction / Phillip Rothwell -- Anthropology and Ethnography / Miguel Vale de Almeida -- Anti-colonial Struggles / David Robinson -- Brazilian Independence Process / Claire Williams -- Amílcar Cabral / Claire Williams -- Carnation Revolution / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez -- Charter Companies/Prazos / Corrado Tornimbeni -- Creolisation and Creoleness / David Brookshaw -- Explorations and Discoveries / Isabel Moutinho -- FRELIMO (Mozambique) / David Robinson -- FRETILIN and Xanana Gusmão / Anthony Soares -- Frontline States / David Robinson -- Goa / Claire Williams -- Henry the Navigator / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez -- Historiography / Phillip Rothwell -- Independence Movements (Azores and Madeira) / Carmen Maria Ramos Villar -- Liberation Wars and Decolonisation / Norrie MacQueen -- Lusophone African Literature / Russell Hamilton -- Lusotropicalism, Race and Ethnicity / Anna Klobucka -- Samora Machel / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Eduardo Mondlane / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Moorish Portugal / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez -- MPLA (Angola) / Hélia Santos -- Agostinho Neto / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Orientalism in the Lusophone World / Ana Maria Mão-de Ferro Martinho -- Overseas Provinces/The Colonial Act / Robert Moser -- PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde) / Claire Williams -- Pepetela / Igor Cusack -- Postcolonial African Immigration to Portugal / Sheila Khan -- RENAMO (Mozambique) / David Robinson -- Salazar and the New State / Victor J. Mendes -- Dom Sebastião / Phillip Rothwell -- Slavery and Abolition / David Brookshaw -- Timor and Indonesia : shared currents / Anthony Soares -- UNITA (Angola) / Hélia Santos -- Vasco da Gama / Claire Williams -- Women's Histories / Hilary Owen -- Part IX. Spain, Latin America and The Philippines -- Introduction / Elizabeth Monasterios -- Andean Avant-Garde / Elizabeth Monasterios -- Andean Textiles / Denise Arnold -- Anti-Colonial Struggle / Arturo Arias -- Arturo Borda / Elizabeth Monasterios -- 'Calibán' / John Beverley -- Christian Influences on Philippine Society / Dante L. Ambrosio -- Colonial Baroque / John Beverley -- Colonialism and Popular Culture / Denise Arnold -- Discovery and Conquest / Gonzalo Lamana -- Uriel Garcia / Elizabeth Monasterios -- Hibridación (Hybridity) / Joshua Lund -- Indigeneity / Gustavo Verdesio -- Indigenismo and Mestisaje / Javier Sanjinés -- Latin American Critical Thought / Michael Handelsman -- Marianisation in the Philippines / Evelyn A. Miranda -- Marronage and Rebellion / Juan Antonio Hernández -- Philippines-Mexico Connection / Jaime Veneracion -- Popol Wuj / Carlos Lopez -- Postcoloniality and Alternative Histories / Julia Suárez Krabbe -- Fausto Reinaga / Marcia Stephenson -- Role of Literature in Filipino Resistance / Maria Luisa T. Reyes -- Spain, Modernity, and Colonialism / John Beverley -- Spanish Colonialism in a World Perspective / Julia Suárez Krabbe -- Túpac Amaru Rebellion / John Beverley.
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Subject Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Poddar, Prem.
Patke, Rajeev S. (Rajeev Shridhar)
Jensen, Lars.
Other Form: Historical companion to postcolonial literatures. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 9780748623945 0748623949 (OCoLC)226280894
ISBN 9781849724531
1849724539
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0748630279 (electronic book)
0748623949 (Cloth)
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