Reframing Postcolonial Studies Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarl
This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-firs
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Edited by David D. Kim
Reframing Postcolonial Studies “This timely volume confronts the legacies of post-colonial thinking as a set of material and textual practices. Looking at museums, public monuments, statues, literary texts, languages and artworks, it questions the vexed legacies of colonial culture, as well as the theoretical and critical literature that has sought to understand it. From the vantage point of the ‘post’ post-colonial (as a temporal as well as theoretical construction), successive authors look at specific instances and mediations of Imperial Europe’s global ambition: the way poetry and fiction imagine potential pasts, the way video and film redress the harm of history, the way provenance and particularity complicate the politicisation of heritage. Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, the book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake.” —Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University of College London, UK “The attention of postcolonial studies has moved to decolonizing the colonial archive: to the institutions that house objects, artworks, materials, even bodies culled from the colonized world, to the corporations and universities that profited from slavery and colonialism, and to the statues in the public sphere that even today commemorate the racist history of colonial plunderers. Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. The book points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all.” —Robert J. C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA
David D. Kim Editor
Reframing Postcolonial Studies Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms
Editor David D. Kim Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
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