Concurrent imaginaries, postcolonial worlds: toward revised histories

Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds: Toward Revised Histories -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CONCURRENCES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- What Reading for Concurrences Offers Postcolonial Studies -- Concurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories -- Travel Writing and the Representation of Concurrent Worlds: Caryl Phillips' The Atlantic Sound and Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland -- SECTION TWO: IN AND OUT OF THE ARCHIVES -- "Unhallowed Mysteries" in the Colonial Archive: Competing Epistemologies in North America -- Concurrent Domesticities in Letters from the Colonial Fringe -- The 'Lapland Giantess' in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition -- Oral Tradition and the Postcolonial Challenge: The Historiographical Autonomy of Non-Literate Societies -- Entangled Encounters, Land-Taking, and the Oral Archive: Notes from the Field -- Constructing Otherness in Swedish District Courts: Concurrent Distance-Making Performances During Courtroom Interaction -- SECTION THREE: READING FOR CONCURRENCES -- An African Woman Coming to Voice Through a Multimodal Artwork -- Asymmetrical Voices: A Concurrent Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not and Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight -- "A Voice Speaking For Me a Riddle": Postcolonial Voice and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat -- From Colonial Oppression to Social Utopia: The Decolonization of Norrland and Its Limits in the Swedish Historical Novel The Great Wrath (Den stora vreden) -- Can the Subaltern Speak Under Duress? Voice, Agency, and Corporal Discipline in Zero Dark Thirty -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index