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This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural formations, and, with its heterogeneous author- and readership, enlists active participation by the individual

This anthology demonstrates the significance of Raja Rao's writing in the broader spectrum of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic writing in the 20th century. In addition to highlighting Rao's significant presence in Indian writing, the volume presents a range of previously unpublished material which contextualises Rao's work within 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial trends. Exploring both his fictional and non-fictional works, Reading India in a Transnational Era engages with issues of subaltern agency and national belonging, authenticity, subjectivity, internationalism, multicultural politics, postcolonialism, and literary and cultural representation through language and translation. A literary volume that discusses gender and identity on both socio-political grounds, apart from dealing with Rao's linguistic experimentations in a transnational era, will be of interest among scholars and researchers of English, postcolonial and world literature, cultural theory, and Asian studies.

Preliminary material /Editors Indiscretions -- Introduction: Indiscretions At the Sex/Culture Divide /Murat Aydemir -- Subaltern Looks and the Imperial Gaze: Charles Warren Stoddard's South Sea Idyls /Jeffrey Geiger -- The Orient of Critique: Ambivalence about the East in Wilde and Gide /Merrill Cole -- Quempire: A Loiterly Journey into Heart of Darkness /Jonathan Mitchell and Michael O'Rourke -- Pleasures of the Orient: Cadinot's Maghreb as Gay Male Pornotopia /Jaap Kooijman -- The Double Nature of the Love Triangle: Sedgwick, Greene, Achebe /Beth Kramer -- Of Passing and Other Cures: Arjan Ederveen's Born in the Wrong Body and the Cultural Construction of Essentialism /Maaike Bleeker -- The Refusal of Migrant Subjectivity: Queer Times and Spaces in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia /Rebecca Fine Romanow -- Blood Brothers /Murat Aydemir -- Lesbian Representation and Postcolonial Allegory /Anikó Imre -- "Just to See": Fanon, National Consciousness, and the Indiscreet Look in Post-Third Cinema /Lindsey Green-Simms -- What can Queer Theory Learn from Feminism in India?: Reversing Epistemological Frames /Nishant Shahani -- Weaving a Different Kind of Tartan: Musicality, Spectrality, and Kinship in Jackie Kay's Trumpet /Ryan D. Fong -- Contributors /Editors Indiscretions -- Index /Editors Indiscretions.

Ideology in postcolonial texts and contexts : an introduction / Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Steinpart -- Ideologiekritik : a critique / Michael Freeden -- "A crude, empty, fragile shell?" : postcolonial consciousness in an era of global capitalism / Laura Chrisman -- The market as a dimension of practice : commodification, ideology, and postcolonial studies / Caroline Koeglerpart -- Haggling and postcolonial phonological constructs in Nigeria / Taiwo Soneye -- Standard language ideology revisited : the case of newscasters in St. Vincent and the Grenadines / Eva Canan Hänsel -- Imagining pasts, writing lives : familial narratives, memory, and the "ideological I" in Imbi Paju's / Andreas Athanasiades -- Promoting the exotic? : the ideological mechanisms of literary prizes / Simon Rosenbergpart -- Reflections of Lusáni Cissé : imperial images and sentient critique / Lars Eckstein -- The ambivalence of the veil in contemporary British culture / Ana Sobral -- Crime and the censor : the production and reception of crime fiction in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa / Elizabeth le Roux -- National allegories in the age of globalization : prologue to an analysis of contemporary Canadian young adult fiction / Mavis Reimer -- Bone to bone, spirit to spirit : sovereign matriarchy, Asian/Indigenous relations, and the work of directed re-membering / Larissa Lai.

There is broad agreement that the current use of literature in the Norwegian EFL classroom is not realizing its full educational potential due to a lack of practical approaches and an over ambitious curriculum. Thus, literature has become a rare and limited occurrence where students are asked to read for content and linguistical features, rather than for personal enjoyment and growth. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the potential of postcolonial literature in facilitating the development of intercultural competence in Norwegian upper-secondary EFL students as a step towards achieving the new interdisciplinary goals of promoting democracy and citizenship. Through providing postcolonial readings of Nadine Gordimer's short story "Loot" and Naomi Shihab Nye's young adult novel Habibi and an analysis of the texts in relation to the theories of intercultural competence provided by Barrett et al. and Michael Byram, this thesis seeks to discuss the potential of postcolonial literature as a genre in the development of intercultural competence through personal growth. The thesis found that postcolonial literature lends itself particularly well to the purpose of developing intercultural competence and that the variety within the genre presents a plethora of opportunities for facilitating this development. Specifically, the thesis found that Nye's Habibi could facilitate intercultural competence through its potential for student identification and imitation of the novel's main protagonist, and Gordimer's "Loot" was found to facilitate through challenging the readers preconceptions and focusing on the role of extreme conditions on human behaviour.

This study analyses a selected cohort of black South African novelists" depiction of the real burning issues of the post-Apartheid South Africa. The ideas that the study is concerned with in the novel under study, are based on the aspect of theme and how it is utilised by the respective authors to address the social, economic and political issues in the post-Apartheid South Africa. The study is an investigation of the extent to which black South African novelists have depicted the aforementioned issues. The research highlights those issues that the novels under study addressed and continues by revealing how the authors depict these issues in their texts. Moreover, the study concludes that literature has a role to play in the society and recommends that it should be reliable and useful to the society. It further recommends that literature should not ignore societal issues and should be corrective in its approach. The study is comprised of six chapters: Chapter One functions as an introduction to the study. It provides information on the aims and objectives of the study, the background information on the novels under study and South African literature itself. The chapter also outlines the method and the theories, which will be used in the study. It concludes by addressing the significance of the study. Chapter Two provides a detailed analysis of the theories, which will be used in the study. This includes the Marxism and Realism theory, Afrocentric theory and the Feminist Literary theory. It also defines the concept of theme and outlines its characteristics. It discusses post-colonial literature and its development in Africa. The chapter will conclude with a disclosure of the role of theme and of the author in the African novel. Chapter Three addresses the depiction of burning issues in Mpe"s novel "Welcome to Our Hillbrow". It discusses the real post-colonial challenges confronting the society during the post-Apartheid South Africa. It determines whether the novel under study adequately addresses these issues. ...

Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting texts that pioneered this approachby Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie, and Sarah Brouilletteas well as emerging scholarship that follows the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired work examines the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of the field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital, consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial texts. Topics include explorations of the institutions of the field such as the B.B.C.s Caribbean voices program and the South African publishing industry; analysis of Bourdieus fieldwork in Algeria during the decolonization era; and comparisons between Bourdieus work and alternative versions of literary sociology such as Pascale Casanovas and Franco Morettis. The sociological approach to literature developed in the collected essays shows how, even if the commodification of postcolonialism threatens to neutralize the fields potential for resistance and opposition, a renewed project of postcolonial critique can be built in the contaminated spaces of globalization

Introduction: The postcolonial digital cultural record -- The stakes of postcolonial digital humanities -- Colonial violence and the postcolonial digital archive -- Remaking the global worlds of digital humanities -- Postcolonial digital pedagogy -- Rethinking the human in digital humanities -- Conclusion: A call to action

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