Culture Despite Colonialism

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791493164
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism and Cultural Identity written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the diverse responses of colonized people to metropolitan ideas and to indigenous traditions. Going beyond the standard isolation of mimeticism and hybridity—and criticizing Homi Bhabha's influential treatment of the former—Hogan offers a lucid, usable theoretical structure for analysis of the postcolonial phenomena, with ramifications extending beyond postcolonial literature. Developing this structure in relation to major texts by Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Buchi Emecheta, Rabindranath Tagore, and Attia Hosain, Hogan also provides crucial cultural background for understanding these and other works from the same traditions.

Author : Paul F. Nursey-Bray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-colonialism written by Paul F. Nursey-Bray and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780745608716
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism's Culture written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nicholas Thomas explores the perceptions of colonized populations which have emerged in the course of European expansion, and critically assesses different approaches to colonial representation. Thomas argues that, while negative ideologies of racial denigration have been important, there is also a range of romanticizing, sentimental and exoticist images of others that require fuller appreciation. These images continue to play a significant role today, both in contemporary liberal attitudes towards other cultures and in scholarly disciplines like anthropology. The book aims to offer an account of the development of ideas about human difference and otherness, and of the conflict-ridden expression of these ideas in colonial projects at particular times.

Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520206053
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tensions of Empire written by Frederick Cooper and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-02-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rulers' strategies for dealing with the conquerors—the book brings out features of European expansion and contraction we have not seen well before."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "What is important about this book is its commitment to shaping theory through the careful interpretation of grounded, empirically-based historical and ethnographic studies. . . . By far the best collection I have seen on the subject."—Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829650
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Imperialism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Author : T. O. Beidelman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300215X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Colonialism written by T. O. Beidelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be an African subject living in remote areas of Tanganyika at the end of the colonial era? For the Kaguru of Tanganyika, it meant daily confrontation with the black and white governmental officials tasked with bringing this rural people into the mainstream of colonial African life. T. O. Beidelman's detailed narrative links this administrative world to the Kaguru's wider social, cultural, and geographical milieu, and to the political history, ideas of indirect rule, and the white institutions that loomed just beyond their world. Beidelman unveils the colonial system's problems as it extended its authority into rural areas and shows how these problems persisted even after African independence.

Author : John Ryan Fischer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962513X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cattle Colonialism written by John Ryan Fischer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological resources presented. But the imposition of new property laws limited these indigenous responses, and Pacific cattle frontiers ultimately became the driving force behind Euro-American political and commercial domination, under which native residents lost land and sovereignty and faced demographic collapse. Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African-American Mosaic written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0852555016
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonising the Mind written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1986 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.

Author : Kent A. Ono
Publisher : Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780820479408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past written by Kent A. Ono and published by Critical Intercultural Communication Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. The book asks, «What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?» Offering five case studies on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the sale of the Seattle Mariners, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Pocahontas, and Star Trek: The Next Generation--and providing current media examples in the introduction and conclusion, the book documents the persistence of colonialism in media culture. White vigilantism, prototypical colonial rescue plots, and cloaked and not-so-hidden anxieties about racial and national miscegenation all contribute towards a continuation of colonialism and a neocolonial mind-set. The book's critical examination from a historical and cultural perspective makes it possible to alter colonialism for future generations.