Postcolonial Studies

The Postcolonial Studies series explores the enormous variety and richness in postcolonial culture and transnational literatures. The series aims to publish work which explores various facets of the legacy of colonialism including: imperialism, nationalism, representation and resistance, neocolonialism, diaspora, displacement and migratory identities, cultural hybridity, transculturation, exile, and geographical and metaphorical borderlands. This series does not define its attentions to any single place, region, or disciplinary approach, and we are interested in books informed by a variety of theoretical perspectives. While seeking the highest standards of scholarship, the Postcolonial Studies series is thus a broad forum for the interrogation of textual, cultural and political postcolonialisms. The series welcomes both individually authored and collaboratively authored books and monographs as well as edited collections of essays.

20 publications

Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe

ISSN: 2192-3469

Die Publikationsreihe Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe publiziert Studien aus der Slavistik, Baltistik und Balkanistik. Die Forschungsschwerpunkte der Herausgeber der Reihe liegen unter anderem auf der polnischen, russischen, serbischen und kroatischen Gegenwartsliteratur und Kultur, interkulturellen Beziehungen und politischer Philosophie. Die Bände erscheinen in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

8 publications

Afrika und Europa. Koloniale und Postkoloniale Begegnungen / Africa and Europe. Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters

Die Reihe Afrika und Europa. Koloniale und Postkoloniale Begegnungen ist eine Reihe aus den Bereichen Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften. Sie wird herausgegeben von Professorin Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, deren Forschungsschwerpunkte im Bereich der deutsch-afrikanischen Begegnungsgeschichte und der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte liegen. Die Bände der Reihe umfassen neben der Geschichtswissenschaft auch Aspekte der Politik-, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften. Die Reihe sieht sich insbesondere postkolonialen Ansätzen verpflichtet. Die Reihe Afrika und Europa. Koloniale und Postkoloniale Begegnungen ist eine Reihe aus den Bereichen Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften. Sie wird herausgegeben von Professorin Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, deren Forschungsschwerpunkte im Bereich der deutsch-afrikanischen Begegnungsgeschichte und der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte liegen. Die Bände der Reihe umfassen neben der Geschichtswissenschaft auch Aspekte der Politik-, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften. Die Reihe sieht sich insbesondere postkolonialen Ansätzen verpflichtet. Die Reihe Afrika und Europa. Koloniale und Postkoloniale Begegnungen ist eine Reihe aus den Bereichen Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften. Sie wird herausgegeben von Professorin Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, deren Forschungsschwerpunkte im Bereich der deutsch-afrikanischen Begegnungsgeschichte und der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte liegen. Die Bände der Reihe umfassen neben der Geschichtswissenschaft auch Aspekte der Politik-, Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften. Die Reihe sieht sich insbesondere postkolonialen Ansätzen verpflichtet.

10 publications

The Modernist Revolution in World Literature

ISSN: 1528-9672

In the stormy time period approximately between the Paris Commune in 1871 and the revolutionary events in May 1968, or between the conclusion of the American Civil War and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the rise and fall of international modernism was crucial to all historical, political, and intellectual de-velopments around the world. By the time the United States had emerged from its military involvement in Indo-China, the modernist movement had given way to postmodernism. This series investigates the development of international modern-ism in the half century leading up to World War I and its disintegration in the fol-lowing fifty years. High modernism claimed that it represented a break with corrupt values of previous cultural traditions, but we now think that this very drive to “make it new” is itself derivative. What are the roots and characteristics of modernism? How did the philosophical and pedagogical system supporting modernism develop? Is mod-ernism, perhaps, not a liberating movement but a device to shield high culture from rising democratic vulgarization? What is the role of modernism in postcolonial struggles? Where does feminism fall in the modernist agenda? How do changing systems of patronage and the economy of art influence modernism as an enor-mously expanded reading public becomes augmented by cinema, radio, and televi-sion? Such questions on a worldwide stage, in the century approximately from 1870 to 1970, in all manifestations of literature, art, politics, and culture, represent the scope of this series In the stormy time period approximately between the Paris Commune in 1871 and the revolutionary events in May 1968, or between the conclusion of the American Civil War and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the rise and fall of international modernism was crucial to all historical, political, and intellectual de-velopments around the world. By the time the United States had emerged from its military involvement in Indo-China, the modernist movement had given way to postmodernism. This series investigates the development of international modern-ism in the half century leading up to World War I and its disintegration in the fol-lowing fifty years. High modernism claimed that it represented a break with corrupt values of previous cultural traditions, but we now think that this very drive to “make it new” is itself derivative. What are the roots and characteristics of modernism? How did the philosophical and pedagogical system supporting modernism develop? Is mod-ernism, perhaps, not a liberating movement but a device to shield high culture from rising democratic vulgarization? What is the role of modernism in postcolonial struggles? Where does feminism fall in the modernist agenda? How do changing systems of patronage and the economy of art influence modernism as an enor-mously expanded reading public becomes augmented by cinema, radio, and televi-sion? Such questions on a worldwide stage, in the century approximately from 1870 to 1970, in all manifestations of literature, art, politics, and culture, represent the scope of this series In the stormy time period approximately between the Paris Commune in 1871 and the revolutionary events in May 1968, or between the conclusion of the American Civil War and the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the rise and fall of international modernism was crucial to all historical, political, and intellectual de-velopments around the world. By the time the United States had emerged from its military involvement in Indo-China, the modernist movement had given way to postmodernism. This series investigates the development of international modern-ism in the half century leading up to World War I and its disintegration in the fol-lowing fifty years. High modernism claimed that it represented a break with corrupt values of previous cultural traditions, but we now think that this very drive to “make it new” is itself derivative. What are the roots and characteristics of modernism? How did the philosophical and pedagogical system supporting modernism develop? Is mod-ernism, perhaps, not a liberating movement but a device to shield high culture from rising democratic vulgarization? What is the role of modernism in postcolonial struggles? Where does feminism fall in the modernist agenda? How do changing systems of patronage and the economy of art influence modernism as an enor-mously expanded reading public becomes augmented by cinema, radio, and televi-sion? Such questions on a worldwide stage, in the century approximately from 1870 to 1970, in all manifestations of literature, art, politics, and culture, represent the scope of this series

3 publications