New Developments in Postcolonial Studies
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Edited By Malgorzata Martynuska and Elzbieta Rokosz-Piejko
This book analyses the applicability of postcolonial theories and contemporary issues, and also revisits previously tackled cultural, social and literary phenomena. The contributions examine contemporary social, economic and cultural processes. The authors look back at older cultural texts, coming from either former colonies or former colonisers. They furthermore refer to the fact that theories of postcolonialism are currently more frequently applied to study countries originally not classified as colonial. They attempt to define and explain the experiences of the native peoples of colonial territories in various historical situations of dependence.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2017. 234 pp., 3 graph.
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- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Postcolonial Literature(s)
- Sharing Space with Others: Re-Thinking the Multicultural Encounter (Anna Branach-Kallas)
- Education as a Tool for Creating Hybrid Anglo-Welsh Identity in 19th- and 20th-century Welsh Novels (Aldona Bakiera)
- Postcolonial Ireland in McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy (Oksana Weretiuk)
- The Image of the Other in The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury – A Supplement to Postcolonial Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Travel Works (Barbara Ludwiczak)
- Buddhist Ecocriticism in Selected Works of Aldous Huxley’s and Chris Arthur’s Essays (Małgorzata Warchał)
- Towards a Postcolonial Ecocriticism: A Reading of Mamang Dai’s Legends of Pensam (Anjali Daimari)
- Liminality as Seen Through the Gardens of Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days (Patrycja Austin)
- When Hybrids Collide – Co-Hybridisation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (Izabela Bierowiec)
- Cracked Within: Reading the Sri Lankan Civil War in Jean Arasanayagam’s The Dividing Line (Dolikajyoti Sharma)
- Orality, Textuality and Literary Legacy in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen (Rachael Sumner)
- Part II: Postcolonial States, Hybrid Identites, Disregarded Territories
- Stimuli and Challenges of “Mozambican Identity” in Africa. A Brief Analysis of the Processes of the Construction of National and Cultural Identity in Mozambique: A Postcolonial Approach (Fabrício Dias da Rocha)
- Cooking up Cubanidad: Cultural Hybridity in the Case of Cuban American Cuisine (Małgorzata Martynuska)
- The Long Road to the South Pole: Post-colonial Antarctica (Johanna Grabow)
- Part III: Postcolonial (?) Poland
- Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Contemporary (Mis)Use of Postcolonial Theory in Poland and an Alternative (Gregory Allen)
- Neocolonialism in Polish Consumer Society (Mira Malczyńska-Biały)
- Russian Invaders and Their Polish Subjects from the Perspective of Władysław Lech Terlecki (Anna Jamrozek-Sowa)
- Part IV: Postcolonial Literature in Translation
- Colonisation of Mind in Translation as Illustrated Through the Polish Rendition of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Łukasz Barciński)
- Postcolonial Literature in Translation: Polish Translations of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz)
- List of Contributors
- Series Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Postcolonial Literature(s)
- Sharing Space with Others: Re-Thinking the Multicultural Encounter (Anna Branach-Kallas)
- Education as a Tool for Creating Hybrid Anglo-Welsh Identity in 19th- and 20th-century Welsh Novels (Aldona Bakiera)
- Postcolonial Ireland in McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy (Oksana Weretiuk)
- The Image of the Other in The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury – A Supplement to Postcolonial Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Travel Works (Barbara Ludwiczak)
- Buddhist Ecocriticism in Selected Works of Aldous Huxley’s and Chris Arthur’s Essays (Małgorzata Warchał)
- Towards a Postcolonial Ecocriticism: A Reading of Mamang Dai’s Legends of Pensam (Anjali Daimari)
- Liminality as Seen Through the Gardens of Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days (Patrycja Austin)
- When Hybrids Collide – Co-Hybridisation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (Izabela Bierowiec)
- Cracked Within: Reading the Sri Lankan Civil War in Jean Arasanayagam’s The Dividing Line (Dolikajyoti Sharma)
- Orality, Textuality and Literary Legacy in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen (Rachael Sumner)
- Part II: Postcolonial States, Hybrid Identites, Disregarded Territories
- Stimuli and Challenges of “Mozambican Identity” in Africa. A Brief Analysis of the Processes of the Construction of National and Cultural Identity in Mozambique: A Postcolonial Approach (Fabrício Dias da Rocha)
- Cooking up Cubanidad: Cultural Hybridity in the Case of Cuban American Cuisine (Małgorzata Martynuska)
- The Long Road to the South Pole: Post-colonial Antarctica (Johanna Grabow)
- Part III: Postcolonial (?) Poland
- Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Contemporary (Mis)Use of Postcolonial Theory in Poland and an Alternative (Gregory Allen)
- Neocolonialism in Polish Consumer Society (Mira Malczyńska-Biały)
- Russian Invaders and Their Polish Subjects from the Perspective of Władysław Lech Terlecki (Anna Jamrozek-Sowa)
- Part IV: Postcolonial Literature in Translation
- Colonisation of Mind in Translation as Illustrated Through the Polish Rendition of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Łukasz Barciński)
- Postcolonial Literature in Translation: Polish Translations of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz)
- List of Contributors
- Series Index
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Anna Branach-Kallas
Sharing Space with Others: Re-Thinking the Multicultural Encounter
Abstract: The article is an attempt to discuss selected theoretical propositions in English and French responding to the dilemma of how to share postcolonial space with the Other. The author adopts postcolonial trauma theory to analyse Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio’s Révolutions, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood.
Key words: trauma studies, postcolonial studies, Otherness, multiculturalism.
The title of my paper refers to the fundamental existential dilemma connected with the postcolonial encounter in the multiracial and multicultural context, encapsulated by Mary Pratt’s concept of the contact zone as
the space of imperial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations… . A ‘contact’ perspective emphasizes how subjects get constituted in and by their relations to each other. It treats the relations among colonizers and colonized, or travellers and ‘travelees’, not in terms of separateness, but in terms of co-presence, interaction, interlocking understandings and practices, and often within radically asymmetrical relations of power. (Pratt 2008, 8)
One might say that postcolonial scholars since the publication of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952) in its English translation (1967) and Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) have been preoccupied with the contact zone and have placed it in various historical and philosophical configurations. However, in the introduction to Postcolonial...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Postcolonial Literature(s)
- Sharing Space with Others: Re-Thinking the Multicultural Encounter (Anna Branach-Kallas)
- Education as a Tool for Creating Hybrid Anglo-Welsh Identity in 19th- and 20th-century Welsh Novels (Aldona Bakiera)
- Postcolonial Ireland in McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy (Oksana Weretiuk)
- The Image of the Other in The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury – A Supplement to Postcolonial Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Travel Works (Barbara Ludwiczak)
- Buddhist Ecocriticism in Selected Works of Aldous Huxley’s and Chris Arthur’s Essays (Małgorzata Warchał)
- Towards a Postcolonial Ecocriticism: A Reading of Mamang Dai’s Legends of Pensam (Anjali Daimari)
- Liminality as Seen Through the Gardens of Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days (Patrycja Austin)
- When Hybrids Collide – Co-Hybridisation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (Izabela Bierowiec)
- Cracked Within: Reading the Sri Lankan Civil War in Jean Arasanayagam’s The Dividing Line (Dolikajyoti Sharma)
- Orality, Textuality and Literary Legacy in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen (Rachael Sumner)
- Part II: Postcolonial States, Hybrid Identites, Disregarded Territories
- Stimuli and Challenges of “Mozambican Identity” in Africa. A Brief Analysis of the Processes of the Construction of National and Cultural Identity in Mozambique: A Postcolonial Approach (Fabrício Dias da Rocha)
- Cooking up Cubanidad: Cultural Hybridity in the Case of Cuban American Cuisine (Małgorzata Martynuska)
- The Long Road to the South Pole: Post-colonial Antarctica (Johanna Grabow)
- Part III: Postcolonial (?) Poland
- Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Contemporary (Mis)Use of Postcolonial Theory in Poland and an Alternative (Gregory Allen)
- Neocolonialism in Polish Consumer Society (Mira Malczyńska-Biały)
- Russian Invaders and Their Polish Subjects from the Perspective of Władysław Lech Terlecki (Anna Jamrozek-Sowa)
- Part IV: Postcolonial Literature in Translation
- Colonisation of Mind in Translation as Illustrated Through the Polish Rendition of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Łukasz Barciński)
- Postcolonial Literature in Translation: Polish Translations of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz)
- List of Contributors
- Series Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Postcolonial Literature(s)
- Sharing Space with Others: Re-Thinking the Multicultural Encounter (Anna Branach-Kallas)
- Education as a Tool for Creating Hybrid Anglo-Welsh Identity in 19th- and 20th-century Welsh Novels (Aldona Bakiera)
- Postcolonial Ireland in McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy (Oksana Weretiuk)
- The Image of the Other in The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury – A Supplement to Postcolonial Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Travel Works (Barbara Ludwiczak)
- Buddhist Ecocriticism in Selected Works of Aldous Huxley’s and Chris Arthur’s Essays (Małgorzata Warchał)
- Towards a Postcolonial Ecocriticism: A Reading of Mamang Dai’s Legends of Pensam (Anjali Daimari)
- Liminality as Seen Through the Gardens of Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days (Patrycja Austin)
- When Hybrids Collide – Co-Hybridisation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (Izabela Bierowiec)
- Cracked Within: Reading the Sri Lankan Civil War in Jean Arasanayagam’s The Dividing Line (Dolikajyoti Sharma)
- Orality, Textuality and Literary Legacy in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen (Rachael Sumner)
- Part II: Postcolonial States, Hybrid Identites, Disregarded Territories
- Stimuli and Challenges of “Mozambican Identity” in Africa. A Brief Analysis of the Processes of the Construction of National and Cultural Identity in Mozambique: A Postcolonial Approach (Fabrício Dias da Rocha)
- Cooking up Cubanidad: Cultural Hybridity in the Case of Cuban American Cuisine (Małgorzata Martynuska)
- The Long Road to the South Pole: Post-colonial Antarctica (Johanna Grabow)
- Part III: Postcolonial (?) Poland
- Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Contemporary (Mis)Use of Postcolonial Theory in Poland and an Alternative (Gregory Allen)
- Neocolonialism in Polish Consumer Society (Mira Malczyńska-Biały)
- Russian Invaders and Their Polish Subjects from the Perspective of Władysław Lech Terlecki (Anna Jamrozek-Sowa)
- Part IV: Postcolonial Literature in Translation
- Colonisation of Mind in Translation as Illustrated Through the Polish Rendition of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Łukasz Barciński)
- Postcolonial Literature in Translation: Polish Translations of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz)
- List of Contributors
- Series Index