[PDF] Promoting Decolonization Through Literature eBook

Author : Meagan Brorman
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Decolonization in literature
ISBN :

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Western culture has been dominating global society for many years. Marginalized cultures have only recently reached or are reaching the point where they can regain their cultural identities within a Western society. The Pacific Island society is one of the newer cultures to this decolonization process. Most often, cultural identity is expressed through creative means such as music, art, and literature. These modes of expression should be studied to both understand decolonization and to help it to continue. This paper will look at three Pacific literature texts, analyzing content, language, and style to show how their authors promote the decolonization process in the Islands. Because decolonization must be put into context for greater understanding, the paper will begin by giving the historical background of the Islands, following the path that colonization took. It will then look at the language styles employed by the authors in order to illustrate how language use is related to the promotion of decolonization. Finally, the paper will look at the three texts themselves -- Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl's The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu, Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt, and Patricia Grace's Potiki -- analyzing the content and writing style employed by the authors and showing that no matter what period of colonization the text was written in, the authors still had the same goal in mind -- furthering the cause of decolonization.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0852555016

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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 : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1787388859

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Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds ‘decolonisation’ of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society’s foundations. Worst of all, today’s movement attacks its own cause: ‘decolonisers’ themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today’s ‘decolonisation’ truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò’s is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.

Author : Prasenjit Duara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134537085

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Brings together the most cutting edge thinking by major historians of decolonization to create a groundbreaking study of a subject central to recent global history.

Author : Ferial J Gbazoul
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789774160875

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This book is dedicated to Edward Said (1935-2003), a major literary and cultural critic, who has been instrumental in promoting decolonization through his analytical and critical writing. Scholarly articles tackle various aspects of Said's writing on fiction, criticism, politics, and music, and the volume includes an extensive bibliography of Edward Said. Edward Said and Critical Decolonization strives to cover the multifaceted career of Said, with emphasis on his critical contribution to decolonization and resistance to hegemony. There are moving testimonies by friends and relatives, students and colleagues, which throw light on his personality. An article by Said himself on the idea of the university is published here for the first time. The volume also includes articles exploring in depth Said's political, critical, and aesthetic positions--including his views on intellectuals and secular criticism, on traveling theory, and humanism. And Said's thought is explored in relation to other major thinkers such as Freud and Foucault. Contributors: Fadwa Abdel Rahman, Richard Armstrong, Mostafa Bayoumi, Terry Eagleton, Rokus de Groot, Stathis Gourgouris, Hoda Guindi, Ananya Kabir, Lamis El Nakkash, Daisuke Nishihara, Rubén Chuaqui, Yasmine Ramadan, Andrew Rubin, Edward Said, Najla Said, Yumna Siddiqi, David Sweet, Michael Wood, and Youssef Yacoubi.

Author : Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848139527

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'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.

Author : Jan C. Jansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0691192766

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The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history. Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike. Concise and authoritative, Decolonization is the essential introduction to this momentous chapter in history, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today. --

Author : Bhakti Shringarpure
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0429515820

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This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Not only did the superpowers rely upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, but the postcolony itself was shaped, epistemologically and materially, by Cold War discourses, policies, narratives, and paradigms. Ruptures and appropriated trajectories in the postcolonial world can be attributed to the ways in which the Cold War became the afterlife of European colonialism. Through a speculative assemblage, this book connects the dots, deftly taking the reader from Frantz Fanon to Aaron Swartz, and from assassinations in the Third World to American multiculturalism. Whether the Cold War subverted the dream of decolonization or created a compromised cultural sphere, this book makes those rich palimpsests visible.

Author : Philip Darby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826420591

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The Fiction of Imperialism attempts to promote dialogue between international relations and postcolonialism. It addresses the value of fiction to an inderstanding of the imperial relationship between the West and Asia and Africa. A wide range of fiction and crisicism is examined as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and contemporary Third World politics. The book begins by contrasting the treatment of cross-cultural relations in political studies and literary texts. It then examines the personal as a metaphor for the political in fiction depicting the imperial connection between Britain and India. This is paired with an analysis of African literary texts, which takes as its theme the relationship between culture and politics. The concluding chapters approach literature from the outside, considering its apparent silence on economics and realpolitik and assessing the utility of postcolonial reconceptualisations

Author : Dane Keith Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199340498

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Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This work demonstrates that this process involved considerable violence and instability.