Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Hoffmann, Anette, Peeren, Esther
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2010.
Series:Thamyris intersecting ; no. 20.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : representation matters / Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren
  • 1. Concepts of postcolonial identity : contingent articulations. Alterity and identities: the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? The problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / Gülru Çakmak
  • 2. Relational histories. Romani identity formation and the globalization of Holocaust discourse / Huub van Baar ; Similarity and difference : the appearance of suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly
  • 3. Rethinking origins and indigeneity. Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabaré : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas
  • 4. Reinventing tradition. Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.