Contested communities : communication, narration, imagination /

Contested communities : communication, narration, imagination / / edited by Susanne Mühleisen.

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This interdisciplinary volume investigates com-munity in postcolonial language situations, texts, and media. In actual and imagined communities, membership assumes shared features – values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, professional interests and prac...

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Superior document:ASNEL Papers ; Volume 21
TeilnehmendeR:
Muehleisen, Susanne,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; Volume 190.
SNEL papers ; Volume 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (319 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Susanne Mühleisen
  • Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion / Susanne Mühleisen
  • Community and the Common / Robert JC Young
  • The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective / Stephanie Hackert
  • Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century / Daria Dayter
  • Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities / Susanne Mühleisen and Anne Schröder
  • Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community / Andrea Moll
  • ’Africa is not a Game’: Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online / Eric Anchimbe
  • The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? / Dagmar Deuber
  • Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India / Tobias Döring
  • Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant / Katja Sarkowsky
  • Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the ‘New’ South Africa / Jochen Petzold
  • Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence / Stephan Laqué
  • A ‘furry subjunctive case’ of Empathy: Human–Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism / Roman Bartosch
  • Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville’s Short Story “Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water” / Susan Arndt
  • Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón / Britta Schneider
  • Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda / Jude Ssempuuma
  • Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation / Carolyn Cooper
  • At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture “Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation” / Caroline Koegler
  • Notes on Contributors / Susanne Mühleisen
  • Index / Susanne Mühleisen.

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