Postcolonial studies across the disciplines : : ASNEL Papers 18 / / edited by Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier ; cover image, Ulrike Schmieder.

Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history,...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2013.
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 170
Cross/Cultures 170/18.
Physical Description:1 online resource (414 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Postcolonial Studies and Atlantic Studies: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Slavery and Empire / Tim Watson
  • Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue / Jessica Hemmings
  • Masking the White Gaze: Towards a Postcolonial Art History of Masks / Melanie Ulz
  • From Bush Talk to Nation Language: Language Attitudes in Jamaica Before and After Independence / Andrea Sand
  • Track Studies: Popular Music and Postcolonial Analysis / Johannes Ismaiel–Wendt
  • Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Writing a Zulu Woman Back Into History / Ellen Grünkemeier
  • Postcolonial Pursuits in African American Studies: The Later Poems of Claude McKay / Timo Müller
  • “Mainly Story-Telling and Play-Acting”: Theatricality and the Middle Passage in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger / Carl Plasa
  • Negotiating Family Models in Jamaican Literature: Class, Race, and Religion / Henning Marquardt
  • Transatlantic Representations of the Revolution in Saint-Domingue at the End of the Eighteenth Century and the Haitian Turn / Anja Bandau
  • Writing Off-Centre: Global Imagination and Modernism in the Short Fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey / Sarah Fekadu
  • Emancipation and Protest: Moravian Mission and the Labour Strike in St Kitts / Jan Hüsgen
  • The Perspectives of African Elites on Slavery and Abolition on the Gold Coast (1860–1900): Newspapers as Sources / Steffen Runkel
  • Fragile Modernities: History and Historiography in Contemporary African Fiction / Frank Schulze–Engler
  • Historiographic Indian English Fiction: Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Rule in Midnight’s Children, The Great Indian Novel, and A Fine Balance / Matthias Galler
  • Kaliyattam (The Play of God) by Jayaraj: Polymorphous and Postcolonial Poetics in an Indian Othello-Adaptation / Cecile Sandten
  • Othering Otherness: Stephen Muecke’s Fictocriticism and the Cosmopolitan Vision / Dennis Mischke
  • The (Inter)Disciplinarity of Postcolonial Research / Ursula Kluwick
  • Lessons for A-Disciplinarity: Some Notes on What Happens to an Americanist When She Takes Slavery Seriously / Sabine Broeck
  • Postcolonial Studies as a Discipline: An External Perspective on Administrative Headaches / Janou Glencross
  • On the Challenge of De-Provincializing the University Classroom: Teaching African History from a Postcolonial Perspective / Brigitte Reinwald
  • Studying Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in a World of Globalized Modernity: Notes on the ‘Frankfurt Experience’ / Frank Schulze–Engler
  • Postcolonial Readings in German Secondary Education / Elinor Jane Pohl
  • Cross-Cultural Pedagogical Practices: Understanding the German Context / Mala Pandurang
  • Teaching India in the German EFL Classroom: Issues and Problems / Reinhold Wandel
  • Notes on Contributors.