ISBN:
1282792768
,
9781282792760
,
9789042028463
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (279 p.))
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race 1570-7253 no. 20
Series Statement:
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Ser
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Representation matters
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Identity politics
;
Representation (Philosophy) Electronic books
;
Representation (Philosophy)
;
Group identity
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Identity politics
;
Group identity
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Identity politics
;
Representation (Philosophy)
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Nichtwestliche Welt
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Repräsentation
Abstract:
In the twenty-first century, the terms "representation" and "identity" seem to have gone out of fashion. The essays collected here, however, seek to demonstrate the extent to which they continue to matter in the social, political and cultural strug.
Abstract:
Intro -- Representation Matters: (Re)Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World -- Contents -- Introduction: Representation Matters -- I. Concepts of Postcolonial Identity: Contingent Articulations -- Alterity and Identities: The Paradoxes of Authenticity -- Insularity and Identity at Odds in Martinique: 1973 to 2004 -- The West between Culture(s) and Collective Identity: Notes for a Present Problematic -- Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African National Identity -- Resistance or Compliance?: The Problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's Paintings -- II. Relational Histories -- Romani Identity Formation and the Globalization of Holocaust Discourse -- Similarity and Difference: The Appearance of Suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum -- III. Rethinking Origins and Indigeneity -- Resignifying Genesis, Identity, and Landscape: Routes versus Roots -- From Salsipuedes to Tabaré: Race, Space, and the Uruguayan Subject -- Bolivian Indigenous Identities: Reshaping the Terms of Political Debate, 1994-2004 -- IV. Reinventing Tradition -- Performative Constructions of Female Identity at a Hindu Ritual: Some Thoughts on the Agentive Dimension -- "We Are Like Fish That Were Reeled In": Peasant Understandings of Modernity in Zimbabwe -- Silence, Absence, Loss: Chineseness in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia -- Moving Identities: Mythology and Metaphor in André Brink's Praying Mantis -- The Contributors -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=587910
Permalink