ISBN:
0719096529
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9780719096525
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 274 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Studies in imperialism
DDC:
325/.309045
Keywords:
Colonies Administration
;
History
;
Decolonization History
;
Decolonization in literature
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift 2012
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Konferenzschrift Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, Universitiy of London May 2012
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Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift 2012
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Entkolonialisierung
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Geschichte 1945-1970
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Kolonie
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Entkolonialisierung
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Geschichte 1945-1970
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Decolonising metropolitan cultures? -- 1. Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order: The tragic voice of Richard Wright / Bill Schwarz -- 2. Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and `New Commonwealth Internationalism' / Damian Skinner -- 3. Henry Swanzy, Sartre's zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement / Rob Waters -- 4. Anxiety abroad: Austerity, abundance and race in post-war visual culture / David C. Wall -- pt. II Performing decolonisation -- 5. The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal Dutt's Invincible Vietnam / Abin Chakraborty -- 6. Cultural heritage as performance: Re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953 -- 70) / Michael Falser -- 7.`I still don't have a country': The southern African settler diaspora after decolonisation / Jean Smith -- pt. III Decolonising expertise
Abstract:
Note continued: 8. Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana / Sophie Mew -- 9. More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana / Viviana D'Auria -- 10. Designing change: Coins and the creation of new national identities / Catherine Eagleton -- 11. What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonisation / Rachel Leow
Note:
Im Vorwort: This edited collection arose from the conference "Cultures of decolonisation" which took place in May 2012 at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, Universitiy of London
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