Europe in black and white : immigration, race and identity in the 'Old Continent' / edited by Manuela Ribeiro Sanches ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanches, Manuela Ribeiro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--Europe.

Cultural pluralism.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Postcolonialism--Europe.

Postcolonialism.

Europe--Race relations.

Europe.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Europe--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Europe in Black and White offers new critical perspectives on race, immigration, and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, such as multiculturalism and hybridity, the contributors address a number of issues, including geography, politics and linguistic practice. Featuring scholars from a wide variety of nationalities and disciplinary areas, this collection of essays will speak to an equally wide readership and provide an important counter-discourse to the images of migration and racism frequently portrayed in the media.

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Europe in Black and White; Part I: The Problem with Europe; Chapter 1: T he Culture Wars in Translation; Chapter 2: Nations Re-bound: Race and Biopolitics at EU and US Borders; Chapter 3: New Maps of Europe by Some Contemporary 'Migrant' Artists and Writers; Chapter 4: "Beware Behalfies!" Contradictory Affiliations in Salman Rushdie's Step Across This Line; Chapter 5: A Cape Verdian View of Europe: History and Geography Revised in the Writings of G. T. Didial; Chapter 6: On the Periphery of the Universal and the Splendour of Eurocentrism

Chapter 7: Opportunities, Politics and Subjectivity in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon's Non-governmental Organizations Part II: Building Walls: Race and Difference; Chapter 8: Technologies of Othering: Black Masculinities in the Carceral Zones of European Whiteness; Chapter 9: Reverses of Modernity: Postcolonialism and Post-Holocaust; Chapter 10: White Resentment - The Other Side of Belonging; Chapter 11: 'Mestizaje', 'Mestiçagem', 'Métissage': Useful Concepts?; Chapter 12: Studies in Brown: Seductions and Betrayals of Hybridity in Richard Burton and Gilberto Freyre

Part III: Language as Contact Zone or the Disavowal of Empire Chapter 13: Old Empires, New Cartographies: Problematizing 'Lusophone Categorizations'; Chapter 14: Spectacles, Lenses and Magnifying Glasses: Critical Approaches in the Definition of the Canon of African Literature; Chapter 15: Literary Responses in Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Europe: The Literatures of Diaspora in Portugal and Britain; Chapter 16: Voices in Shades of Grey; Abstracts and Biographical Notes; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-16264-4

9786613162649

1-84150-445-9

OCLC:

714572261