Concurrent imaginaries, postcolonial worlds : toward revised histories / edited by Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren, Gunlög Fur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brydon, Diana, editor.

Forsgren, Peter, editor.

Fur, Gunlög Maria, editor.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; Volume 200.

Cross/Cultures, 0924-1426 ; Volume 200

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--Social aspects.

Colonies.

Colonies--Historiography.

Culture and globalization.

Postcolonialism and the arts.

Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2017.

Summary:

Brydon, Forsgren, and Fur’s Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds demonstrates the value of reading for concurrences in situating discussions of archives, voices, and history in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Starting with the premise that our pluriversal world is constructed from concurrent imaginaries yet the role of concurrences has seldom been examined, the collection brings together case studies that confirm the productivity of reading, looking, and listening for concurrences across established boundaries of disciplinary or geopolitical engagement. Contributors working in art history, sociology, literary, and historical studies bring examples of Nordic colonialism together with analyses of colonial practices worldwide. The collection invites uptake of the study of concurrences within the humanities and in interdisciplinary fields such as postcolonial, cultural, and globalization studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Diana Brydon , Peter Forsgren and Gunlög Fur

What Reading for Concurrences Offers Postcolonial Studies / Diana Brydon , Peter Forsgren and Gunlög Fur

Concurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories / Gunlög Fur

Travel Writing and the Representation of Concurrent Worlds: Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound and Noo Saro–Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland / Nickla S Hållén

“Unhallowed Mysteries” in the Colonial Archive: Competing Epistemologies in North America / Gesa Mackenthun

Concurrent Domesticities in Letters from the Colonial Fringe / Margareta Petersson

The ‘Lapland Giantess’ in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition / Linda Andersson Burnett

Oral Tradition and the Postcolonial Challenge: The Historiographical Autonomy of Non-Literate Societies / Hans Hägerdal

Entangled Encounters, Land-Taking, and the Oral Archive: Notes from the Field / Karen V. Hansen

Constructing Otherness in Swedish District Courts: Concurrent Distance-Making Performances During Courtroom Interaction / Torun Elsrud

An African Woman Coming to Voice Through a Multimodal Artwork / Margareta Wallin Wictorin

Asymmetrical Voices: A Concurrent Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not and Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight / Anna Greek

“A Voice Speaking For Me a Riddle”: Postcolonial Voice and Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat / Maria Olaussen

From Colonial Oppression to Social Utopia: The Decolonization of Norrland and Its Limits in the Swedish Historical Novel The Great Wrath (Den stora vreden) / Peter Forsgren

Can the Subaltern Speak Under Duress? Voice, Agency, and Corporal Discipline in Zero Dark Thirty / Johan Höglund

Notes on the Contributors / Diana Brydon , Peter Forsgren and Gunlög Fur

Index / Diana Brydon , Peter Forsgren and Gunlög Fur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34760-7

OCLC:

981602666

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347601 DOI