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...Olivia C. Harrison [email protected] Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony . By Jill Jarvis . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . x + 273 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Decolonizing Memory is a welcome contribution...

..., are read as symptomatic of a broad cultural and historical shift. While realism registers the knowability and transformability of the present, modernism captures anxiety and the disintegration of agency. As decolonizing and emancipatory hopes shrink in the Middle East, Palestinian modernism emerges...

...Peter Kalliney Abstract Modernist concepts, especially aesthetic autonomy, were fundamental to the literature of decolonization in anglophone Africa. An archival examination of Black Orpheus , Transition , the Transcription Centre, and the African Writers of English Expression conference...

...Eleni Coundouriotis Abstract The African novel has had an uneasy relationship with world literature, but a way to locate the historical novel in world literature lies in the emphatic turn of African fiction to the historical novel. Positing a temporality of a decolonization not yet achieved...

... outcomes of correct or incorrect ideas. Thus the essay “The Wrong Causes for the Wrong Reasons” provides a jaundiced assessment of decolonization discourse. After expounding the discursive flaws of a prime nineteenth-century apologist of colonialism, Leroy-Beaulieu, Todorov nev- ertheless...

... of writing in the colonial world, especially dur- Performing a New France ing the period of decolonization beginning with the Bengali Renais- sance in the s and ending with the independence of many African and Caribbean nations in the s. Tied to the politics...

... of the West and the spread of Western modernity, since the fif- teenth century, have been depicted by anticolonial and anti-imperial thinkers whose work is tied to demands for decolonization. The essay focuses on four tropes advanced as correctives or counternarratives to the story of diffusion...

... rehabilitation of Góngora was, in turn, formative for the Cuban writers José Lezama Lima and Alejo Carpentier, whose “Americaniza- tion of the Baroque” in the 1950s and 1960s popularized the notion of a decolonizing, insurgent New World baroque independent of Europe (Chiampi, “El barroco,” 21 – 27).6...

... into the twenty-first century, explores the shifting aesthetics of southern African writers in rendering the regional “Border Wars” and the Angolan decolonization struggle of the 1970s. The book’s most valuable contribution is its illumination of African writers’ intellectual independence. Their Cold War...

...-Sytsma uncovers a startling set of interlocking relationships among poets from Nigeria, Ireland, the Caribbean, and multiracial postwar Britain during the period of midcentury decolonization (1950s–1970s). In the past decade or so, scholars have emphasized the cross-cultural constitution of postcolonial...

... and to legitimate their control. Opera’s physical appearance, by itself, was a decolonizing sign of cultural newness. But its plots, which often relied on conflict between Christian and Moor, also helped Mexicans reflect on their own history, during which they had been judged idolatrous and racially...

... Fiction as Decolonizing Project (Amsterdam: Rodopi, Oliver Lovesey, “Making Use of the Past in Things Fall Apart,” in “Things Fall Apart,” ed. Harold Bloom, Modern Critical Interpretations (New York: Chelsea House, n , n ; Christine Levecq, “(De)romanticizing the Land in the Dutch East Indies...

... so for Tutuola, whose general lack of development as an author is analogically linked to the issue of economic and political development in the recently decolonized countries of West Africa. The argument by analogy is weakened by its dependence on an association between autonomy and development...

... in the process of decolonization. But the inadequacy of European languages and of the novel itself for the representation of postcoloniality led Sembene to become a film director and Ngugi to abandon the novel altogether in favor of theater pieces composed in Kikuyu. Where Said envisions an intellectual...

... have everything to do with history and historical change and with the pas- sage from a national moment of decolonization to one of helpless mar- ket globalization, passing through all kinds of attempts to denounce corruption in the neocolonial era. All this changes with the bookended...

... and decolonization? This inconvenient truth is the specter that haunts accounts of slavery in the past. Ideology critique takes us only so far. ▪ ▪ ▪ Gikandi finds that eighteenth-century aesthetics brings violence, beauty, and emancipation together under one roof. The relations between aesthetics...

...John Dagenais © 2004 University of Washington 2004 John Dagenais is professor of Spanish at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture: Glossing the “Libro de buen amor” (1994)and “Decolonizing the Middle Ages...

... is the sense that nothing is too far afield: every text, in this editor’s view, is both readable and read. This expansiveness pushes back against the idea that the Republic of Letters somehow maps onto the Anglocentric world, while addressing the urgent need to broaden and decolonize our archive. Publishing...

..., “The Decolonization of Myself,” Race 7 (1966): 330. Carl E. Schorske’s reading of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams as the veiled affect of his political disem- powerment in an increasingly anti-Semitic environment could offer an interesting jux- taposition with the texts...

..., “The Decolonization of Myself,” Race 7 (1966): 330. Carl E. Schorske’s reading of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams as the veiled affect of his political disem- powerment in an increasingly anti-Semitic environment could offer an interesting jux- taposition with the texts...