Search Results for anticolonial nationalism

...Graham MacPhee This essay challenges the dismissal of nationalist politics in readings of Ulysses by reconnecting the “Cyclops” episode to the aporias of modern political thought. Drawing from Joyce’s neglected notes to the episode, it relocates anticolonial nationalism within the diremption...

... it broaches are those Under Western Eyes calibrates four years earlier—namely, attacks on state power, the rise of what Benedict Anderson calls official nationalisms practiced by empires over their colonies, and popular and anticolonial nationalisms in Eastern Europe. These conditions are linked...

... ideological blending of anticolonialism, communism, and uplift in a transnational career as a journalist, writer, and activist that included spells in Nkrumah’s Ghana, where she worked as the nation’s first director of television, and in Nasser’s Egypt. Rasberry’s memorable account of Graham’s ambitious...

...Mukti Lakhi Mangharam Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond , by Wenzel Jennifer , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Mukti Lakhi Mangharam Further Directions for South African...

... accurate because history went the way it did: the “idealist wing [of Indian nationalism] failed to produce the radical changes that it imagined were possible” (50). Shingavi thus reads the novel as “open[ing] up the possibility of alternative futures to nationalism and anticolonialism, ones...

... primarily been discussed in the context of either Canadian or Jamaican literature, subordinating each writer’s cosmopolitanism to her national origins. Snaith’s remapping of London is compelling, but her emphasis on the sea as a facilitator of a distinctly feminist transnational modernism proves her...

... marks throughout the text. Before Langston Hughes rechristened it the Harlem Renaissance in The Big Sea [1940], most black intellectuals called it the Negro Renaissance.) There is really nothing new here—critics have complained for so long that the Harlem Renaissance was really a national...

.... Supplementing these readings that are mostly focused on the US national context, I stress how the ideology of communism or the international Left helps Black intellectuals—Hughes in particular—to understand racial problems in light of global movements of anticapitalism, anticolonialism, and antifascism...

... elite, would later become the leaders of anticolonial movements. The nation they fought for was largely a construction of their colonizers, “formed through the destruction of varied and sometimes ancient cultures of reading, writing, and performing” (98). One of the examples of Orientalist cultural...

... Huggan and Tiffin 2010, 112. 9 Deckard notes that Gurnah’s books have long been beyond the price range of a home readership. See Deckard 2010 , 219n83. 10 I have not engaged the more complex immersion into the anticolonial past’s relational imaginary to the postcolonial future that David...

... can negotiate the coexistence of national and racial affiliations as interdependent categories, he refuses the erasure of one for the sake of the other,” but just as total war renders those categories interdependent it also illuminates how they are irreconcilable. We can thus see the violence encoded...

...Kelly S. Walsh; Yoon-Young Choi This essay tracks the circulation and anticolonial reinvention of European modernist epiphanies in Korean modernist prose. The intertextuality of these epiphanies, the authors contend, enables Pak T’aewŏn, Yi Sang, and Yi Hyosŏk to disclose the fraudulence...

... of a steadily intensifying trend toward inter- nationalization in both. Transnational perspectives were adopted in these fields at different moments and for somewhat different reasons. Amidst the increasingly comparatist and global perspectives that reshaped literary studies in the 1980s and 1990s...

... to invigorate the national literature by incorporating into it the norms of European modernism; Shamlu turns to modernist poetics not in the service of nationalism but to promote the concept of world poetry conjoined to a global politics of resistance. A shared historical experience of anticolonial resistance...

... allows Pearson to harness postcolonial responses to the concept of cosmopolitanism that have questioned its rush to abstract universalism and global unity, while moving beyond postcolonial assessments of Irish modernism that tend to focus intently on contexts of nationalism or anticolonialism...

... in Ireland and a contemporary of engagé intellectuals such as Sartre and Camus in France, his career generally confounds the categories of national literature and “committed” writing. Nonetheless, as McNaughton’s and Morin’s studies demonstrate, to ignore the political implications of his writing...

... themselves to Israeli rule, but also points to how patriarchal nationalism alienates both Palestinians and Jews, and portends only an eternal recurrence of the Nakba . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 The climax of the novella occurs when Dov and Said, who visually...

... are critiquing empire. This argument was developed in order to restore agency to the colonized members of a subject nation seeking emancipation—initially, colonized men. Later it was applied to colonized women by feminist 98 Review postcolonial critics. It seems only fair, then, that Lassner...

... the assimilative process of Christian conversion and the ethics of narrative. In recasting Defoe’s story of the colonial explorer as anticolonial metafiction, I argue that Foe creates a tacit but insistent Christian subtext of failed repetition that binds the two stories together. Within a Derridean framework...

... postcolonization literature: the tendency to assume that any devi­ ation from “linear” narrative is disruptive of colonialist hegemony. Booker rightly points out that this assumption lumps Marxist anticolonial histo­ ries into the same category as imperial propaganda ("Midnight’s Children He might have added...