Format:
1 Online-Ressource (406 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004335196
Series Statement:
Cross cultures 191
Content:
Preliminary Material /Anke Bartels , Lars Eckstein , Nicole Waller and Dirk Wiemann -- Postcolonial Justice: An Introduction /Anke Bartels , Lars Eckstein , Nicole Waller and Dirk Wiemann -- Postcolonial Injustice: Rationality, Knowledge, and Law in the Face of Multiple Epistemologies and Ontologies: A Spatial Performative Approach /David Turnbull -- Epistemic Injustice: African Knowledge and Scholarship in the Global Context /James Odhiambo Ogone -- Shakespeare in Dantewada: Rescuing Postcolonialism Through Pedagogical Reformulations and Academic Activism /Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das -- Postcolonial Orientalism: A Study of the Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric of Middle Eastern Intellectuals in Diaspora /Mahmoud Arghavan -- Poetic Justice? Christopher Okigbo, Dedan Kimathi, and Robert Mugabe on Literary Trial /Frank Schulze–Engler -- “The White Man’s Justice”: A New Reading of Wulf Sachs’s Black Hamlet (1937) /Lotte Kößler -- The Poetics of Justice in Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir: Narrative Construction and Reader Response /Kirsten Sandrock -- HeLa and The Help: Justice and African-American Women in White Women’s Narratives /Christine Vogt–William -- A Darker Shade of Justice: Violence, Liberation, and Afrofuturist Fantasy in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death /Julia Hoydis -- An Endless Game: Neocolonial Injustice in Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia /Beatriz Pérez Zapata -- Slavery and Resilience in Caryl Phillips’s Novel Cambridge /Karin Ikas -- Justice and the Company: Economic Imperatives in the Journal of Jan Van Riebeeck (1652–62) /Lianne Van Kralingen -- The Speed of Decolonization: Travel, Modernization, and the 1955 Bandung Conference /Prudence Black -- De-Cloaking Invisibility: Remembering Colonial South-West Africa /Monica van der Haagen–Wulff -- “It’s All About the Children”: Child Asylum- Seekers and the Politics of Innocence in Australia /Carly Mclaughlin -- Aspirin or Amplifier? Reconciliation, Justice, and the Performance of National Identity in Canada /Hanna Teichler -- “So it happens that we are relegated to the condition of the aborigines of the American continent”: Disavowing and Reclaiming Sovereignty in Liliuokalani’s Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen and the Congressional Morgan Report /Jens Temmen -- Notes on the Contributors and Editors /Anke Bartels , Lars Eckstein , Nicole Waller and Dirk Wiemann -- Index /Anke Bartels , Lars Eckstein , Nicole Waller and Dirk Wiemann.
Content:
Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in “utopian ideals” of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004335035
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Postcolonial justice Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2017 ISBN 900433503X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004335035
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Political Science
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Postkolonialismus
;
Literatur
;
Recht
DOI:
10.1163/9789004335196
Author information:
Bartels, Anke
Author information:
Waller, Nicole 1970-
Author information:
Eckstein, Lars 1975-
Author information:
Wiemann, Dirk 1964-
