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After Modernism
While celebrating the centenary of the “annus mirabilis” of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory. Out of the figures, narratives and concepts they have developed, a less universal, more global, decentred, context-specific, interconnected modernism emerges. In “after modernism” the meanings of “after” include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected genealogies and intertexts—“high” and “low,” yet offering unacknowledged ontological, epistemological, conceptual and figurative resources. How have artists of the Global South negotiate...
The Epic World
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to re...
Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Post/Colonial Anglophone World
The English-speaking world today is so diverse that readers need a gateway to its many postcolonial narratives and art forms. This collection of essays examines this diver¬sity and what brings so many different cul¬tures together. Whether Indian, Canadian, Australasian or Zimbabwean, the stories dis¬cussed focus on how artists render experi¬ences of separation, belonging, and loss. The histories and transformations postcolonial countries have gone through have given rise to a wide range of myths that retrace their birth, evolution, and decline. Myths have enabled ethnic communities to live together; the first section of this collection dwells on stories, which can be both inclusive and e...
Nordic Approaches to Climate-Related Human Mobility
Academic discussion of climate‐related human mobility has understandably focused on the places where people are especially vulnerable to climate‐related harm: the Global South. Yet, the unique biophysical, legal and socio‐political characteristics of the Nordic region, as well as its roles as both ‘home’ and ‘host’ to climate‐related mobilities, justify its independent attention. Filling this lacuna, this collection is the first to address climate‐related human mobility in the Nordic region. It is a timely and much needed collection, which brings together leading and emerging voices from both academia and practice in a single volume, spanning policy and geographical breadth...
Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa
From Senegal in the west to the Comoros islands in the east, this collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of 'independence' in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean. With methods and perspectives that cross traditional disciplinary barriers, Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa proposes fresh insights into the process of decolonisation in this part of the world.
Essai d’histoire locale by Djiguiba Camara
Dans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.
The violence of colonial photography
The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and to project an image of supremacy across the world. Drawing on a wealth of visual materials, from soldiers’ personal albums to the collections of press agencies and government archives, this book offers a new account of how conflict photography developed in the decades leading up to the First World War. It explores the various ways in which the camera was used to impose order on subject populations in Africa and Asia and to generate propaganda for the public in Europe, where a visual economy of violence was rapidly taking shape. At the same time, it reveals how photographs could escape the intentions of their creators, offering a means for colonial subjects to push back against oppression.
Littératures en langues africaines
Les littératures en langues africaines sont encore mal connues, alors qu’elles sont riches et très diversifiées, réunissant aussi bien des productions orales que des productions écrites en plusieurs graphies. Ce volume présente des études sur les littératures de treize pays : Algérie, Cameroun, Comores, Djibouti, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigéria, Rwanda, Sénégal, Tanzanie et Tchad. Les langues concernées sont le bulu, le hausa, l’igbo, le kabyle, le kinyarwanda, le malgache, le mandingue, l’orungo, le peul, le shikomori, le somali, le swahili, le tupuri et le wolof. Les vingt-deux contributions s’organisent selon deux problématiques : la production d’abord et l...
Les Mondains sauvages
Cet essai renverse le regard porté sur les récits d’arrivées dans les grandes villes : et si ces « romans d’apprentissages », ces « romans de migrations », au lieu d’être des trajectoires d’émancipation, n’étaient-ils pas plutôt des romans d’ensauvagement ? La ville, l’urbanité n’est pas le stade ultime de la civilisation : au sein de sociétés capitalistes et inégalitaires, c’est bien le mythe positif de la ville contemporaine qu’il faut revoir à nouveaux frais. À partir des chefs-d’oeuvre de Marcel Proust, d’Osman Lins, de V. S. Naipaul, de Joyce Carol Oates et de Roberto Bolaño, l’auteur s’attache à définir ce qu’il entend par « mondains s...
