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Humanitarian Fictions
This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.
Humanitarian Fictions
Humanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn’t tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Overlapping with but distinct from human rights, humanitarianism centers on a relationship of assistance, focusing less on rights than on needs, less on legal frameworks than moral ones, less on the problem than on the nonstate solution. Tracing the white savior narrative back to religious mission...
Discourses That Matter
How can English and American Studies be instrumental to conceptualizing the deep instability we are presently facing? How can they address the coordinates of this instability, such as war, terrorism, the current economic and financial crisis, and the consequent myriad forms of deprivation and fear? How can they tackle the strategies of de-humanization, invisibility, and the naturalization of inequality and injustice entailed in contemporary discourses? This anthology grew out of an awareness of the need to debate the role of English and American Studies both in the present context and in relation to the so-called demise of the Humanities. Drawing on Judith Butler’s rethinking of materialit...
Post-Backlash Human Rights Law
What are the legal consequences of the political phenomenon of human rights backlash? After providing a novel definition of the phenomenon, Sanja Dragic explores some of the rules generated as a reaction to the backlash—“the post-backlash human rights law”. Three case studies meticulously analyze the legal conversations between the opposing states and the global human rights community before the new rules appeared on the international scene. The picture that emerges from these insights is of an unequal relationship between the opposing sides and the post-backlash law which sustains the afflicted structure.
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity
A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898–1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America’s most prominent and prolific “social viewpoint” artists from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. Revealing why Shahn remains so relevant today, the book examines his commitment to progressive political causes, from combating fascism to fighting for civil rights. Incorporating international perspectives, it investigates his World War II poster art, labor-related w...
Colonial Discourse and the Jesus-fication of King Chaka
Although Chaka is considered an African literary masterpiece, Thomas Mofolo has paradoxically been dismissed by critics as an author naively extolling the virtues of the white man’s “civilizing mission” in Africa. Daniel M. Mengara’s Colonial Discourse and the Jesus-fication of King Chaka: How Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka Turned the Zulu Monarch into a Messiah offers a rereading of Chaka to show that Mofolo in fact astutely deconstructs, and then reconstructs, Zulu king Chaka into a messianic figure whose life trajectory and destiny blasphemously mirror those of Jesus Christ. This volume avoids the pitfalls of the traditional “mission interpretations” of Chaka and provides an interpre...
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V
The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and Royal Supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond Britain and Ireland—and also analyses newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and chara...
Power and Ideology in South African Translation
This book provides a social interpretation of written South African translation history from the seventeenth century to the present, considering how trends involving various languages have reflected ideologies and unequal power relations and focusing attention on translation’s often hidden social operation. Translation is investigated in relation to colonial mercantilism, scientific knowledge of extraction, Christian missionary conversion, Islamic education, various nationalisms, apartheid oppression and the anti-apartheid struggle, neoliberalism, exclusion and post-apartheid social transformation by employing Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. This book will be an essential resource for scholars, graduate students, and general readers who are interested in or work on the history and practice of translation and its cultural agents in the South African context.
Nijerya'da Boko Haram Çatışması Taraflar, Talepler ve Çözüm Önerileri
Dünyamızın en önemli toprak parçalarından biri olan Afrika kıtası, aynı zamanda insanlık tarihi açısından da önem teşkil etmektedir. Bu yönüyle kıta, insanlığın ilk yerleşkelerinden biri olarak da kabul edilir. Tarihsel süreçte Türkiye’nin Afrika kıtası ile ilişkileri incelendiğinde, ilişkilerin 800’lü yıllara kadar götürülebileceği aşikârdır. Buradan hareketle ikili ilişkilerin yeni olmadığı, her geçen yıllar daha da geliştiği gözlemlenmektedir. Nitekim son yıllarda sadece Türkiye-Afrika ilişkileri üzerine değil, doğrudan Afrika’daki sorunlar üzerine de odaklanan akademik çalışmalar yürütülmektedir. Bu çalışmalardan biri de Cihan Daban’ın Afrika’da Kimlik Temelli Çatışmaların Analizi: Nijerya’da Boko Haram Örneği başlıklı doktora tezinden türettiği Nijerya’da Boko Haram Çatışması: Taraflar, Talepler ve Çözüm Önerileri başlığıyla yayımlanmış bu çalışmasıdır. Türkçe literatüre önemli bir katkı sağlamıştır
THE AFRICAS IN THE WORLD AND THE WORLD IN THE AFRICAS
Grounded in a thoughtful comparatist approach, The Africas in the World and the World in the Africas is a collection of innovative and enlightening essays that broaden our understanding not only of the Africas that have spread across the world, but also those that, continually regenerated within this remarkably diverse continent, address the paradoxes created by old and new forms of domination. Recognizing the ongoing expansion of western culture and the role that the languages of the former imperial powers often play in literary studies, the editors have chosen to focus on African authors who, from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, have challenged their historical contexts and ideological dynamics to present new horizons of reading.
