Nicolas Wasser critically examines how sexual and racial identities are currently being articulated through capitalist brands and labor. On the basis of an ethnographic case study about a Brazilian fa
The Swedish documentary My Heart of Darkness (2011) tells the story of a South African paratrooper returning to Angola. Facing former enemies, he tries to regain mental health and find reconciliation.
Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the United States, Ghana, South Africa, Canada, and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison'
Historical photographs taken in Latin America have become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to
This collection brings together experts from media and communication studies with postcolonial studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. It encompasses ess
?Caribbean Food Cultures? approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into s
Scholars of literature and culture show how migrant aesthetics, language, and imagination in art forms can offer insights into the state of postcolonial studies, particularly about the interactions be
Boruszko (Pepperdine U.) produces a (literary-metaphorical) "cartography" of Spain by exploring multi-lingual examples of 21st-century literature produced in Spain (including under her purview both re
Highfield (English, Rhode Island School of Design) explores literary and artistic representations of threatened landscapes in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Over the course of three chapters indi
Yacoubi, (Near Eastern studies, Ohio State U.), a professor with a background in Arab-American studies, modern Arabic literature, and critical theory, argues that Salmon Rushdie's fiction operates bot
Rojer (German studies, American U, Washington D.C.) and Aimone (English, U. of Houston-Downtown) translate from the Creole language Papiamentu Haseth's 1988 novella Katibu di Shon (Slave and Master).
Quoting from the author's bio at the website of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas: "His research and teaching are interdisciplinary and comparative. They include, but are not limited to, Renaissance
A critic and teacher of contemporary and postcolonial literature, Farca analyzes the role of place and its cultural significance in the fiction of eight contemporary indigenous women writers in the fo
Singh (English, Northern Michigan U.) and Chetty (education, Cape Peninsula U. of Technology, South Africa) present 12 essays on writers of the Indian diaspora. The diasporic experience is the themati
Strahorn (South Asian and world history, Florida Gulf Coast U.) examines the environmental history of the Terai region of the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the independence era. He
Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realiti
This collection of essays considers the ways and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalisation' its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the North Atl
Recent years have seen a growing body of literature dedicated to memories of slavery in the Anglophone world, yet little has been done to approach this subject from Francophone perspectives. This coll
This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relation
Translation—as a concept—has become central to postcolonial theory in recent decades, offering useful insights and metaphors for the processes explored within the framework of postcolonial studies. Bu
In American Creoles, leading authorities examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South. The essays focus on issues of history, langua
In 2007 Le Monde published a “Manifesto for a World Literature.” Signed by a multinational group of authors—many from former French colonies—the manifesto has drawn mixed reactions. Praised by some fo
Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial
This book examines the effects of postcolonial globalization on the Thai higher education system and the potential of Thai universities to balance old knowledge traditions, Buddhist and rural, with ne
In the first book on Aztec dance in the United States, Ernesto Colín combines cultural anthropology, educational theory, and postcolonial theory to create an innovative, interdisciplinary, long-term e
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the constructi
Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines Vietnamese American youth gang formation in Southern California, with an emphasis on the experiences of those heavily involved in the 1990s. Lam traces the
"In this work exploring the Kayble people of Algeria and their educational journeys, Si Belkacem Taieb explores an epistemological and ontological framework for Kayble education. He does so by underta
This book presents an ethnography of contemporary indigenous education through the spirit practice, dance ceremonies, and cultural diffusion efforts of a Mexica (Aztec) dance circle in the United Stat
