Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world / editors, Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren.
| Other author | Hoffmann, Anette, 1965- |
| Other author | Peeren, Esther. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, |
| Description | 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race, 1570-7253 ; no. 20 Thamyris intersecting ; no. 20. ^A697788 |
| Contents | Introduction : Representation matters / Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren -- 1. Concepts of postcolonial identity : contingent articulations. Alterity and identities : the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta -- Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski -- The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan -- Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit -- Resistance or compliance? : the problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / Gülru Çakmak -- 2. Relational histories. Romani identity formation and the globalization of Holocaust discourse / Huub van Baar -- Similarity and difference : the appearance of suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly -- 3. Rethinking origins and indigeneity. Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann -- From Salsipuedes to Tabaré : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok -- Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. Reinventing tradition. Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual : some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser -- "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson -- Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen -- Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010282517 |
| ISBN | 9789042028456 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9042028459 (pbk.) |
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