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Gisela Cánepa Koch
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Ingrid Kummels
(eds.)
Photography in Latin America
Images and Identities Across Time and Space
This book explores how photographic images from Latin America are currently being used regarding memory politics, ethnographic imagination, as well as the negotiation of identity.
Kai Merten
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Lucia Krämer
(eds.)
Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies
A Critical Encounter
Essays on selected topics relating to both Postcolonial Studies and Media Studies illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other.
The Transcription of Identities
A Study of V. S. Naipaul's Postcolonial Writings
Identity as a vibrant, complex, and highly controversial concept: a postcolonial sight on the writings of V. S. Naipaul.
(Re-)Framing the Arab/Muslim
Mediating Orientalism in Contemporary Arab American Life Writing
Can only Hollywood movies and TV news frame public discourse? This innovative study demonstrates the potential of life writing to (re-)frame Orientalism in the »West.«
Caribbean Food Cultures
Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
»Caribbean Food Cultures« is dedicated to the emerging academic field of Caribbean food studies. The anthology focuses on food and consumption practices, thus filling a gap in contemporary Caribbean and diaspora studies.
Deconstructing Gender in Carnival
A Cross Cultural Investigation of a Social Ritual
Gender at the carnival – this original study unveils the para-political character of seemingly harmless entertainment rituals, looking for nothing less than new forms of social subjectivity.
Dancing Postcolonialism
The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.
Cynthia Nelson
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Shahnaz Rouse
(eds.)
Situating Globalization
Views from Egypt
The range of perspectives and original materials dealt with by each author highlights the renewed urgency of the struggle for cultural autonomy and voice within the context of globalization. In other words, each paper explores how the various processes at both the local and global level intersect to create new discourses and debates round the »indigenization of knowledge.« If a new wind of cultural decolonization is blowing through the Arab Middle East, which is having profound impact on the lives of men and women, then we should expect a new scholarship to emerge in order to grasp and understand it. This book is a contribution in that direction.