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Contested Communities - Communication, Narration, Imagination (Hardcover)
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Contested Communities - Communication, Narration, Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Cross/Cultures, 190
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This interdisciplinary volume investigates com-munity in
postcolonial language situations, texts, and media. In actual and
imagined communities, membership assumes shared features - values,
linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexuality,
ethnicity, religion, professional interests and practices. How is
membership in such communities constructed, manifested, tested or
contested? What new forms have emerged in the wake of
globalization, translocation, and digital media? Contributions in
linguistic, literary, and cultural studies explore the role of
communication, narratives, memory, and trauma in processes of
(un)belonging. One section treats communication and the speech
community. Here, linguistic contribu-tions investigate the concept
of the native speaker in World Englishes, in socio-cultural
communities identified by styles of verbal duelling, in diaspora
communities, physical and digital, where identification with
formerly stigmatized linguistic codes acquires new currency.
Divisions and alignments in digital communities are at stake in
postcolonial African countries like Cameroon where identification
with ex-colonizer and ex-colonized is a hot issue. Finally,
discourse communities also exist in such traditional media as
newspapers (e.g., the Indian tabloid in English). In a section
devoted to narrative and narration, the focus is on literary
perspectives - post-colonial memory, trauma, and identity in
Caribbean literary works by David Chariandy and Pauline Melville
and in Australian Aboriginal fiction; narratives of banditry in
colonial India; xenophobia and urban space in South Africa;
human-animal community crossings and anthropomorphism in Life of
Pi. A third section, on linguistic crossings in transnational music
styles in global and Ugandan music industries, examines language,
style, and belonging in music cultures. The volume closes with a
controversial debate on the agendas of academic/non-academic and
postcolonial/Western communities with regard to homophobia in
Jamaican dancehall culture. CONTRIBUTORS Eric A. Anchimbe, Susan
Arndt, Roman Bartosch, Carolyn Cooper, Daria Dayter, Dagmar Deuber,
Tobias Doering, Stephanie Hackert, Caroline Koegler, Stephan Laque,
Andrea Moll, Susanne Muhleisen, Jochen Petzold, Katja Sarkowsky,
Britta Schneider, Anne Schroeder, Jude Ssempuuma, Robert JC Young
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