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The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the
forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as
history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their
extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same
time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to
post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas.
This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South
Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is
matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the
whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial"
itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter
Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes,
Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the
past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new
generation. 'New Accents' is intended as a positive response to the
initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series
will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to
stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define
literature and its academic study. The present selection of papers,
made from nearly two hundred published, represents in some measure
the diversity of the work at the eight Essex Sociology of
Literature Conferences.
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of
the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from
postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth
century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization
lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to
films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of
the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating
colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is
now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial
than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged
from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and
breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study
examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges
from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This
analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each
essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The First Folio (1623)
text, accompanied by the editors' preface and detailed explanatory
annotations. * A rich collection of source materials by Ovid,
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, King James I, Michel de Montaigne
and others centered on the play's major themes of magic,
witchcraft, politics, religion, geography and travel. * Seventeen
wide-ranging scholarly essays, seven of them new to the Second
Edition. * Nineteen rescriptings that speak to The Tempest's
enduring inspiration and provocation for writers from Thomas
Heywood and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Aime Cesaire and Ted Hughes. *
A Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12
million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions
set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate
readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts and
criticism-helps students to better understand, analyse and
appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching
possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital
format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students
need.
First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the
past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new
generation. 'New Accents' is intended as a positive response to the
initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series
will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to
stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define
literature and its academic study. The present selection of papers,
made from nearly two hundred published, represents in some measure
the diversity of the work at the eight Essex Sociology of
Literature Conferences.
In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an
international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines -
anthropology, literature, art history - discusses the historical
and cultural significance of western fascination with the topic of
cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of
texts - popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and
anthropology - the essays range from classical times to
contemporary critical discourse. Cannibalism and the Colonial World
examines western fascination with the figure of the cannibal and
how this has impacted on the representation of the non-western
world. This group of literary and anthropological scholars analyses
the way cannibalism continues to exist as a term within colonial
discourse and places the discussion of cannibalism in the context
of postcolonial and cultural studies.
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of
the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from
postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth
century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization
lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to
films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of
the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating
colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is
now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial
than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged
from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and
breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study
examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges
from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This
analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each
essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.
The Dinner at Gonfarone's is organised as a partial biography,
covering five years in the life of the young Nicaraguan poet,
Salomon de la Selva, but it also offers a literary geography of
Hispanic New York (Nueva York) in the turbulent years around the
First World War. De la Selva is of interest because he stands as
the largely unacknowledged precursor of Latino writers like Junot
Diaz and Julia Alvarez, writing the first book of poetry in English
by an Hispanic author. In addition, through what he called his
pan-American project, de la Selva brought together in New York
writers from all over the American continent. He put the idea of
trans-American literature into practice long before the concept was
articulated. De la Selva's range of contacts was enormous, and this
book has been made possible through discovery of caches of letters
that he wrote to famous writers of the day, such as Edwin Markham
and Amy Lowell, and especially Edna St Vincent Millay. Alongside de
la Selva's own poetry - his book Tropical Town (1918) and a
previously unknown 1916 manuscript collection - The Dinner at
Gonfarone's highlights other Hispanic writing about New York in
these years by poets such as Ruben Dario, Jose Santos Chocano, and
Juan Ramon Jimenez, all of whom were part of de la Selva's
extensive network.
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing is a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Five essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California, while the final three analyze some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions of this enigmatic, influential genre of writing. An extensive further reading list plus a detailed chronology are included.
W. Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) was a prolific writer -poet,
novelist, journalist, historian. As a political activist he also
laid the groundwork for Jamaican independence. Finally published,
52 years after his death, his autobiography, These Many Years,
offers a representative Caribbean life: rural upbringing,
precocious talent, travel to the USA, literary success, adventures
across the world, involvement in politics, return to Jamaica. In
New York Roberts worked as a journalist and editor. However, in the
mid-1930s, he made contact with Jamaican activists in Harlem and
launched the Jamaica Progressive League, pioneering the movement
for self-government. Moving back to Jamaica, Roberts decided
against a political career, dedicating himself to studying the
region and writing books such as The Caribbean: The Story of Our
Sea of Destiny and Six Great Jamaicans: Biographical Sketches.
Roberts' zestful account of his literary life, his open
recollection of his many lovers, and his frank assessment of his
political friends and enemies, including Norman Manley and
Alexander Bustamante, make These Many Years a vital source for the
Jamaican national story.
The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures,
whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial
issues of the period. In many cases they left a legacy of travel
writing, novels, biography and ethnography which made important
contributions to our knowledge of other cultures."Writing, Travel
and Empire" explores the lives and writings of eight such figures,
including Sir George Grey, Gertrude Bell, Sir Hugh Clifford, and
Roger Casement. All travelled the Empire - from Grey, the renowned
colonial governor who undertook dangerous journeys to the interior
of Australia, to Tom Harrisson, the emaciated polymath, war hero
and Arctic explorer, whose time in the New Hebrides embraced both
cannibalistic rituals and a meeting with film legend Douglas
Fairbanks Sr, who sought Harrisson out for a Hollywood feature
about savage life.All saw themselves as writers, despite their very
different approaches and interests, and each was writing against a
backdrop of the impending disappearance of indigenous cultures
around the world. Writing from the margins of what was shortly to
become the more formalised discipline of anthropology, their work
yields interesting insights into both the issues of empire and the
ways in which academic disciplines define the boundaries of their
subject. Embracing themes such as gender and travel, racial
science, the globalisation of 'native management' and the internal
colonies, and with a geographical coverage that extends from South
America to Russia via Africa and the South Seas, "Writing Travel
and Empire" will engage all those with an interest in cultural
geography, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, biography
and travel writing.
The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures,
whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial
issues of the period. In many cases they left a legacy of travel
writing, novels, biography and ethnography which made important
contributions to our knowledge of other cultures."Writing, Travel
and Empire" explores the lives and writings of eight such figures,
including Sir George Grey, Gertrude Bell, Sir Hugh Clifford, and
Roger Casement. All travelled the Empire - from Grey, the renowned
colonial governor who undertook dangerous journeys to the interior
of Australia, to Tom Harrisson, the emaciated polymath, war hero
and Arctic explorer, whose time in the New Hebrides embraced both
cannibalistic rituals and a meeting with film legend Douglas
Fairbanks Sr, who sought Harrisson out for a Hollywood feature
about savage life.All saw themselves as writers, despite their very
different approaches and interests, and each was writing against a
backdrop of the impending disappearance of indigenous cultures
around the world. Writing from the margins of what was shortly to
become the more formalised discipline of anthropology, their work
yields interesting insights into both the issues of empire and the
ways in which academic disciplines define the boundaries of their
subject. Embracing themes such as gender and travel, racial
science, the globalisation of 'native management' and the internal
colonies, and with a geographical coverage that extends from South
America to Russia via Africa and the South Seas, "Writing Travel
and Empire" will engage all those with an interest in cultural
geography, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, biography
and travel writing.
In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of Western fascination with the topic of cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of texts--popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology--the essays range from classical times to contemporary critical discourse. This group of literary and anthropological scholars places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.
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