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Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from
the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and
1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key
theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been
Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the
emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting
texts that pioneered this approach-by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie,
and Sarah Brouillette-as well as emerging scholarship that follows
the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired
work examines the institutions that structure the creation,
dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational
values of the field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to
the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital,
consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial
texts. Topics include explorations of the institutions of the field
such as the B.B.C.'s Caribbean voices program and the South African
publishing industry; analysis of Bourdieu's fieldwork in Algeria
during the decolonization era; and comparisons between Bourdieu's
work and alternative versions of literary sociology such as Pascale
Casanova's and Franco Moretti's. The sociological approach to
literature developed in the collected essays shows how, even if the
commodification of postcolonialism threatens to neutralize the
field's potential for resistance and opposition, a renewed project
of postcolonial critique can be built in the contaminated spaces of
globalization.
Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from
the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and
1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key
theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been
Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the
emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting
texts that pioneered this approach-by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie,
and Sarah Brouillette-as well as emerging scholarship that follows
the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired
work examines the institutions that structure the creation,
dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational
values of the field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to
the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital,
consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial
texts. Topics include explorations of the institutions of the field
such as the B.B.C.'s Caribbean voices program and the South African
publishing industry; analysis of Bourdieu's fieldwork in Algeria
during the decolonization era; and comparisons between Bourdieu's
work and alternative versions of literary sociology such as Pascale
Casanova's and Franco Moretti's. The sociological approach to
literature developed in the collected essays shows how, even if the
commodification of postcolonialism threatens to neutralize the
field's potential for resistance and opposition, a renewed project
of postcolonial critique can be built in the contaminated spaces of
globalization.
Perspectives that shatter the stereotypes and expand understanding
of a complex island nation Essays by Matthew Casey, Myriam J. A.
Chancy, Bethany Aery Clerico, J. Michael Dash, Christopher Garland,
Sibylle Fischer, Jeff Karem, David P. Kilroy, Nadeve Menard, and
Lindsay Twa Haiti has long played an important role in global
perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often
appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a
beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave
revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious
island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the
hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism,
or is its main lesson one of failure? Haiti and the Americas brings
together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the
influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the
ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at
Haiti's own cultural expressions in order to think about
alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking
about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes.
Haiti is often represented as the region's nadir of poverty, of
political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage
fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation,
unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness
that is in need of more powerful neighbors to take control.
Essayists in Haiti and the Americas present a fuller picture,
developing approaches that can account for the complexity of
Haitian history and culture. Carla Calarge, Boca Raton, Florida, is
assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Florida
Atlantic University. Her work has appeared in French Forum, French
Review, and Presence Francophone, among others. Raphael Dalleo,
Delray Beach, Florida, is associate professor of English at Florida
Atlantic University. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the
Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial and coauthor
of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature.
Luis Duno-Gottberg, Houston, Texas, is associate professor of
Caribbean studies and film at Rice University. He is the author of
Solventar las diferencias: La ideologia del mestizaje en Cuba and
Albert Camus, Naturaleza: Patria y Exilio. Clevis Headley, Delray
Beach, Florida, is associate professor of philosophy at Florida
Atlantic University. He is the coeditor of Shifting the Geography
of Reason: Gender, Science and Religion.
The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development
of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary
texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by
major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important
moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean
contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation
publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional
reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in
this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of
writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of
pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the
African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S.
Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated
figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith
Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean
literature.
In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the
evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing and
displaced, transnational space. It considers the imagined community
in the islands as its psycho-social homeland, while simultaneously
pursuing different cultural strategies of redefining and resisting
colonial 'homeland' conventions (which Kamau Brathwaite
appropriately termed the 'inner plantation'). Thus, the
Trans-Caribbean is suspended in a double-dialectic, which opposes
both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the
romanticized, yet colonialized, 'inner plantation, ' whose
transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an
illusion. Given this, cultural production and migration remain at
the vortex of the Trans-Caribbean. The construction of cultural
products in the Trans-Caribbean understood as a collection of
social and new migratory practices both reflects and contests
post-colonial metropolitan hegemonies. Following Arjun Appadurai's
distinction, these homogenizing and heterogenizing counter-trends
in Trans-Cariabbean spaces can be observed through cultural
transactions manifesting themselves as ethnoscapes, mediascapes,
technoscapes, financescapes, cityscapes, ideoscapes, etc. For the
purposes of this book the editors invited anthropologists,
sociologists, political scientists, linguists, liberal arts and
gender studies specialists, as well as cultural and literary
historians to begin drawing some of the diasporic trajectories on
the huge canvas of cultural production throughout the
Trans-Caribbean.Constructing Vernacular Culture in the
Trans-Caribbean will find its audience among scholars in cultural
studies, migration, literary theory, and cultural criticism who
have a special interest in Caribbean and Latin American Studies, as
well as among students and scholars of migration and
postcolonialism and postmodernity in general."
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