Full Description
The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical levels of postcolonial studies. By studying film, literature, history and architecture, they arrive at new ideas about immigration, gender, cultural translation, identity and the future. The collection is driven by notions of ethics, an increasingly influential force at the grassroots if not the international level, addressing capitalism and its attendant drawbacks throughout the course of the book.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword (Rajen Harshé)
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Introduction: Postcolonial Studies in the Age of Globalization (Om Prakash Dwivedi and Martin Kich)
Postcolonialism and Recovery: A Future Evermore About to Be (Roderick McGillis)
Going Global: The Future of Post-Colonial Studies (Bill Ashcroft)
"Pity the Poor Immigrant": Pity and the Colony (David Punter)
From Colonial Outsider to Postcolonial Insider: Screen Adaptations from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa (Janet Wilson)
Resistance to Responsibility: Interrupting the Postcolonial
Paradigm (David Huddart)
Cultural Translation in the Age of Globalization (Shaobo Xie)
Hybridity and Identity in New Zealand Māori Literature: Alan Duff's Dreamboat Dad (Alistair Fox)
Slumdogs and Dogs' Breakfasts: Reading Danny Boyle's Slumdog
Millionaire and Baz Luhrmann's Australia (Susan Hosking)
Gender, Hybridity and the Transcultural "Man Alone" in the Short Fiction of Frank Sargeson and Doris Lessing (Joel Gwynne)
Postmodernist Postcolonialisms and Feminisms: A Passion
for Justice (Varghese Thekkevallyara)
Postcolonialisms, Globalization and Iconic Architecture (Leslie Sklair)
Radical Homelessness: David Malouf Writing in the "Blut" of Martin Heidegger (Grant Farred)
Global Victorians: Is Colonial Decadence to Blame for Postcolonial Deconstruction? (Clara A.B. Joseph)
About the Contributors
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