Reframing Postcolonial Studies (eBook)

Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms

David D. Kim (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2021
XVII, 278 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-52726-6 (ISBN)

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This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitly intergenerational, future-oriented terms.

David D. Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2020
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 278 p. 13 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: energy humanities • European ethnology museums • Francophone world • Memory Politics • Migration in Literature • postcolonial theory • utopian theory
• ISBN-10: 3-030-52726-3 / 3030527263
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-52726-6 / 9783030527266