This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are carried in culture, language, and history in various parts of the world.
It analyzes constructions of identities, stereotypes, and mythical fantasies in postcolonial society. Exploring a wide range of themes including the appropriation and use of language, myths of decolonialization, and nationalism, and the colonial influence on systems of academic knowledge, the book focuses on how these myths reinforce, subvert, and appropriate colonial binaries for the articulation of the postcolonial self. With essays which study narratives of emigrants in Argentina, the colonial mythology in the Dodecanese in Italy, and the mythico-narratives of island insularity in contemporary Sri Lanka among others, this volume emphasizes the role of indigenous studies in building a postcolonial consciousness.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of post-colonial studies, cultural studies, literature, history, political science, and sociology.
Author(s): Arti Nirmal, Sayan Dey
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 190
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Marching Memories: Histories, Myths, and Fantasies
1 The “Good Italian” Fable and the Case of the Dodecanese
2 Decolonizing Sinixt “Extinction”: Settler Allies in Indigenous Resurgence
3 Legitimizing Myths and Legends: The Social Construction of Gender Stereotypes
4 Islanded Hauntings: Sri Lanka’s Seascape Imaginaries and Mythico-histories of the Insular
Part 2 Everyday Decoloniality: Engagements and Experiences of Everyday Life
5 Decolonial Re-existence and the Myths of Knowledge Production
6 Re-visioning and Revision-ing the “Nation”: Teaching History and Mythology to the Children of the Parivar
7 “Pustuled Sufferer and Pitted Survivor”: A Decolonial Reading of Smallpox Narratives in India
8 A Decolonial Dreaming
Index
