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.
Author(s): David D. Kim (editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 278
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Action! On Reframing Postcolonial Patrimony
Postcolonial Patriarchy, Inclusive Patrimony
Regenerating the Future of Postcolonial Studies
Chapter Summaries
References
Part I: Conceptual Vigilance
Chapter 2: Unlocking the Future: Utopia and Postcolonial Literatures
Art and Literature
Postcolonial Utopia and the Nation
Memory and the Future
Modes of Utopian Thinking in Postcolonial Writing
Chicano Borderlands
The Caribbean
The Pacific-Oceanic Hope
Settler Colonies: Creating a New World
References
Chapter 3: On the Wings of the Gallic Cockerel: Ahmed Benyahia and the Provenance of an Algerian Public Sculpture
A Case Study in Provenance: Ahmed Benyahia and the Statue of Youcef Zighoud
Commemoration Through Street Renaming or Statues?
Anticolonial Sculpture Through the Reproduction of Colonial Statuary
References
Chapter 4: Bibliodiversity: Denationalizing and Defrancophonizing Francophonie
Reframing Diplomacy
A History of Violence
Reframing Francophonie
Horizontality: Denationalizing and Defrancophonizing Francophonie
“We Are in a Country That Is Called the French Language”
References
Part II: Hybrid Methodologies
Chapter 5: Kinships of the Sea: Comparative History, Minor Solidarity, and Transoceanic Empathy
Transoceanic Dialogues, Subaltern Agencies
Unknown Destinations, Hope-Filled Trajectories
Transversal Solidarity, Shared Humanity
Interactive Readings and the Work of Empathy
Transcultural Literacy and the Grievable Body
References
Chapter 6: Re-charge: Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities
Time, Work, Power
“Stock,” “Flow,” “Colonial Difference”
Bhadralok, Ryot, Coolie
References
Chapter 7: From Cecil Rhodes to Emmett Till: Postcolonial Dilemmas in Visual Representation
The Story of Emmett Till
Cecil Rhodes
Conclusion
References
Part III: Action-Based Scholarships
Chapter 8: Research in Solidarity? Investigating Namibian-German Memory Politics in the Aftermath of Colonial Genocide
Genocide in German Southwest Africa
Communal Memory Versus Colonial Amnesia
Transnational Solidarity in Postcolonial Settings
Solidarity in Diverse and Asymmetrical Settings
Researching and Doing Memory Politics
References
Chapter 9: Postcolonial Activists and European Museums
Decolonizing Institutional Structures
Decolonizing Perception
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Frantz Fanon in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks
#Black Lives Matter
Intersectional Solidarity
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Afterword
References
Index
