Crossings: Introduction

Although common currency in the field of postcolonial studies for some time now, the concept of “crossings” continues to be an insightful entry point into a domain which, since its birth, has been at the crossroads of several disciplines in the humanities. The term seems to have natural moorings bo...

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Hlavní autor: Král, Françoise
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:Although common currency in the field of postcolonial studies for some time now, the concept of “crossings” continues to be an insightful entry point into a domain which, since its birth, has been at the crossroads of several disciplines in the humanities. The term seems to have natural moorings both in the history of postcolonial studies, as exemplified notably by the triangular geography of the slave trade, the commercial trajectories of overseas trade and the redeployment of these traject...