Anne Holden Rønning and Lene Johannessen, eds., Readings of the Particular. The Postcolonial in the Postnational

This collection of essays engages with the “problematic and scale of contemporary border-crossings,” crystallizing in the range of transcultural identities it produces. It aims to explore the merits of the postcolonial perspective, given its indeterminations (e.g. Dirlik) and tricky overlap with gl...

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में प्रकाशित:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces,
मुख्य लेखक: Schabio, Saskia
स्वरूप: Article ou chapitre numérique
भाषा:Anglais
प्रकाशित: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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सारांश:This collection of essays engages with the “problematic and scale of contemporary border-crossings,” crystallizing in the range of transcultural identities it produces. It aims to explore the merits of the postcolonial perspective, given its indeterminations (e.g. Dirlik) and tricky overlap with globalization theories. To oppose the latter’s abstracting view, the particular is found in the postcolonial aesthetic. Bypassing the impass of any essentialist or comparativist approach to the issue...