Postcolonial Justice

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33503-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 191, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Postcolonial Justice addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in “utopian ideals” of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartels, Anke

Eckstein, Lars

Waller, Nicole

Wiemann, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Postcolonial Justice: An Introduction
Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller, Dirk Wiemann

Decolonising Regimes of Knowledge
Postcolonial Injustice: Rationality, Knowledge and Law in the Face of Multiple Epistemologies and Ontologies: A Spatial Performative Approach – David Turnbull
Epistemic Injustice: African Knowledge and Scholarship in the Global Context – James Odhiambo Ogone
Shakespeare in Dantewada: Rescuing Postcolonialism through Pedagogic Reformulations and Academic Activism – Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das
Postcolonial Orientalism: A Study of the Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric of Middle Eastern Intellectuals in Diaspora – Mahmoud Arghavan

Literary Trials of Justice
Poetic Justice? Christopher Okigbo, Dedan Kimathi and Robert Mugabe on Literary Trial – Frank Schulze-Engler
A New Reading of Wulf Sachs’ Black Hamlet (1937) – Lotte Kößler
The Poetics of Justice in Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir: Narrative Construction and Reader Response – Kirsten Sandrock
HeLa and The Help: Justice and African American Women in White Women’s Narratives – Christine Vogt-William

Re/Visions of Gendered Violence
A Darker Shade of Justice: Violence, Liberation, and Afrofuturist Fantasy in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death – Julia Hoydis
An Endless Game: Neocolonial Injustice in Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia – Beatriz Pérez Zapata
Slavery and Resilience in Caryl Phillips’s Novel Cambridge – Karin Ikas

(Post)Imperial Orders of Travel and Space
Justice and the Company: Economic Imperatives in The Journal of Jan van Riebeeck (1652-1662) – Lianne van Kralingen
The Speed of Decolonisation: Travel, Modernisation and the 1955 Bandung Conference – Prudence Black
De-cloaking Invisibility: Remembering Colonial South-West Africa – Monica van der Haagen-Wulff

Justice within and without the Law
‘It’s All about the Children’: Child Asylum Seekers and the Politics of Innocence in Australia – Carly McLaughlin
Aspirin or Amplifier? Reconciliation, Justice, and the Performance of National Identity in Canada –Hanna Teichler
‘So It Happens that We are Relegated to the Condition of the Aborigines of the American Continent’: Disavowing and Reclaiming Sovereignty in Liliuokalani’s Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen and the Congressional Morgan Report – Jens Temmen

Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anke Bartels is senior lecturer in English at the University of Potsdam; Lars Eckstein is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures outside of GB and the US at the University of Potsdam; Nicole Waller is Professor of American Studies at the University of Potsdam; Dirk Wiemann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Potsdam.