1st Edition
Critical Branding Postcolonial Studies and the Market
By Caroline Koegler
Copyright 2018
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
476 Pages
by
Routledge
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Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market provides an original answer to what Sarah Brouillette has called postcolonial studies’ ‘longstanding materialist challenge’, illuminating the relationship between what is often broadly called ‘the market’ and the practice and positionality of postcolonial critics and their field, postcolonial studies. After much attention has been... Read more
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Consolidating Postcolonialism 1 Reading the Longstanding Materialist Challenge PART II Reworking the Market 2 The Market: Permeation 3 Marketisation: Differentiation 4 The Brand Becomes the Product: Transformation 5 (Self-)Branding: Materialisation PART III Branding Postcolonialism 6 If You Don’t Brand Postcolonialism, Someone Else Will 7 Anti-capitalism as a Brand Narrative A Conclusion in Five Brand Acts Works Cited Index
Biography
Caroline Koegler is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany. Holding degrees in both Literary and Cultural Studies and Business Management, she has published on refugees and the politics of performing the urban, Caribbean literature, queer sexualities/positionalities, Judith Butler, postcolonial intertextuality, the financial crisis, and the market and ideology in Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming). She is co-editor of Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Intersections-conversations (forthcoming).
