1st Edition
Deconstructing Europe Postcolonial Perspectives
Introduction: In the Name of Europe Sandra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Bolette Blaagaard, City University London, UK
Part I: Outbound: Geographical Margins, Historical Cores
1. Negotiating White Icelandic Identity: Multicultural and Colonial Identity Formations Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland
2. Asylum seekers as Austria’s Other: The re-emergence of Austria’s colonial past in a state-of-exception Brigitte Hipfl and Daniela Gronold, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
3. Spelling out exclusion in Southern Italy Claudia Buonaiuto and Marie-Hélène Laforest, University of Naples, Italy
4. Whose freedom? Whose memories?: Commemorating Danish colonialism in St Croix Bolette B. Blaagaard, City University London, UK
Part II: Deconstructing Europe: Conviviality and Invisibility
5. Europe in Motion: Migrant cinema and the politics of encounter Sandra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
6. Multiculturalism in a Selection of English and Spanish Fiction and Artworks L. López-Ropero, University of Alicante, Spain, and A. Moreno-Álvarez, University of Oviedo, Spain
7. Adrift on the Black Mediterranean Diaspora: African Migrant Writing in Spain Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Complutense University Madrid, Spain
8. "Rented spaces": Italian postcolonial literature Manuela Coppola, University of Calabria, Italy
9. "Dubbing di Diaspora": Gender and Reggae Music inna Babylon Sonia Sabelli, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Coda: Workings of whiteness: Interview with Vron Ware Conducted by Bolette B. Blaagaard, City University London, UK
Biography
Sandra Ponzanesi is Associate Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Critique in the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Gender Programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Among her publications are Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (2004), Migrant Cartographies (2005) and Postcolonial Cinema Studies (2011).
Bolette B. Blaagaard is Research fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London, UK. She has published articles and contributed to edited volumes on issues of Nordic colonialism and whiteness in the Nordic region as well as the ethics of journalistic practices, objectivity and freedom of speech.
Deconstructing Europe
is a truly cross disciplinary anthology which takes up an important debate about the future development of Europe as a multicultural project - Paulina Gasior, in the journal Postcolonial Europe
