1st Edition
Postcolonialism Cross-Examined Multidirectional Perspectives on Imperial and Colonial Pasts and the Neocolonial Present
Introduction: Postcolonialism Cross-Examined: Multidirectional Perspectives on Imperial and Colonial Pasts and the Neo-colonial Present Monika Albrecht Part 1: Post-Colonial Complexities 1. Humanism, Embodied Knowledge, and Postcolonial Theory John Noyes 2. Postcolonial Studies, Creolizations, and Migrations Françoise Lionnet 3. The Pre-Postcolonial and its Enduring Relevance: Afro-Asian Variations in Edwar al-Kharrat's Texts Hala Halim Part 2: Case Studies in Light of Unchanged Asymmetries 4. Accommodating "Syrien im Krieg": Matrices of Colonialism 1914-1917 Florian Krobb 5. Postcolonial Asymmetry: Coping with the Consequences of Genocide between Namibia and Germany" Reinhart Kößler 6. Postcolonial Theory as Post-Colonial Nationalism Dirk Uffelman 7. Colonial Lifestyle and Nostalgia: The Ottoman Belle Époque and the Project of Modernization in Greek Literature and Heritage TV Series Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos 8. The Postcolonial Condition, the Decolonial Option, and the Postsocialist Intervention Madina Tlostanova Part 3: Towards a Multidirectional Approach to the Postcolonial 9. Unthinking Postcolonialism? On the Necessity for a Reset Instead of a Step Forward Monika Albrecht 10. From Cuzco to Constantinople: Rethinking Postcolonialism Gregory Jusdanis 11. Afrasian Prisms of Postcolonial Memory: German Colonialism in East Africa and the Indian Ocean Universe in Contemporary Anglophone and German Literature Dirk Göttsche 12. The Colonizer's Day Off: Colonial Subjectivities in the Soviet-Era Baltics Epp Annus 13. Latvian Multiculturalism and Postcolonialism Benedikts Kalnacs Part 4: Yet Another Major Challenge 14. Narratives of the Anthropocene: from the Perspective of Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Gabriele Dürbeck
Biography
Monika Albrecht is Professor of literary and cultural studies (apl. Prof.) at the University of Vechta, Germany.
