Contested Communities : Communication, Narration, Imagination.
Mühleisen, Susanne.
Contested Communities : Communication, Narration, Imagination. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (361 pages) - Cross/Cultures Series ; v.190 . - Cross/Cultures Series .
Intro -- Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- I. ON COMMUNITY -- Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion -- Community and the Common -- II. COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY -- The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective -- Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century -- Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities -- Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community -- 'Africa is not a Game': Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online -- The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? -- III. NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION -- Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India -- Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy's Soucouyant -- Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the 'New' South Africa -- Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence -- A 'furry subjunctive case' of Empathy: Human-Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism -- Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville's Short Story "Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water" -- IV. LANGUAGE, STYLE, AND BELONGING IN MUSIC CULTURES -- Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón -- Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda -- V. COUNTER-ARGUMENT. Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation -- At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper's Keynote Lecture "Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation" -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Contested Communities explores the concept of community in postcolonial and diaspora contexts from an interdisciplinary (linguistics, literature, cultural studies) perspective.
9789004335288
Electronic books.
P40 .C668 2017
306.44
Contested Communities : Communication, Narration, Imagination. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (361 pages) - Cross/Cultures Series ; v.190 . - Cross/Cultures Series .
Intro -- Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- I. ON COMMUNITY -- Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion -- Community and the Common -- II. COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY -- The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective -- Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century -- Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities -- Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community -- 'Africa is not a Game': Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online -- The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? -- III. NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION -- Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India -- Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy's Soucouyant -- Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the 'New' South Africa -- Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence -- A 'furry subjunctive case' of Empathy: Human-Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism -- Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville's Short Story "Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water" -- IV. LANGUAGE, STYLE, AND BELONGING IN MUSIC CULTURES -- Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón -- Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda -- V. COUNTER-ARGUMENT. Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation -- At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper's Keynote Lecture "Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation" -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Contested Communities explores the concept of community in postcolonial and diaspora contexts from an interdisciplinary (linguistics, literature, cultural studies) perspective.
9789004335288
Electronic books.
P40 .C668 2017
306.44