Postcolonial Justice.
Bartels, Anke.
Postcolonial Justice. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (406 pages) - Cross/Cultures Series ; v.191 . - Cross/Cultures Series .
Intro -- Postcolonial Justice -- Copyright -- Contents -- Postcolonial Justice: An Introduction -- I. DECOLONIZING REGIMES OF KNOWLEDGE -- Postcolonial Injustice: Rationality, Knowledge, and Law in the Face of Multiple Epistemologies and Ontologies: A Spatial Performative Approach -- Epistemic Injustice: African Knowledge and Scholarship in the Global Context -- Shakespeare in Dantewada: Rescuing Postcolonialism Through Pedagogical Reformulations and Academic Activism -- Postcolonial Orientalism: A Study of the Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric of Middle Eastern Intellectuals in Diaspora -- II. LITERARY TRIALS OF JUSTICE -- Poetic Justice? Christopher Okigbo, Dedan Kimathi, and Robert Mugabe on Literary Trial -- "The White Man's Justice": A New Reading of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet (1937) -- The Poetics of Justice in Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir: Narrative Construction and Reader Response -- HeLa and The Help: Justice and African-American Women in White Women's Narratives -- III. RE/VISIONS OF GENDERED VIOLENCE -- A Darker Shade of Justice: Violence, Liberation, and Afrofuturist Fantasy in Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death -- An Endless Game: Neocolonial Injustice in Zadie Smith's The Embassy of Cambodia -- Slavery and Resilience in Caryl Phillips's Novel Cambridge -- IV. (POST)IMPERIAL ORDERS OF TRAVEL AND SPACE -- Justice and the Company: Economic Imperatives in the Journal of Jan Van Riebeeck (1652-62) -- The Speed of Decolonization: Travel, Modernization, and the 1955 Bandung Conference -- De-Cloaking Invisibility: Remembering Colonial South-West Africa -- V. JUSTICE WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE LAW -- "It's All About the Children": Child Asylum-Seekers and the Politics of Innocence in Australia -- Aspirin or Amplifier? Reconciliation, Justice, and the Performance of National Identity in Canada. "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 -- Notes on the Contributors and Editors -- Index.
Postcolonial Justice addresses a crucial issue in current postcolonial theory: the question of how to reconcile an ethics of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice.
9789004335196
Postcolonialism in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.P555 P678 2017
809.93358
Postcolonial Justice. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (406 pages) - Cross/Cultures Series ; v.191 . - Cross/Cultures Series .
Intro -- Postcolonial Justice -- Copyright -- Contents -- Postcolonial Justice: An Introduction -- I. DECOLONIZING REGIMES OF KNOWLEDGE -- Postcolonial Injustice: Rationality, Knowledge, and Law in the Face of Multiple Epistemologies and Ontologies: A Spatial Performative Approach -- Epistemic Injustice: African Knowledge and Scholarship in the Global Context -- Shakespeare in Dantewada: Rescuing Postcolonialism Through Pedagogical Reformulations and Academic Activism -- Postcolonial Orientalism: A Study of the Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric of Middle Eastern Intellectuals in Diaspora -- II. LITERARY TRIALS OF JUSTICE -- Poetic Justice? Christopher Okigbo, Dedan Kimathi, and Robert Mugabe on Literary Trial -- "The White Man's Justice": A New Reading of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet (1937) -- The Poetics of Justice in Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton: A Memoir: Narrative Construction and Reader Response -- HeLa and The Help: Justice and African-American Women in White Women's Narratives -- III. RE/VISIONS OF GENDERED VIOLENCE -- A Darker Shade of Justice: Violence, Liberation, and Afrofuturist Fantasy in Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death -- An Endless Game: Neocolonial Injustice in Zadie Smith's The Embassy of Cambodia -- Slavery and Resilience in Caryl Phillips's Novel Cambridge -- IV. (POST)IMPERIAL ORDERS OF TRAVEL AND SPACE -- Justice and the Company: Economic Imperatives in the Journal of Jan Van Riebeeck (1652-62) -- The Speed of Decolonization: Travel, Modernization, and the 1955 Bandung Conference -- De-Cloaking Invisibility: Remembering Colonial South-West Africa -- V. JUSTICE WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE LAW -- "It's All About the Children": Child Asylum-Seekers and the Politics of Innocence in Australia -- Aspirin or Amplifier? Reconciliation, Justice, and the Performance of National Identity in Canada. "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 -- Notes on the Contributors and Editors -- Index.
Postcolonial Justice addresses a crucial issue in current postcolonial theory: the question of how to reconcile an ethics of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice.
9789004335196
Postcolonialism in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.P555 P678 2017
809.93358