Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds : Toward Revised Histories.

Intro -- Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds: Toward Revised Histories -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CONCURRENCES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- What Reading for Concurrences Offers Postcolonial Studies -- Concurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories -- Travel Writing and the Representation of Concurrent Worlds: Caryl Phillips' The Atlantic Sound and Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland -- SECTION TWO: IN AND OUT OF THE ARCHIVES -- "Unhallowed Mysteries" in the Colonial Archive: Competing Epistemologies in North America -- Concurrent Domesticities in Letters from the Colonial Fringe -- The 'Lapland Giantess' in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition -- Oral Tradition and the Postcolonial Challenge: The Historiographical Autonomy of Non-Literate Societies -- Entangled Encounters, Land-Taking, and the Oral Archive: Notes from the Field -- Constructing Otherness in Swedish District Courts: Concurrent Distance-Making Performances During Courtroom Interaction -- SECTION THREE: READING FOR CONCURRENCES -- An African Woman Coming to Voice Through a Multimodal Artwork -- Asymmetrical Voices: A Concurrent Reading of Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not and Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight -- "A Voice Speaking For Me a Riddle": Postcolonial Voice and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat -- From Colonial Oppression to Social Utopia: The Decolonization of Norrland and Its Limits in the Swedish Historical Novel The Great Wrath (Den stora vreden) -- Can the Subaltern Speak Under Duress? Voice, Agency, and Corporal Discipline in Zero Dark Thirty -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.

Brydon, Forsgren, and Fur's edited collection, Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds, demonstrates the productivity of reading for concurrences in studying archives, voices, and history in colonial and postcolonial contexts. This multidisciplinary volume situates Nordic colonial practices within transworld contexts.

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