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Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings: Cultures and Discourses on the Edge
Author: Salhia Ben-Messahel
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The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term postcolonial through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on colonialist discourses within a postmodern and globalised world. Identity-formation, cultural space, indigeneity, colonial perspectives and anti-colonial struggles suggest that former imperial (and often marginalized) coloniesterritories operate as decentring spaces, becoming dynamic postcolonial centres. The consequences of colonial history in postcolonial environments in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the South Pacific regions are being analysed. This shows that postcolonial subjectivities call for a reconceptualization of the nation as political agency. The essays interrogate the social and psychological effects of colonialism, the political subjugation and instrumentalisation of colonial pasts and the perception of the self through the colonizers eyes, that may still surface in discourse on identity and belonging. The postcolonial is then a floating concept in a global environment where some individuals still experience a neo-colonial condition while others dismiss the colonial past but may yet re-enact colonial practices. The volume shows that the extension of a colonial centre, often raised in postcolonial criticism, is synonymous with the decentring of identity, and that the re-conceptualization of a Diasporic condition initiates a new postcolonial moment based in translation and on a new modernity.**About the AuthorSalhia Ben-Messahel is an Associate Professor at Universite de Lille-SHS. She is the author of Mind the Country, Tim Wintons Fiction (2006) and Des Frontieres de lInterculturalite (2009). She has also published Globaletics and Radicant Aesthetics in Australian Fiction (2017). Vanessa Castejon is an Associate Professor at University Paris 13. She has explored Indigeneity and politics in Australia (Les Aborigenes et lapartheid politique australien, 2005), the representation of Indigenous people in Europe and transcultural history through Ego-histoire (Ngapartji, Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn Egohistoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia, 2014).
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The essays assembled in this volume explore the meaning of the term postcolonial through various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary fields of expertise. They address issues ranging from culture, politics and history to literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on colonialist discourses within a postmodern and globalised world. Identity-formation, cultural space, indigeneity, colonial perspectives and anti-colonial struggles suggest that former imperial (and often marginalized) coloniesterritories operate as decentring spaces, becoming dynamic postcolonial centres. The consequences of colonial history in postcolonial environments in the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the South Pacific regions are being analysed. This shows that postcolonial subjectivities call for a reconceptualization of the nation as political agency. The essays interrogate the social and psychological effects of colonialism, the political subjugation and instrumentalisation of colonial pasts and the perception of the self through the colonizers eyes, that may still surface in discourse on identity and belonging. The postcolonial is then a floating concept in a global environment where some individuals still experience a neo-colonial condition while others dismiss the colonial past but may yet re-enact colonial practices. The volume shows that the extension of a colonial centre, often raised in postcolonial criticism, is synonymous with the decentring of identity, and that the re-conceptualization of a Diasporic condition initiates a new postcolonial moment based in translation and on a new modernity.**About the AuthorSalhia Ben-Messahel is an Associate Professor at Universite de Lille-SHS. She is the author of Mind the Country, Tim Wintons Fiction (2006) and Des Frontieres de lInterculturalite (2009). She has also published Globaletics and Radicant Aesthetics in Australian Fiction (2017). Vanessa Castejon is an Associate Professor at University Paris 13. She has explored Indigeneity and politics in Australia (Les Aborigenes et lapartheid politique australien, 2005), the representation of Indigenous people in Europe and transcultural history through Ego-histoire (Ngapartji, Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn Egohistoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia, 2014).
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