Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds

Diana Brydon FRSC (PhD ANU 1977), Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, teaches in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. She has published books and articles in Canadian and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Peter Forsgren (PhD 1992), Professor in Swedish and Comparative Literature, teaches in the Department of Film and Literature at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published books and articles in Swedish 20th century prose.Gunlög Fur (PhD University of Oklahoma 1993), Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Linnaeus University. Her research and publications focus on colonial cultural encounters, indigenous histories, gender, and entangled histories of Scandinavian immigrants and American Indians.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsSection One: Introduction to Concurrences in Theory and PracticeWhat Reading for Concurrences Offers Postcolonial Studies - DIANA BRYDON, PETER FORSGREN, AND GUNLÖG FURConcurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories - GUNLÖG FURTravel Writing and the Representation of Concurrent Worlds: Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound and Noo Saro–Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland - NICKLAS HÅLLÉNSection Two: In and Out of the Archives“Unhallowed Mysteries” in the Colonial Archive: Competing Epistemologies in North America - GESA MACKENTHUNConcurrent Domesticities in Letters from the Colonial Fringe - MARGARETA PETERSSONThe ‘Lapland Giantess’ in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition - LINDA ANDERSSON BURNETTOral Tradition and the Postcolonial Challenge: The Historiographical Autonomy of Non-Literate Societies - HANS HÄGERDALEntangled Encounters, Land-Taking, and the Oral Archive: Notes from the Field - KAREN V. HANSENConstructing Otherness in Swedish District Courts: Concurrent Distance-Making Performances During Courtroom Interaction - TORUN ELSRUDSection Three: Reading for ConcurrencesAn African Woman Coming to Voice Through a Multimodal Artwork - MARGARETA WALLIN WICTORINAsymmetrical 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 - ANNA GREEK“A voice speaking for me a riddle”: Postcolonial Voice and Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat - MARIA OLAUSSENFrom Colonial Oppression to Social Utopia: Decolonization of ‘Norrland’ and Its Limits in the Swedish Historical Novel Den stora vreden (The Great Wrath) - PETER FORSGRENCan the Subaltern Speak Under Duress? Voice, Agency, and Corporal Discipline in Zero Dark Thirty - JOHAN HÖGLUNDNotes on the ContributorsIndex