Popular Postcolonialisms

Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvNadia Atia,Kate Houlden,UK) Atia, Nadia (Queen Mary, University of London,UK) Houlden, Kate (Anglia Ruskin University

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Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and whether they can be employed by those advocating for change. It considers a range of fiction, film, and non-hegemonic cultural forms, engaging with topics such as environmental change, language activism, and cultural imperialism alongside analysis of figures like Tarzan and Frankenstein. Building on the work of cultural theorists, it asks whether the popular is actually where elite conceptions of the world may best be challenged. It also addresses middlebrow cultural production, which has tended to be seen as antithetical to radical traditions, asking whether this might, in fact, form an unlikely realm from which to question, critique, or challenge colonial tropes. Examining the ways in which the imprint of colonial history is in evidence (interrogated, mythologized or sublimated) within popular cultural production, this book raises a series of speculative questions exploring the interrelation of the popular and the postcolonial.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Antal sidor276
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367666149

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionNADIA ATIA AND KATE HOULDENPART IThe Radical Popular1 ‘Welcome to The University of Brixton’: BBC Radio and the West Indian EverydayRACHAEL GILMOUR2 FUTURE HISTORIES – an Activist Practice of ArchivingALDA TERRACCIANO3 Sequential Art in the Age of Postcolonial Production: Comics Collectives in Israel and South AfricaCHARLOTTA SALMIPART IIThe Middlebrow4 Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie’s Life and Work in the Middle EastNADIA ATIA5 ‘Junior Romantic Anthropologist Bore’: Colin MacInnes’s Critical Adventures in Post-war Multiracial BritainALICE FERREBE6 Tarzan the Ape Man: Screening ‘the subordination of women, nature and colonies’ in the 1930sCHRIS CAMPBELLPART IIICommodification7 Subcultural Fiction and the Market for MulticulturalismSARAH ILOTT8 Everything Must Go: Popularity and the Postcolonial NovelSAM GOODMAN9 Consuming Post-millennial Indian Chick Lit: Visuality and the Popular in Post-millennial IndiaE. DAWSON VARUGHESEPART IVTechnology10 Monster Mines and Pipelines: Frankenstein Figures of Tar Sands Technology in Canadian Popular CultureMARK A. MCCUTCHEON11 African or Virtual, Popular or Poetry: The Spoken Word Platform Word N Sound SeriesRICARDA DE HAAS12 The Postcolonial Geek and Popular Culture in a Global EraWENDY KNEPPERIndex