Overview
- Considers which concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies and activist concerns are key to interrogating our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century
- Brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars of different generations to highlight interactions between individual and community-based action on the one hand, and the academy on the other
- Analyzes a wide range of cultural objects – from artworks and texts to immigration policies and public monuments – as objects of postcolonial critique and foci for scholarly activism
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“Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. The
book points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all.”
— Robert J.C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA
“Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, this book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake.”
— Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University College London, UK
This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitlyintergenerational, future-oriented terms.
book points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all.”
— Robert J.C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA
“Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, this book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake.”
— Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University College London, UK
This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitlyintergenerational, future-oriented terms.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“The succession of chapters and nexus of topics reflects the thoughtful and sensitive editorial effort. … Reframing Postcolonial Studies is a collection of convincing and thoughtfully edited arguments and ideas … . This volume provides multiple frameworks for scholarship-based activism and activist scholarship in post- and decolonial interdisciplinarity.” (Nele Grosch and Anne Stellberger, Postcolonial Interventions, Vol. 7 (1), January, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
David D. Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reframing Postcolonial Studies
Book Subtitle: Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms
Editors: David D. Kim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52726-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52725-9Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52728-0Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52726-6Published: 30 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Memory Studies, Digital Humanities, Comparative Literature