Graham Huggan explores how postcolonial works acquire value within their cultural context through a blend of literary-critical and sociological analysis. He delves into the mechanisms that shape the perception and significance of these works, highlighting the interplay between culture and value in the postcolonial landscape.
Graham Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this outstanding and sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world.
Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis. schovat popis
The book examines the significant impact of celebrity conservationists in raising awareness about environmental issues through television. Highlighting influential figures like David Attenborough and Steve Irwin, it explores how their efforts have brought urgent ecological crises to the forefront of public consciousness, emphasizing the intersection of fame and environmental advocacy.
Graham Huggan offers a revisionist perspective on Australian literature, integrating contemporary postcolonial criticism and critical race theory to provide new interpretations. This approach highlights the complexities of national literature, revealing how its writers and readers are interconnected with global narratives, while addressing the unsettling aspects of the literary landscape.
Das romantische Motiv der „Vergänglichkeit“ stellt zu Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts keine ausreichende Begründung mehr dar für die Tatsache, dass zahlreiche Minderheitengruppen und -kulturen dieser Welt und deren Sprachen ernsthaft gefährdet sind. Die Gefährdung von Sprache und Kultur ist sowohl ein gesellschaftliches Phänomen als auch ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsgebiet für Linguisten, Anthropologen, Biologen, Ökologen, Ökonomen, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftler und andere. Der Begriff „Gefährdung“ ist jedoch ebenso umstritten wie der Zustand, den er beschreibt. Die Abhandlungen in diesem Band sind ein Versuch, die vielfältigen Widersprüche, die dieser Begriff in sich vereint, zu beleuchten. Gleichzeitig untersuchen sie dessen Verwendung sowohl als Mittel einer Eindämmungsideologie zum Schutz der eigenen Kultur als auch als Motivation, einer tatsächlichen Gefahr des Verlustes entgegenzuwirken.
Racism Postcolonialism Europe turns the postcolonial critical gaze that had previously been most likely to train itself on regions other than Europe, and sometimes those perceived to be most culturally or geographically distant from Europe, back on Europe itself. The book argues that racism is alive and dangerously well in Europe, and examines this racism through the lens of postcolonial criticism. Postcolonial racism can be a racism of reaction, based on the perceived threat to traditional social and cultural identities; or a racism of (false) respect, based on mainstream liberals' desire to hold at arm's length 'different' cultures they are anxious not to offend. Most of all, postcolonial racism, at least within the contemporary European context, is a racism of surveillance, whereby 'foreigners' become 'aliens', 'protection' disguises 'preference', and 'cultural difference' slides into 'racial stigmatization' --all in the interests of representing the European people, which isa very different entity to the European population as a whole. Boasting a broad multidisciplinary approach and a range of distinguished contributors - including Philomena Essed, Michel Wieviorka and Griselda Pollock - Racism Postcolonialism Europe will be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, European history and literary and cultural studies.
