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Contested communities : com...
This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well as in postcolonial texts and media. Both in actual and in imagined communities, membership is constructed on an assumption of shared features - be it common values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, professional group or joint interests and practices. But how is membership in such communities achieved, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms of community have developed in the wake of globalisation, translocation and digital media communication? Eighteen contributions by scholars in linguistics, literary and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory and trauma in processes of belonging or unbelonging in postcolonial contexts.
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monografia Rebiun22583516 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22583516 190509t20172017ne a b 001 0 eng d 9789004335264 9004335269 ULL0590903 ULL Contested communities communication, narration, imagination edited by Susanne Mühleisen. Leiden Brill Rodopi [2017] Leiden Leiden Brill Rodopi xlii, 319 p. illustrations (some color) 25 cm xlii, 319 p. Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English 0924-1426 volume 190 ASNEL papers volume 21 Includes bibliographical references and index. Índice de contenidos:On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion -- Community and the Common -- The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective -- Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century -- Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities -- Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community -- Africa is not a Game: Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online -- The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? -- Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India -- Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant -- Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the ‘New’ South Africa -- Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence -- A furry subjunctive case of Empathy: Human–Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism -- Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville’s Short Story “Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water -- Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón -- Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda -- Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation -- At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture “Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation” This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well as in postcolonial texts and media. Both in actual and in imagined communities, membership is constructed on an assumption of shared features - be it common values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, professional group or joint interests and practices. But how is membership in such communities achieved, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms of community have developed in the wake of globalisation, translocation and digital media communication? Eighteen contributions by scholars in linguistics, literary and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory and trauma in processes of belonging or unbelonging in postcolonial contexts. Sociolinguistics Language and culture Group identity Language and languages- Political aspects Postcolonialism Postcolonialism in literature Music and language Postcolonialism and music Group identity Language and culture Language and languages- Political aspects Music and language Postcolonialism Postcolonialism and music Postcolonialism in literature Sociolinguistics Muehleisen, Susanne editor Cross/cultures 190. ASNEL papers 21.