Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (365 pages)
Disciplina	325.3
Collana	Cross/Cultures
Soggetto topico	Postcolonialism
ISBN	90-04-33768-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material / Daria Tunca and Janet Wilson -- Introduction: Gateways and Walls, or the Power and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Metaphors / Daria Tunca and Janet Wilson -- Clothing the Borders: Dress as a Signifier in Colonial and Post-Colonial Space / Gareth Griffiths -- “As Rare as Rubies”: Did Salman Rushdie Invent Turkish American-Literature? / Elena Furlanetto -- The Bosphorus Syndrome / Gerhard Stilz -- Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh / Padmini Mongia -- The Concomitant Spaces of Territory and Writing: Crossing Cultural Divides / Marta Dvorák -- Towards an Australian Philosophy: Constructive Appropriation of Enlightenment Thinking in Murray Bail’s The Pages / Marie Herbillon -- Image-i-nation: Africa/nation, Identity, and the Nation(s) Within / Bronwyn Mills -- Refugees and Three Short Stories from Sri Lanka / Simran Chadha -- Gateway to the Unknowable: The Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo’s Bénarès / John C. Hawley -- Postcolonial Literature in the Time of World Literature / Deepika Marya -- “Die Mauer is no joke!”: The Berlin Wall in Cilla McQueen’s Berlin Diary and in the Works of Kapka Kassabova / Claudia Duppé -- The Wall as Signifier in Ivan Vladislavic’s Works / Carmen Concilio -- Enclosed: Nature. Carol Shields’ Textual Mazes / Vera Alexander -- An Ethics of Mourning: Loss and Transnational Dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh / Golnar Nabizadeh -- The Mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street / Elisabeth Bekers -- Desexing the Crone: Intentional Invisibility as Postcolonial Retaliation in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked Old Woman and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices / Devon Campbell–Hall -- The Burden of Possessions: A Postcolonial Reading of Letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi / M.J. Daymond -- Gendered Gateways: Australian Surfing and the Construction of Masculinities in Tim Winton’s Breath / Sissy Helff -- Notes on Contributors / Daria Tunca and Janet Wilson -- Index / Daria Tunca and Janet Wilson.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910798941603321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (254 p.)
Disciplina	910/.01
Altri autori (Persone)	BluntAlison McEwanCheryl
Collana	Writing past colonialism
Soggetto topico	Geography - Philosophy Postcolonialism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-29871-9 9786611298715 1-84714-176-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: POSTCOLONIAL KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS; PART II: URBAN ORDER, CITIZENSHIP AND SPECTACLE; PART III: HOME, NATION AND IDENTITY; Notes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451185003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina	306.44
Altri autori (Persone)	AnchimbeEric A MfortehStephen A
Collana	Contributions to the sociology of language
Soggetto topico	Sociolinguistics Postcolonialism Multilingual persons - Social conditions Anthropological linguistics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-43044-4 9786613430441 3-11-026069-7
Classificazione	EC 1878
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Preface / Anchimbe, Eric A. / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations / Anchimbe, Eric A. -- Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language -- Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces / Meierkord, Christiane -- Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana / Ellece, Sibonile Edith -- Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity / Anchimbe, Eric A. -- Part II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics -- Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in Mozambique / Firmino, Gregório -- Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda / Ssempuuma, Jude -- Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography -- Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India / Israel, Hephzibah -- Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches / Odidiomo, Folorunso -- Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography / Uchechukwu, Chinedu -- Part IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages -- Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Li, David C. S. -- Chapter 12. Lamnso' English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English / Sala, Bonaventure M. -- Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration -- Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics / Hornscheidt, Antje Lann -- Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation's perspective / Märzhäuser, Christina -- Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) / Goglia, Francesco -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464259803321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (380 p.)
Disciplina	306.44
Altri autori (Persone)	AnchimbeEric A MfortehStephen A
Collana	Contributions to the sociology of language
Soggetto topico	Sociolinguistics Postcolonialism Multilingual persons - Social conditions Anthropological linguistics
Soggetto non controllato	African Studies Language Contact Multilingualism Postcolonial Linguistics Social Anthropology Sociolinguistics
ISBN	1-283-43044-4 9786613430441 3-11-026069-7
Classificazione	EC 1878
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Preface / Anchimbe, Eric A. / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations / Anchimbe, Eric A. -- Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language -- Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces / Meierkord, Christiane -- Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana / Ellece, Sibonile Edith -- Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity / Anchimbe, Eric A. -- Part II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics -- Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in Mozambique / Firmino, Gregório -- Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda / Ssempuuma, Jude -- Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography -- Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India / Israel, Hephzibah -- Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches / Odidiomo, Folorunso -- Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography / Uchechukwu, Chinedu -- Part IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages -- Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Li, David C. S. -- Chapter 12. Lamnso' English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English / Sala, Bonaventure M. -- Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration -- Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics / Hornscheidt, Antje Lann -- Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation's perspective / Märzhäuser, Christina -- Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) / Goglia, Francesco -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser / Mforteh, Stephen A. -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910818246003321

Autore	Gunning Dave
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina	820.9358
Collana	Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
Soggetto topico	Multiculturalism in literature Postcolonialism in literature Postcolonialism
ISBN	0-7486-8980-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Title Page""; ""Imprint""; ""Contents""; ""Series Preface""; ""Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Finding a Voice""; ""2 The Need to Belong""; ""3 Coming of Age, Coming into Difference""; ""4 Communities, Values, Transgressions""; ""5 War Zones""; ""6 Challenging Histories""; ""Conclusion""; ""Student Resources""; ""Index""
Altri titoli varianti	Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : Postcolonial Literature
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910790787403321