Tabla de Contenidos: “…The legacy of historical-critical discourse / Historical-critical approaches and the emancipation of women: unfulfilled promises and remaining possibilities / "Tandoori reindeer" and the limitations of historical criticism / Breaking the established scaffold: imagination as a resource in the development of Biblical interpretation / Postcolonialism and the practice of history / Rhetorical full-turn in Biblical interpretation and its relevance for feminist hermeneutics / Full turns and half turns: engaging the dialogue/dance between Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Vernon Robbins / "And they did so": Following orders given by Old Joshua…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : constellations, critical nationality, and literary cosmopolitics -- Articulating Adorno with postcolonial critique : Fanon, Said, Spivak -- "More English than English" : Kazuo Ishiguro's negation of national nostalgia -- "The possibilities of the new country we are making" : transnational fragments and national consciousness in Derek Walcott's writing -- "Not monological but multilogical" : gender, hybridity, and national narratives in Shirley Geok-Lin Lim's writing -- Ethnographic tactics and the cosmopolitical aesthetic in contemporary Malaysian fiction -- Conclusion : nation, narration, negation…”

“…In doing so, this study is not only a significant contribution to the field of global queer studies in which both women and Africa have been underrepresented, but a starting point to further theorize the relation between gender, kinship, and sexuality that is key to queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue: The Formative Impact of Childhood : Life Experiences in a Comparative Setting of Time and Space -- Part I Imperialism, Its Ideology and Practice of Racial Inequality -- 1 Colonialism and Racism -- 2 Alexis de Tocqueville on Class and Race -- Part II The Coolie Scandal on Sumatra's East Coast -- 3 Dutch Colonialism and Its Racist Impact -- 4 Coolie Labour and Colonial Capitalism in Asia -- 5 'A Crafty Lawyer of Shady Deals' -- Part III Civilization and Racism -- 6 Primitive Racism in a Colonial Setting -- 7 Colonial Development -- 8 Early Whistle-blowers on Belgian Colonialism -- Part IV Political Advocacy of the Multinational State -- 9 The Colour Bar as the Crux of Colonial Rule -- 10 The Religious Fervour of Ethical Politics -- 11 The Capitalist Imperative of Colonialism -- 12 The Denial of Freedom and Its Impact on Indonesia's Early Statecraft -- Part V Development Aid as the Postcolonial Codex of Globalized Capitalism -- 13 Spreading Dutch Welfarism in the Global South -- 14 Development Aid Abandoned, Mission Achieved -- 15 W.F. …”

“…"Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Becketts 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot"…”

“…Oxford studies in postcolonial literatures…”

“…Crisis, race, and nation-state in a postcolonial world…”

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