Cultures of decolonisation : transnational productions and practices, 1945-70 /
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| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016. |
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| Description: | xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in imperialism Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10512078 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Refraining cultures of decolonization
- Part I. Decolonising metropolitan cultures?
- 1. Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order: The tragic voice of Richard Wright
- 2. Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and 'New Commonwealth Internationalism'
- 3. Henry Swanzy, Sartre's zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement
- 4. Anxiety abroad: Austerity, abundance and race in post-war visual culture
- Part II. Performing decolonisation
- 5. The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal Dutt's Invincible Vietnam
- 6. Cultural heritage as performance: Re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953-70)
- 7. 'I still don't have a country': The southern African settler diaspora after decolonization
- Part III. Decolonising expertise
- 8. Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana
- 9. More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana
- 10. Designing change: Coins and the creation of new national identities
- 11. What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonization
- Index
