Commodifying (post)colonialism : othering, reification, commodification and the new literatures and cultures in English /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 262 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ; 127 ASNEL papers ; 16 Cross/cultures ; 127. ASNEL papers ; 16. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11234978 |
Table of Contents:
- Theory. Bordieu, capital, and the postcolonial marketplace / Jens Martin Gurr
- Fiction. "Savage" violence and the colonial body in Nathaniel Crouch's The English acquisitions in Guinea and East India (1708) and in Edward Cooke's A voyage to the South Sea (1712) / Oliver Lindner ; Saccharographies / Carl Plasa ; "The dark races stand still, the fair progress" : Matthew Kneale's English Passengers and the intellectual commodification of colonial encounter in Tasmania / Wolfgang Funk ; Alice in Oz : a children's classic between imperial nostalgia and transcultural reinvention / Sissy Helff ; Think local sell global : magical realism, The whale rider, and the market / Lars Eckstein ; Dialogue within changing power-structures : commodification of black South African women's narratives by white women writers? / Ksenia Robbe ; Phantasmagorical representations of postcolonial cityscapes in Salman Rushdie's Fury (2002) and Suketu Mehta's Maximum city : Bombay lost and found (2004) / Cecile Sandten
- Drama. Amiri Baraka's revisiting of slavery : memory, historical amnesia, and commodification / Samy Azouz ; Moving beyond Irish (post)colonialism by commodifying (post)colonial stage Irishness : Martin McDonagh's plays as global commodities / Katharina Rennhak
- Film and pop music. The moveable frontier : John Ford and Howard Hawks at home and in Africa / Stephan Laqué ; "We are the ones you do not see" : the need for a change of focus in filming black Britain / Birte Heidemann ; Exoticism and authenticity in contemporary British-Asian popular culture : the commodification of difference in Bride & prejudice and Apache Indian's music / Sabine Nunius ; Salman Rushdie superstar : the making of postcolonial literary stardom / Ana Cristina Mendes ; Celebrity conservationism, postcolonialism, and the commodity form / Graham Huggan.