| Description |
279 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race, 1570-7253 ; no. 20 |
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Thamyris intersecting ; no. 20.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : representation matters / Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren -- 1. Concepts of postcolonial identity : contingent articulations. Alterity and identities: the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? The problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / Gulru Cakmak -- 2. Relational histories. Romani identity formation and the globalization of Holocaust discourse / Huub van Baar ; Similarity and difference : the appearance of suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly -- 3. Rethinking origins and indigeneity. Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabare : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. Reinventing tradition. Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in Andre Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Group identity.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity politics.
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Representation (Philosophy)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hoffmann, Anette.
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Peeren, Esther.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789042028456 |
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9042028459 |
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9789042028463 (electronic bk.) |
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9042028467 (electronic bk.) |
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