Contested communities : communication, narration, imagination /

This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well as in postcolonial texts and media. Both in actual and in imagined communities, membership is constructed on an assumption of shared features - be it...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muehleisen, Susanne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 190.
ASNEL papers ; 21.
Temas:
Communities.
Civilization, Modern.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and culture.
Group identity.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Music and language.
Postcolonialism and music.
Social Identification
Communauté.
Sociolinguistique.
Langage et culture.
Identité collective.
Langage et langues > Aspect politique.
Postcolonialisme.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Musique et langage.
Postcolonialisme et musique.
sociolinguistics.
group identity.
postcolonialism.
Communities
Civilization, Modern
Group identity
Language and culture
Language and languages > Political aspects
Music and language
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism and music
Postcolonialism in literature
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • I. ON COMMUNITY
  • Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion
  • Community and the Common
  • II. COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY
  • The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective
  • Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century
  • Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities
  • Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Communityâ#x80;#x99;Africa is not a Gameâ#x80;#x99;: Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online
  • The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How?
  • III. NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION
  • Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India
  • Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandyâ#x80;#x99;s Soucouyant
  • Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the â#x80;#x98;Newâ#x80;#x99; South Africa
  • Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimaraâ#x80;#x99;s Follow the Rabbit-Proof FenceA â#x80;#x98;furry subjunctive caseâ#x80;#x99; of Empathy: Humanâ#x80;#x93;Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism
  • Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melvilleâ#x80;#x99;s Short Story â#x80;#x9C;Eat Labba and Drink Creek Waterâ#x80;#x9D;
  • IV. LANGUAGE, STYLE, AND BELONGING IN MUSIC CULTURES
  • Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón
  • Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in UgandaV. COUNTER-ARGUMENT
  • Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation
  • At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooperâ#x80;#x99;s Keynote Lecture â#x80;#x9C;Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translationâ#x80;#x9D;
  • Notes on Contributors

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