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Cultures of decolonisation : Transnational productions and practices, 1945-70 /
What were the distinctive cultures of decolonisation that emerged between 1945 and 1970? What can they tell us about the complexities of the 'end of empire' as a process? How did they reflect and influence the processes of dramatic geopolitical change wrought by the dismantling of European...
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cultures of decolonisation; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Reframing cultures of decolonisation: Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle; PART I Decolonising metropolitan cultures?; 1 Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order:The tragic voice of Richard Wright: Bill Schwarz; 2 Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and 'New Commonwealth Internationalism': Damian Skinner; 3 Henry Swanzy, Sartre's zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement: Rob Waters.
- 4 Anxiety abroad: Austerity, abundance and race in post-war visual culture: David C. WallPART II Performing decolonisation; 5 The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities inUtpal Dutt's Invincible Vietnam: Abin Chakraborty; 6 Cultural heritage as performance:Re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953-70): Michael Falser; 7 'I still don't have a country':The southern African settler diaspora after decolonisation: Jean Smith; PART III Decolonising expertise; 8 Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana: Sophie Mew.
- 9 More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana: Viviana d'Auria10 Designing change: Coins and the creation of new national identities: Catherine Eagleton; 11 What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahasadan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonisation: Rachel Leow; Index.