Cultures of decolonisation: transnational productions and practices, 1945-70
Machine generated contents note: pt. 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...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2016
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| Series: | Studies in imperialism
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Autorenbiografie: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2016304046-b.html Verlag, Verlagsangaben: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2016304046-d.html Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2016304046-t.html Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=028681063&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle |
| Summary: | Machine generated contents note: pt. 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. Wall -- pt. II Performing decolonisation -- 5. The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal 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 -- pt. III Decolonising expertise Note continued: 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'Auria -- 10. Designing change: Coins and the creation of new national identities / Catherine Eagleton -- 11. What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonisation / Rachel Leow |
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| Item Description: | Im Vorwort: This edited collection arose from the conference "Cultures of decolonisation" which took place in May 2012 at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, Universitiy of London |
| ISBN: | 0719096529 9780719096525 |