Contested Solidarities

Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

252 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume responds to the multiple forms of oppression and their manifold casualties in the Global South, without taking recourse to a preemptive normativity promising instant identification of victims and perpetrators. It explores critical, self-reflexive, and disenchanted rather than organic, blanket, or mesmerized forms of solidarity. It further investigates literature and culture beyond habitual victimological frameworks as sites of unruly, unexpected, and unpredictable agency. The edited collection of essays provides impressive examples of such work engaging with a wide array of narrative forms—from novels, short fiction, life writing, and poetry to performance, documentary, film, and museum exhibitions—cutting across an equally wide array of contexts ranging from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and India to Kenya, the Middle East, Poland, Sri Lanka, South Africa, the UK, the USA, and Zimbabwe.

• Reihe: Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000 Postkoloniale Literatur
• ISBN: 9783968223216
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2025
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Heidelberg University Publishing
• Herausgegeben von: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Frank Schulze-Engler, Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell