Postcolonial studies across the disciplines [22nd annual conference of ASNEL GNEL, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany, 2-4 June 2011

Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world (the USA, Jamaica, Haiti, and the wider Caribbean, West Africa, and the UK). Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted objects, patchwork sculpture, newspapers, films, popular music, and literature of different genres from the Caribbean, West and South Africa, India, and Britain. At the same time, they reflect on theoretical problems such as intertextuality, intermediality, and cultural exchange, and explore intersections - postcolonial literature and transatlantic history; postcolonial and African-American studies; postcolonial literary and cultural studies. The final section keys in with the overall aim of challenging established disciplinary modes of knowledge production: exploring schools and universities as locations of postcolonial studies. Teachers investigate the possibilities and limits of their respective institutions and probe new ways of engaging with postcolonial concerns. With its integrative, interdisciplinary focus, this collection addresses readers interested in understanding how colonization and globalization have influenced societies and cultures around the world. Contributors: Anja Bandau, Sabine Broeck, Sarah Fekadu, Matthias Galler, Janou Glencross, Jana Gohrisch, Ellen Grünkemeier, Jessica Hemmings, Jan Hüsgen, Johannes Salim Ismaiel-Wendt, Ursula Kluwick, Henning Marquardt, Dennis Mischke, Timo Müller, Mala Pandurang, Carl Plasa, Elinor Jane Pohl, Brigitte Reinwald, Steffen Runkel, Andrea Sand, Cecile Sandten, Frank Schulze-Engler, Melanie Ulz, Reinhold Wandel, Tim Watson Introduction : postcolonial studies across the disciplines -- Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier Interdisciplinary reflections -- Postcolonial studies and Atlantic studies : interdisciplinary reflections on slavery and empire -- Tim Watson Postcolonial textiles : negotiating dialogue -- Jessica Hemmings Masking the White gaze : towards a postcolonial art history of masks -- Melanie Ulz From bush talk to nation language : language attitudes in Jamaica before and after independence -- Andrea Sand Track studies : popular music and postcolonial analysis -- Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt Postcolonial cultural studies : writing a Zulu woman back into history -- Ellen Grünkmeier Interdisciplinary Atlantic studies -- Postcolonial pursuits in African American studies : the later poems of Claude McKay -- Timo Müller "Mainly storytelling and play-acting" : theatricality and the Middle Passage in Barry Unsworth's Sacred hunger -- Carl Plasa Negotiating family models in Jamaican literature : class, race, and religion -- Henning Marquardt Transatlantic representations of the revolution in Saint-Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century and the Haitian turn -- Anja Bandau Writing off-centre : global imagination and modernism in the short fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey -- Sarah Fekadu Emancipation and protest : Moravian mission and the labour strike in St. Kitts -- Jan Hüsgen The perspectives of African elites on slavery and abolition on the Gold Coast (1860-1900) : newspapers as sources -- Steffen Runkel Fragile modernities : history and historiography in contemporary African fiction -- Frank Schulze-Engler Crossovers : historiography, fiction, criticism -- Historiographic Indian English fiction : Indira Ghandi's emergency rule in Midnight's Children, The great Indian novel, and A fine balance -- Matthias Galler Kaliyattam (The play of God) by Jayaraj : polymorphous and postcolonial poetics in an Indian Othello adaptation -- Cecile Sandten Othering otherness : Stephen Muecke's fictocriticism and the cosmopolitan vision -- Dennis Mischke Postcolonial studies in research and teaching -- the (inter)disciplinarity of postcolonial research -- Ursula Kluwick Lessons for a-disciplinarity : some notes on what happens to an Americanist when she takes slavery seriously -- Sabine Broeck Postcolonial studies as a discipline : an external perspective on administrative headaches -- Janou Glencross On the challenge of de-provincializing the university classroom : teaching African history from a postcolonial perspective -- Brigitte Reinwald Studying Anglophone literatures and cultures in a world of globalized modernity : notes on the "Frankfurt experience" -- Frank Schulze-Engler Postcolonial readings in German secondary education -- Elinor Jane Pohl Cross-cultural pedagogical practices : understanding the German context -- Mala Pandurang Teaching India in the German EFL classroom : issues and problems -- Reinhold Wandel. "Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world. Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted objects, patchwork sculpture, newspapers, films, popular music, and literature of different genres from the Caribbean, West and South Africa, India, and Britain. The also reflect on theoretical problems such as intertextuality and explore intersections - postcolonial literature and transatlantic history; postcolonial and African-American studies; postcolonial literary and cultural studies."--Source inconnue