Images of Decolonization / Images De La Decolonisation
Year: 2013
Type: preprint
Abstract: This collected anthology of essays on the Images of Decolonization follows in the footsteps of an earlier SARI publication on Changing Images of India and Africa (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011). It approaches the idea of decolonization from the point of view of the politics of representation with articles on the gaze of colonial and postcolonial photographers, the fantasized images of indigenous women (Pocahontas in the USA and La Malinche in Mexico) and the image of the soldiers during the First World War in the illustrated French press. Decolonization in the African continent is explored through the iconic figure of the Ghanaian leader N'Krumah, the MAU MAU uprising in Kenya and literatures in the French language, especially in Mauritius and the Portuguese language, with a focus on Mia Couto in Mozambique. The discriminatory caste system in India and class struggles in Ireland -two countries which were marked by the story of partition at the end of empire -are interwoven through the films of Ritwik Ghatak and Ken Loach. Finally, Britain's unique democratic tradition is reviewed through the constitutional and institutional developments in contemporary Ireland.
Source: HAL
Language: French
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2610891847