The Rest Write Back - Discourse and Decolonization

A timely collection of essays examining the legacies and politics of knowledge production and the writing-back paradigm.

List of contents

Foreword: Whose Rest is Best? (Un)Learning Binaries from Subalternity 
Arjuna Parakrama 
Acknowledgements 
Notes on Contributors 

Introduction: The Rest and Decolonial Epistemologies 
Esmaeil Zeiny 

Part 1: Positioning New Paradigms
1 Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us? A Critique of Modern Thoughtlessness in Western and Resten Societies 
Dustin J. Byrd 
2 End or Continuation of World History: the European, Slavic and American World – A New Paradigm? 
Rudolf J. Siebert 
3 Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism 
Mladjo Ivanovic 

Part 2: Positioning Counter-discourses
4 Women Refashion Iran: Decolonizing the Rehistoricized Narratives 
Esmaeil Zeiny 
5 African Literature: Leadership, Plight of the Majority and Hope 
Masumi Hashimoto Odari and Ciarunji Chesaina 
6 Aesthetic Hospitality: Mustafa Saʾeed as Guest in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North 
Hiba Ghanem 
7 The Rest in the White West: After the Empire is Buried, Shadows of Your Black Memory Are Born 
JM. Persánch 
8 The Topography of Nostalgia: Imaginative Geographies and the Rise of Nationalism 
Andrew Ridgeway 

Index 

About the author

Esmaeil Zeiny, Ph.D. (2013), is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM). He has recently co-edited Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism (Brill, 2018, with Sanaz Fotouhi).

Summary

A timely collection of essays examining the legacies and politics of knowledge production and the writing-back paradigm.

Product details

• Assisted by: Esmaeil Zeiny (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2020
• EAN: 9781642591941
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-194-1
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Soziologie, Literaturtheorie, Sociology, Politik und Staat, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Politics / Current Events, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary theory