Representation Matters: (Re)Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World ()

Introduction: Representation Matters / Anette Hoffmann And Esther Peeren — 1. Concepts Of Postcolonial Identity : Contingent Articulations. Alterity And Identities : The Paradoxes Of Authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity And Identity At Odds In Martinique: 1973 To 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West Between Culture(s) And Collective Identity : Notes For A Present Problematic / Nimrod Ben-cnaan ; Ubuntu, The Truth And Reconciliation Commission, And South African National Identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance Or Compliance? : The Problem Of Orientalism In Osman Hamdi’s Paintings / Gülru Çakmak — 2. Relational Histories. Romani Identity Formation And The Globalization Of Holocaust Discourse / Huub Van Baar ; Similarity And Difference : The Appearance Of Suffering At The Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly — 3. Rethinking Origins And Indigeneity. Resignifying Genesis, Identity, And Landscape : Routes Versus Roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes To Tabaré : Race, Space, And The Uruguayan Subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian Indigenous Identities : Reshaping The Terms Of Political Debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas — 4. Reinventing Tradition. Performative Constructions Of Female Identity At A Hindu Ritual : Some Thoughts On The Agentive Dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; We Are Like Fish That Were Reeled In : Peasant Understandings Of Modernity In Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, Absence, Loss : Chineseness In Post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja Van Wichelen ; Moving Identities : Mythology And Metaphor In André Brink’s Praying Mantis / Saskia Lourens. Editors, Anette Hoffmann And Esther Peeren. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.