ASNEL/GAPS Papers 23

Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts reflects that critiques of ideological formations occur within intersecting social, political, and cultural configurations where each position is in itself ‘ideological’ – and subject to asymmetrical power relations. Postcolonialism has become an object of critique as ideology, but postcolonial studies’ highly diversified engagement with ideology remains a strong focus that exceeds Ideologiekritik. Fourteen contributors from North America, Africa, and Europe focus (I) on the complex relation between postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, and conceptualizations of ideology, (II) on ideological formations that manifest themselves in very specific postcolonial contexts, highlighting the potential continuities between colonial and postcolonial ideology, and (III) on further expanding and complicating the nexus of postcolonial ideology, from veiling as both ideological practice and individual resistance to home as ideological construct; from palimpsestic readings of colonial photography to aesthetics as ideology.

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

KATJA SARKOWSKY AND MARK U. STEIN: Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts– an Introduction

PART 1 POSTCOLONIALISM AND IDEOLOGY

MICHAEL FREEDEN: Ideologiekritik–a Critique

LAURA CHRISMAN: “A Crude, Empty, Fragile Shell?”–Postcolonial Consciousness in an Era of Global Capitalism

CAROLINE KOEGLER: The Market as a Dimension of Practice–Commodification, Ideology, and Postcolonial Studies

PART 2 IDEOLOGY IN POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXTS

TAIWO SONEYE: Haggling and Postcolonial Phonological Constructs in Nigeria

EVA CANAN HÄNSEL: Standard Language Ideology Revisited–the Case of Newscasters in St. Vincent and the Grenadines

ANDREAS ATHANASIADES: Imagining Pasts, Writing Lives–Familial Narratives, Memory, and the ‘Ideological I’ in Imbi Paju’s Memories Denied

SIMON ROSENBERG: Promoting the Exotic?–the Ideological Mechanisms of Literary Prizes

PART 3 Continuities, Complications, Critique

LARS ECKSTEIN: Refelctions of Lusáni Cissé–Imperial Images and Sentient Critique

ELIZABETH LE ROUX: Crime and the Censor–the Production and Reception of Crime Fiction in Apartheid and Post-apartheid South Africa

MAVIS REIMER: National Allegories in the Age of Globalization–Prologue to an Analysis of Contemporary Canadian Young Adult Fiction

LARISSA LAI: Bone to Bone, Spirit to Spirit–Sovereign Matriarchy, Asian/Indigenous Relations, and the Work of Directed Re-Membering

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