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... cultures of domination, Bright Lights, Gay Globality challenges popular interpretations of the “third world” queer as a necessarily radical figure. It puts into question the theories of alternative modernity that have dominated research on postcolonial cities, interrogates the idealization...

...On the postcolonial landscapes of contemporary settler states, place is guiding Indigenous peoples, settler-descended peoples, and nonhumans into a new dialogue, moving humanity toward an understanding of the world as a series of genealogical connections, each with its own relational worldviews...

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...Chapter 2 thickly describes the status and identity that is at the center of this study: the “artist” and its related social and professional mode of being, artistiya (artist-ness). It presents extended reflection on what it means to be an artist in Mali in an era of postcolonial...

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...Chapter 5 interrogates the idea of intellectual property through the shifting politics of culture in postcolonial Mali. Beginning with widespread anxieties about the social and economic value of the arts in an era of private markets and decentralized politics, it presents a local genealogy...

... culture Mali Music Ethics Afropolitanism African Studies Cultural Studies Postcolonial Studies Ethnomusicology Beginning in June 2012, international news reports about the crisis in the West African Sahel frequently gathered around a common theme: what anthropologist Paul Stoller called...

... film analysis and a multifaceted investigation of modern Korean cultural history, and finds aesthetic and political continuities across the divisions of postcoloniality, the Cold War, and postwar modernization. As above, Split Screen provides the first in-depth history of postwar...

...This chapter examines the novel Bone, penned by Chinese-American author Fae Myenne Ng. It reviews the text through the concept of melancholia, which has become paradigmatic in postcolonial and critical race studies, and allows a better understanding of racial labor exploitation...

...This chapter presents a theoretical framework of Creole indigeneity, arguing that the concept is a way of recovering the excess or remainder of history and identity that shapes both social formations in the postcolonial state and Caribbean intellectual production. It lays the groundwork...

...This chapter deals with the hermeneutic understanding of Cape Verdean postcolonial reality through popular music. It provides an analysis of the relationship between globalization, the world music scene, and Cape Verdean contemporary music, highlighting prominent world music icon Cesária Évora...

... of national subjectivity in a period of state crisis. On the other hand, melodramas reveal a more indefinite relationship among femininity, mobility, and the postcolonial nation, as represented in films such as Pakeezah and 27 Down. The chapter also analyzes Bollywood’s...

...This chapter describes the Indian railway during the postcolonial period, focusing on the implications of the colonial rhetoric of mobility and how the railway mapped the new colony. It examines the contradictions that emerge in the account of the railway as the “life-line” of India, and describes...

...This chapter concludes that “Indianness” circulates within poststructural, postcolonial, critical race, and queer theories as both sign and event. As a process of signification and exception, “Indianness” starts, stops, and reboots the colonialist discourses that spread along lines of flight...