Experiences of freedom in postcolonial literatures and cultures / edited by Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
London : Routledge, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (385 p.)

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Summary note
Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in contemporary life.This volume offers culturally diverse contributions to the debate on freedom from the literatures and arts of the postcolonial world, exploring experiences that evoke, desire, imagine, and perform freedom across five continents and two centuries of history.Experiences of Freedom opens with an introductory philosophical essay by Achille Mbembe and is d
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • pt. 1. Resisting history and colonialism
  • pt. 2. The right to move and to belong
  • pt. 3. The right to (believe in) free futures
  • pt. 4. Imaginative freedom and critical engagement.
ISBN
  • 1-136-81172-9
  • 1-283-10397-4
  • 9786613103970
  • 1-136-81173-7
  • 0-203-82892-5
OCLC
  • 785777869
  • 727063879
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203828922
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