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Fighting words : fifteen books that shaped the postcolonial world
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- Creator
- edited by Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard and Benjamin Mountford
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 279 pages : illustrations, facsimile ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781906165550, 1906165556, 9781787970745, 9781787070752, 9781787070769
- OCLC
- ocn990183100
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- From Communism to postcapitalism : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist manifesto (1848) / Dominic Davies -- Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South (1892) : Black feminism and human rights / Imaobong Umoren -- Emily Hobhouse, The brunt of the war and where it fell / Christina Twomey -- W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk (1903) : of the veil and the colour-line, of double-consciousness and second-sight / Reiland Rabaka -- Wake up, India : a plea for social reform (1913) : Annie Besant's anti-colonial networks / Priyasha Mukhopadhyay -- Sol Plaatje's Native life in South Africa (1916) : the politics of belonging / Janet Remmington -- Making freedom : Jawaharlal Nehru's An autobiography (1936) and The discovery of India (1946) / Elleke Boehmer -- Joseph B. Danquah's The Akan doctrine of God (1944) : anticolonial fragments? / Rouven Kunstmann -- The resistant forces of myth : Miguel Ángel Asturias's Men of maize (1949) / Johanna Richter -- The hip-hop legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop's Nations nègres et culture (1954) / Ruth Bush -- Culture in transition : Rajat Neogy's Transition (1961-8) and the decolonization of African literature / Asha Rogers -- Frantz Fanon's The wretched of the earth (1961) : the spectre of the third world project / John Narayan -- The match is in the spinifex : Frank Hardy, The unlucky Australians (1968) / Benjamin Mountford -- Provenance, identification and confession in Sally Morgan's My place (1987) / Michael R. Griffiths -- Freedom fighter/postcolonial saint : the symbolic legacy of Nelson Mandela's Long walk to freedom (1994) / Erica Lombard
Subjects
- Books and reading -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Books and reading -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century.
- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century.
- Postcolonialism -- Historiography.
- Imperialism -- Historiography.
- Books -- History -- 20th century.
- Books -- History -- 19th century.