Cultures of decolonisation : transnational productions and practices, 1945-70 /: transnational productions and practices, 1945-70. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle.
• Editors: Craggs, Ruth; Wintle, Claire
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. I Decolonising metropolitan cultures? -- 1. Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order: The tragic voice of Richard Wright / Bill Schwarz -- 2. Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and New Commonwealth Internationalism / Damian Skinner -- 3. Henry Swanzy, Sartre's zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement / Rob Waters -- 4. Anxiety abroad: Austerity, abundance and race in post-war visual culture / David C. Wall -- pt. II Performing decolonisation -- 5. The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal Dutt's Invincible Vietnam / Abin Chakraborty -- 6. Cultural heritage as performance: Re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953 -- 70) / Michael Falser -- 7. I still don't have a country : The southern African settler diaspora after decolonisation / Jean Smith -- pt. III Decolonising expertise. Note continued: 8. Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana / Sophie Mew -- 9. More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana / Viviana D'Auria -- 10. Designing change: Coins and the creation of new national identities / Catherine Eagleton -- 11. What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonisation / Rachel Leow.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 325/.309045; Colonialism & Imperialism; Colonies -- Administration -- History; Decolonization -- History; Decolonization in literature; HISTORY -- Social History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784996864; 1784996866
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