Voice and Memory : Indigenous Imagination and Expression
Language: English
Published by Orient Blackswan, 2011
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Contents Acknowledgements IntroductionK K Chakravarty 1 Understanding Indigenous Struggles The Limitations of Postcolonial TheoryBonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua 2 Endangered Indigenous Traditions of the Urhobo People of the Niger DeltaGodini G Darah 3 From the Postcolonial to the Globalized Language Revitalization in AotearoaNew Zealand and EireIrelandMuiris Ó Laoire 4 Rewriting Columbus Coatlicue?s Dramatization of Mexican Indigenous HistoryChristiane Schlote 5 Contemporary Yoruba Funeral A Discursive Personal NarrativeF Odun Balogun 6 Multilingualism in Modern South African PoetryManfred Loimeier 7 Cultural Identity and Rewriting the Past Contemporary South African LiteraturesMonika Reif-Huelser 8 Gender Violence in Postcolonial Aboriginal Communities Indigenous and White PerceptionsSue Ryan-Fazilleau 9 The Place of the Folk Tale in a Changing SocietyHelen Oronga Aswani Mwanzi10 In Search of Wisdom Transformations in Indigenous and Postcolonial DiscoursesVera Alexander 11 The Ethnopoetics of Irular BalladsA Chellaperumal and Sujatha Vijayraghavan12 Gender and Empowerment The Folklore of GarhwalSatish C Aikant13 Ngugi?s Indigenous Language Novels Women and the National CauseJoseph McLaren 14 Colonial Narrative and Indigenous Consciousness Raja Rao?s Kanthapura and Ignazio Silone?s FontamaraStefano Mercanti15 A Green Postcolonial Reading of Kocharethi and Mother ForestTom Thomas 16 Carib Palimpsests in Derek Walcott?s Collected PoemsKerry-Jane Wallart17 Indigenous Hatred and Fear Edwidge Danticat?s The Dew BreakerFlorence Labaune-Demeule18 Vaacha Voice and Memory in the MuseumBrian Coates and Eileen Coates19 Indigenous Voices in Australian Universities Towards a Collaborative PedagogyJulian Silverman 20 Education in a Second Language Struggles and Achievements of Betta Kurumbar ChildrenJ Daniel Selvaraj 21 Mahasweta Devi and the Tribal A Creative DiscourseBodh Prakash 22 Narrating Tribal Entity Mavelimantam Kocharethi OoralikkudiAsha Susan Jacob 23 Reading Maracle?s Sundogs Indigenous Subalternity and ResistanceShaily Mudgal 24 Can the Bollywood Film Speak to the SubalternAjay Gehlawat 25 Sound in the Aboriginal Australian Films of Rolf de HeerBruno Starrs 26 Living and Learning in a New Language and Culture A Linguist?s ExperiencesAnnie Vinod WilsonVoice and Memory Indigenous Imagination and Expression is a companion volume to Indigeneity Culture and Representation The essays present a critical enquiry into the cultures and literatures of indigenous communities They deal with their stories of colonial experience their marginalization and their struggles to avert the decline of their socio-cultural status and the emergence of their voice in the respective national literature Rather than seeking succour from a human rights regime Aboriginal peoples have consistently looked for lessons of environmental balance and social regeneration in their own literature knowledge systems and cultural traditions The essays in this volume show how these groups have acknowledged internalized and adapted to their own idiom linguistic and cultural nuances and expressions left behind as a relic of colonial presence Further in their endeavour to analyze the reasons behind their alienation they have consistently been self critical holding the white colonists responsible for their current situation but recognizing and narrating instances of complicity of Aboriginal elders in the persecution of their women Running through the volume is the view that the indigenous people are agents rather than objects of change They have the capacity to classify codify and present their knowledge and perceive and evaluate changes in the environment The essays also highlight the rejection by Aboriginal groups of the prevailing view of their cultural heritage as a "social problem" at odds with the imperatives of contemporary existenceThis book is a celebration of indigenous cultures rooted in their physical and cultural environment rather than an archival repository or.…
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- Voice and Memory : Indigenous Imagination and Expression
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- Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty
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- Orient Blackswan
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- 2011
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- New
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- Soft cover
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- English
- ISBN 10
- 8125042229
- ISBN 13
- 9788125042228
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