Introduction: Gateways and walls or the powers and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors

Tunca, D. and Wilson, J. M. (2016) Introduction: Gateways and walls or the powers and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors. In: Tunca, D. and Wilson, J. M. (eds.) Postolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. ix-xviii.

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Abstract:

This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the ‘gateway’ and the ‘wall’ to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies. Some chapters foreground the modes of articulation between literal borders and emotional (dis)connections, while others examine how artefacts ranging from personal letters to clothes may be conceptualized as metaphorical ‘gateways’ and ‘walls’ that lead or, conversely, regulate access, to specific forms of cultural expression and knowledge. Following this line of metaphorical thought, the very discipline of postcolonial studies may be regarded as a field whose borders must be constantly redrawn, and whose paradigms need to be continually reshaped and rebuilt to remain relevant in the contemporary world – in other words, the discipline itself is one that is permanently ‘under construction’.

Subjects:

P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR9080 Postcolonial literature

Creators:

Tunca, D. and Wilson, J. M.

Editors:

Tunca, D. and Wilson, J. M.

Publisher:

Brill/Rodopi

Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:

University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing

Date:

21 November 2016

Date Type:

Publication

Page Range:

ix-xviii

Title of Book:

Postolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction

Series Name:

Cross/Cultures

Volume:

195

Place of Publication:

Leiden

Number of Pages:

347

Language:

English

ISBN:

9789004337671

Status:

Published / Disseminated

Refereed:

Yes

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References:

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture (London & New York: Routledge, 1994). Bugeja, Norbert. Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2012). Lakoff, George, & Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980). Vladislavić, Ivan, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked (London: Portobello, 2006). Wilson, Janet, & Daria Tunca, ed. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 51.1 (2015), issue on “Postcolonial Thresholds: Gateways and Walls.”