Table Of ContentIdeology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
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Cross/Cultures
Readings in Post/Colonial
Literatures and Cultures in English
Edited by
Bénédicte Ledent
Delphine Munos
Co-founding editors
†Hena Maes-Jelinek
Gordon Collier
†Geoffrey Davis
volume 213
asnel/GAPS Papers
asnel Papers appear under the auspices of the
Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien (gaps)
Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
Cecile Sandten GAPS President
Chemnitz University of Technology
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Ideology in Postcolonial
Texts and Contexts
Edited by
Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Stein
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts—an Introduction 1
Katja Sarkowsky and Mark U. Stein
part 1
Postcolonialism and Ideology
1 Ideologiekritik—a Critique 15
Michael Freeden
2 “A Crude, Empty, Fragile Shell?”—Postcolonial Consciousness in an Era
of Global Capitalism 30
Laura Chrisman
3 The Market as a Dimension of Practice—Commodification, Ideology,
and Postcolonial Studies 43
Caroline Koegler
part 2
Ideology in Postcolonial Contexts
4 Haggling and Postcolonial Phonological Constructs in Nigeria 59
Taiwo Soneye
5 Standard Language Ideology Revisited—the Case of Newscasters in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 86
Eva Canan Hänsel
6 Imagining Pasts, Writing Lives—Familial Narratives, Memory, and the
‘Ideological I’ in Imbi Paju’s Memories Denied 106
Andreas Athanasiades
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7 Promoting the Exotic?—the Ideological Mechanisms of Literary
Prizes 127
Simon Rosenberg
part 3
Continuities, Complications, Critique
8 Reflections of Lusáni Cissé—Imperial Images and Sentient
Critique 147
Lars Eckstein
9 The Ambivalence of the Veil in Contemporary British Culture 162
Ana Sobral
10 Crime and the Censor—the Production and Reception of Crime Fiction
in Apartheid and Post-apartheid South Africa 182
Elizabeth le Roux
11 National Allegories in the Age of Globalization—Prologue to an
Analysis of Contemporary Canadian Young Adult Fiction 204
Mavis Reimer
12 Bone to Bone, Spirit to Spirit—Sovereign Matriarchy, Asian/Indigenous
Relations, and the Work of Directed Re-membering 223
Larissa Lai
Index 259
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Figures
4.1 “Now” in the phonology of haggling in Nigeria 66
4.2 Nigerians’ intonation of now as a plea or an appeal (fall-rise-↖↗) 66
4.3 British intonation of now (Falling tune╲) 66
4.4 Better in Nigerian Pidgin Accent (Not necessarily comparative) “You
no be better man” means you are not a good man 69
4.5 Is this blue or black? (Text 11) 71
4.6 You are putting it on scale? (Text 2) 71
5.1 Rates of realizations of prototypical American variants 93
5.2 Rates of monophthong realizations of the vowel in words of the goat
and face sets as well as rates of word-initial voiced TH stopping 96
5.3 Rates of back and rounded realizations of the vowel in words of the
strut and nurse sets as well as rates of the realization of word-final
(-ing) as [ɪn] 96
7.1 Standard procedure of the Booker Prize 134
8.1 Lusáni Cissé, 1916, digital archive of the Frobenius Institute 150
8.2 and 8.3 Lusáni Cissé, 1916, analogue print, in exhibition catalogue Gefangene
Bilder 152
8.4 and 8.5 Lusáni Cissé, 1918, in Josef Weninger, Morphologisch-anthropologische
Studie, Tafel xxxviii 154
8.6 Detail of fig. 8.2, reflection in the iris of Lusáni Cissé, 1916 158
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Tables
5.1 Background information on the newscasters 90
5.2 Overview of the variables analyzed and their American and Caribbean variants
as well as alternative variants 91
5.3 Mean percentages of realization of American variants 93
5.4 Mean percentages of realization of Caribbean variants 95
7.1 Properties of the three most popular British book prizes 131
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Notes on Contributors
Andreas Athanasiades
is Adjunct Lecturer in English at the University of Cyprus. He has published
book chapters with various colleagues as well as articles in the Journal of Post-
colonial Studies, Auto/Fiction, the Journal of Mediterranean Studies and Indi@
Logs among others, on a range of topics such as desire, sexuality, memory and
postmemory, life writing and trauma, Islamic fundamentalism, and postcolo-
nial identity in Hanif Kureishi’s work. He is currently working as a contributor
in Brian Bergen-Aurand and Andrew Grossman’s upcoming Encyclopaedia of
Queer Cinema.
Laura Chrisman
is Nancy K. Ketcham Endowed Chair of English at the University of Washing-
ton, where she teaches African, black diaspora, and postcolonial studies, as
well as modern literatures in English. Her publications include Postcolonial
Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism
(Manchester UP, 2003) and Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperi-
alism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner and Plaatje (Oxford
UP, 2000). Edited and co-edited publications include “The Rendez-Vous of Con-
quest”: Rethinking Race and Nation (Lawrence and Wishart, 2001); Postcolonial
Theory and Criticism. Essays and Studies, volume 52, 2000; (with Benita Parry);
Transcending Traditions: Afro-American, African Diaspora and African Studies
(Special issue of The Black Scholar, 2000, with Farah Griffin and Tukufu Zu-
beri); Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Harvester, 1993,
with Patrick Williams). She is currently preparing a book on transnational rela-
tions between black South Africa and black America in the late 19th- and early
20th- centuries.
Lars Eckstein
is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Pots-
dam. He is the author of The Making of Tupaia’s Map, with Anja Schwarz (jph,
2019), Postcolonial Literatures in English, with Anke Bartels, Dirk Wiemann and
Nicole Waller (Metzler, 2019), Reading Song Lyrics (Brill, 2010), and Re-Member-
ing the Black Atlantic (Brill, 2006). Among his edited works are Remembering
German-Australian Colonial Entanglements, with Andrew Hurley (Routledge,
2020), Postcolonial Justice, with Anke Bartels, Dirk Wiemann and Nicole Waller
(Brill, 2017), and Postcolonial Piracy, with Anja Schwarz (Bloomsbury, 2014). He
is co-spokesperson of the rtg minor cosmopolitanisms.
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x Notes on Contributors
Michael Freeden
is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford. His books include The
New Liberalism (1978), Ideologies and Political Theory (1996), The Political The-
ory of Political Thinking (2013) (all Oxford University Press), Conceptual His-
tory in the European Space (co-edited with W. Steinmetz and J. Fernández-Se-
bastián, Berghahn, 2017), and In Search of European Liberalisms (co-edited with
J. Fernández-Sebastián and J. Leonhard, Berghahn, 2019). He is the founder-ed-
itor of the Journal of Political Ideologies. He has been awarded the Sir Isaiah
Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political
Studies Association, and the Medal for Science, Institute of Advanced Studies,
Bologna University.
Eva Canan Hänsel
is a research assistant at the chair of variation linguistics in the English Depart-
ment at wwu Muenster, where she earned a B.A. and an M.Ed. in English and
Spanish. Currently, she is working on a PhD thesis on English in secondary and
tertiary educational institutions in Grenada. Her research interests include va-
rieties of English with a focus on Caribbean Englishes, English in education
and news media, as well as language attitudes.
Caroline Koegler
is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at wwu Muen-
ster. She is author of Critical Branding. Postcolonial Studies and the Market
(Routledge 2018) and, with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Deborah Nyangulu and
Mark Stein, co-editor of Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Inter-
sections-Conversations (Routledge 2020). Other current publications include
“Queer Home-Making and Black Britain. Claiming, Ageing, Living” (Interven-
tions, 2020), “Follow the Hatred: The Production of Negative Feeling in Emily
Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)” (NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, forthcoming),
the special issue “Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains” (Journal of Postcolonial
Writing; with Marlena Tronicke, Pavan Malreddy, forthcoming), and Law, Lit-
erature and Citizenship (DeGruyter; co-edited with Jesper Reddig, Klaus Stier-
storfer, forthcoming).
Larissa Lai
is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the
University of Calgary, having been Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at
ubc (2007–2014). She is author of novels When Fox Is A Thousand (Press Gang,
1995; Arsenal Pulp, 2004), Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen, 2002) and The Tiger Flu
(Arsenal Pulp, 2019); poetry books Sybil Unrest (with Rita Wong; LINEbooks,
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