{"product_id":"anticolonial-form-literary-journals-at-the-end-of-empire-hardcover","title":"Anticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Reza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnticolonial Form: Literary Journals at the End of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the relationship between culture and politics in two journals published in Europe by African writers: \u003cem\u003ePrésence Africaine\u003c\/em\u003e, launched in Paris in 1947, and \u003cem\u003eMensagem\u003c\/em\u003e, published between 1948 and 1964 in Lisbon. Grounded in extensive archival work, the book argues for a comparative and transnational approach to postcolonial literary studies, for the significance of the literary journal as a key form in the development of African writing in French, Portuguese, and English, and for a historically and geographically contingent understanding of the relationships between literature, culture, and politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book takes up the idea of \u003cem\u003earticulation \u003c\/em\u003e(drawn from the cultural theorist Stuart Hall) to bring forward the contingent and fugitive connections that networks of literary journals fostered between francophone, anglophone, and lusophone writers in the conjuncture of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that comparison as a praxis and a method was central to the anticolonial charge of those journals, on whose pages we see an iterative back and forth between writing from and about different parts of the colonial world, a recursive effort to establish how ideas and analyses developed in one part of the colonial world could travel, and be adopted and adapted in others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReza figures this back and forth between sameness and difference as a comparative practice and argues that different journals formalized this comparative thrust through the techniques of juxtaposition and translation. This anticolonial comparative sensibility, enabled by the journal form, produced a powerful analytic for understanding different European colonialisms together, not in mononational, monoimperialist terms as disaggregated and radically separate, but as connected in material and ideological terms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany scholars have argued convincingly that the institutionalised practice of comparison in the academic field of comparative literature is itself imbricated with histories of colonialism. Reza's argument, which is richly historicized and substantiated with extensive archival work, takes on a particular significance in the context of that critique as the anticolonial comparison she focuses on offers a different tradition of relational praxis from which to think about connection and comparison itself.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Reza, \u003cem\u003e Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures, University of Bristol\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexandra Reza joined the University of Bristol in 2021 as a lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures, and as the director of Bristol's new BA in Comparative Literatures and Cultures. In 2024-2027 she will take up a British Academy\/Wolfson Fellowship. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as \u003cem\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly, Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eResearch in African Literatures\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Lusophone Studies and French Studies\u003c\/em\u003e. She also regularly writes for a wider audience in publications such as the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLe Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2022 she was selected as a BBC\/AHRC New Generation Thinker.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.55 x 5.73 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45774326137029,"sku":"9780198896319","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/l-BppKdDS39780198896319.webp?v=1770521044","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/anticolonial-form-literary-journals-at-the-end-of-empire-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}