TY - BOOK AU - Hoffmann,Anette AU - Peeren,Esther ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Representation matters: (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world T2 - Thamyris intersecting: place, sex, and race, AV - HM753 .R47 2010eb PY - 2010/// CY - Amsterdam, New York PB - Rodopi KW - Group identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Identity politics KW - Representation (Philosophy) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : representation matters / Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren -- 1. Concepts of postcolonial identity : contingent articulations. Alterity and identities: the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? The problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / Gülru Çakmak -- 2. Relational histories. Romani identity formation and the globalization of Holocaust discourse / Huub van Baar ; Similarity and difference : the appearance of suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly -- 3. Rethinking origins and indigeneity. Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabaré : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. Reinventing tradition. Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in André Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10420108 ER -