Fighting Words
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Dominic Davies is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained his DPhil in Post/Colonial Literature. His first monograph, Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930, was published in 2017.
Erica Lombard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg. She holds a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford.
Benjamin Mountford is Senior Lecturer in History at Australian Catholic University. He was formerly a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University and is the author of Britain, China, & Colonial Australia and co-editor of A Global History of Gold Rushes.
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CONTENTS: Tessa Roynon et al.: Introduction to Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century - Dominic Davies/Erica Lombard/Benjamin Mountford: Introduction: Fighting Words: Books and the Making of the Postcolonial World - Dominic Davies: From Communism to Postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto (1848) - Imaobong Umoren: Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South (1892): Black Feminism and Human Rights - Christina Twomey: Ambivalence, Admiration and Empire: Emily Hobhouse's The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell (1902) - Reiland Rabaka: W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903): Of the Veil and the Color-Line, of Double-Consciousness and Second-Sight - Priyasha Mukhopadhyay: Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform (1913): Annie Besant's Anticolonial Networks - Janet Remmington: Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa (1916): The Politics of Belonging - Elleke Boehmer: Making Freedom: Jawaharlal Nehru's An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946) - Rouven Kunstmann: Joseph B. Danquah's The Akan Doctrine of God (1944): Anticolonial Fragments? - Johanna Richter: The Resistant Forces of Myth: Miguel Ángel Asturias's Men of Maize (1949) - Ruth Bush: The Hip-Hop Legacies of Cheikh Anta Diop's Nations nègres et culture (1954) - Asha Rogers: Culture in Transition: Rajat Neogy's Transition (1961-1968) and the Decolonization of African Literature - John Narayan: Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961): The Spectre of the Third World Project - Benjamin Mountford: «The Match is in the Spinifex»: Frank Hardy's The Unlucky Australians (1968) - Michael R. Griffiths: Provenance, Identification and Confession in Sally Morgan's My Place (1987) - Erica Lombard: Freedom Fighter/Postcolonial Saint: The Symbolic Legacy of Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom (1994) - Antoinette Burton/Isabel Hofmeyr: Afterword: Plotting a Postcolonial Course in Fifteen Chapters.