Situating the Andean Colonial Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Local History ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
Andean Pact

Re-situating Andean colonial history from the perspective of the local historians of ayllu Qaqachaka, in highland Bolivia, this book draws on regional oral history combined with local and public written archives. Rejecting the binary models in vogue in colonial and postcolonial studies (indigenous/non-indigenous, Andean/Western, conquered/conquering), it explores the complex intercalation of legal pluralism and local history in the negotiations around Spanish demands, resulting in the so-called "Andean pact." The Qaqachaka's point of reference is the preceding Inka occupation, so in fulfilling Spanish demands they seek cultural continuity with this recent past. Spanish colonial administration, applies its roots in Roman-Germanic and Islamic law to many practices in the newly-conquered territories. Two major cycles of ayllu tales trace local responses to these colonial demands, in the practices for establishing settlements, and the feeding and dressing of the Catholic saints inside the new church, with their forebears in the Inka mummies.

Mimesis and the Historical Imagination: (Re)Staging History in Cape Verde, West Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA S. MCMAHON
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Local History ◽  
West African ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Global Performance ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

This article examines what is at stake when performers and playwright critically transfigure oral histories when staging them theatrically. Representations of race and colonial history are integral to a nation's conception of its own cultural identity. These issues are at the forefront of many theatre productions in Cape Verde, an intensely creolized West African nation whose islands bear traces of the Europeans and Africans who have commingled there for centuries. The article examines two performances rooted in Cape Verdean history that challenge existing theoretical paradigms for the mimetic relationship between actors and the historical personae they portray onstage. Proposing the concept of the ‘historical imagination’, it explores how theatre artists self-consciously alter the local history they circulate to an international theatre festival stage and, concomitantly, how the theatre festival context and media coverage profoundly impact how national history is told within a global performance arena.

Colonial History and Historiography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Albane de Suremain
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Military History ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Cultural Hybridization ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Second World

The colonial condition in Africa has been revisited by all of the main historiographic currents of thought, from a heroizing, highly political and military history of colonization primarily considered from the colonists’ standpoint, to a much more complex and rich history integrating the colonized perspective. This history has been enhanced by contributions from Postcolonial Studies and Subaltern Studies as well as from New Imperial History and perspectives opened by its global interconnected history. At the intersection of these issues and methods, colonial studies offers an innovative reinterpretation of various facets of colonial Africa, such as the factors and justifications for colonial expansion; conquests and colonial wars; processes of territorial appropriation and border demarcation; and the organization and control of the colonies. In these fundamentally inegalitarian societies, accommodation and social and cultural hybridization processes were also at work, as well as multiple forms of resistance or subversion that paved the way for African states to win their independence. In addition to the role played by the First and Second World Wars, the emergence of nationalist and separatist movements helps to clarify the multifaceted nature of these independences, when approached from a political as well as a cultural and social perspective, while questioning the durability of the legacy of the colonial phase in African history.

Peripheral eyes: Brazilians and India, 1947–61

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananya Chakravarti
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

AbstractThe post-Second World War era witnessed the need for new political forms to accommodate the aspirations for national identity of newly decolonized nations within the hegemonic structure of the Cold War. Although both Cold War historiography and postcolonial studies have analysed these phenomena, the place of Latin America in general and Brazil in particular remains fraught with conceptual difficulties, largely due to the very different (post)colonial experience of this region from the rest of the ‘Third World’. This article examines how three Brazilian intellectuals and diplomats observed India from its independence until the annexation of Portuguese India by the Indian Union in 1961. In exploring their peripheral gaze, it shows how Brazilian self-identification with the West, and particularly its complex relationship with the heritage of European colonialism, prevented a truly commensurable experience, despite a sense of commonality with India based on their peripheral position in the global political structure.

The archaeology of the Spanish Colonial experience in South America

Antiquity ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 66 (250) ◽  
pp. 217-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Schaedel
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
American History ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
North Americans ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
Columbian Exchange ◽  
Black Legend ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
South Americans

Reluctant as one is to admit it, the 12,000 years of North America’s past prior to Columbus are still regarded as irrelevant to mainstream American history. BRIANF AGAN( 1990: 33)IntroductionBrian Fagan’s declaration about the ‘clash of cultures’ applies to contemporary Mesoamericans and South Americans as it does to North Americans. We have passed beyond the age of the ‘Black Legend’, perhaps not entirely, but enough to regard the ‘Columbian exchange’ (Crosby 1973) as a massive confrontation of peoples, the emotional reverberations of which have not entirely disappeared, but whose effects a few of us can measure with scientific objectivity.

scholarly journals Colonial Spain in Africa: Building a Shared History from Memories of the Spanish Protectorate and Spanish Guinea

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e017
Author(s):  
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
African History ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Shared History

This article compares Spanish, Riffian and Equatorial Guinean memories to address Hispano-African history and understand their colonial experiences. Examining Africans’ voices in the 21st century from Postcolonial and Decolonial perspectives allows us to uncover Spanish colonial rhetoric about Moroccans and Equatorial Guineans and the racialised inequalities they had to face during the Spanish settlement. This approach shows the urgency of conciliating different versions and promoting a decoloniality process for Spain: the colonial past must be rebuilt for all and different sociocultural encounters must be rewritten to include expressly African voices. The final aim is to offer a contested version of Spanish colonial history in 20th century Africa, promoting a more shared social colonial history.

Introduction: Global Morrison

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Justine Baillie
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Black Intellectual ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Black Writing ◽  
New Generation

Abstract As novelist, academic, and public intellectual Toni Morrison has made a profound contribution to the transformation of the black intellectual and political aesthetic. In many ways Morrison’s literary and theoretical formulations represent the feminization of black writing traditions through her representations of identity as being fluid and socially constructed. Her novels transform memory into alternative narratives of recovery that illuminate obscured histories of slavery, migration and urbanisation. This project constitutes a rich legacy for a new generation of writers who, working within a global nexus, interrogate the racial economics of trauma, dislocation and exile in ways that dissolve the distinctions between African American, colonial, and postcolonial studies. The introduction to this special issue highlights the transnational scope of Morrison’s work, with a particular focus on her non-fiction.

scholarly journals Post-imperialism, postcolonialism and beyond: Towards a periodization of cultural discourse about colonial legacies

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Göttsche
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Political Understanding

Taking German history and culture as a starting point, this essay suggests a historical approach to reconceptualizing different forms of literary engagement with colonial discourse, colonial legacies and (post)colonial memory in the context of Comparative Postcolonial Studies. The deliberate blending of a historical, a conceptual and a political understanding of the ‘postcolonial’ in postcolonial scholarship raises problems of periodization and historical terminology when, for example, anti-colonial discourse from the colonial period or colonialist discourse in Weimar Germany are labelled ‘postcolonial’. The colonial revisionism of Germany’s interwar period is more usefully classed as post-imperial, as are particular strands of retrospective engagement with colonial history and legacy in British, French and other European literatures and cultures after 1945. At the same time, some recent developments in Francophone, Anglophone and German literature, e.g. Afropolitan writing, move beyond defining features of postcolonial discourse and raise the question of the post-postcolonial.

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