Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099940
Ana Cristina Mendes, Lisa Lau
Amnesty continues several of the social justice themes of precarity and subalternity (at times, a violent subaltern agency) of Aravind Adiga’s fiction, and its literary narrative centres again on criminal acts and the moral dilemma the protagonist faces over whether to report a murder and expose his illegality to do “the right thing.” Offering a postcolonial reading of Amnesty supported by concepts from migration, citizenship, and human rights studies, this essay discusses the novel’s representation of the inhospitable conditions experienced by migrants victimized by the precarity of their status, whether discursively categorized as illegal, irregular, undocumented, unauthorized, or unlawful; by the consequent exploitations and abuse without recourse to justice; and by the suspension of their human rights. The theme of illegality is approached in Adiga’s narrative from a more radical perspective of liminality – the state of “legal liminality” in which irregular migrants find themselves when longing to belong in the host country, or at least be legalized, while gripped and besieged by myriad daily fears and anxieties that their legal status will be discovered, compounded by a resolute refusal to leave the host country. Adiga forces this theoretical question of legal liminality to an extreme by presenting a protagonist who, as an irregular migrant, has committed the political crime of illegally overstaying in the host country. The central question of amnesty is raised when the protagonist faces the dilemma of stepping up to civic responsibilities without having been conceded participatory rights.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099946
Maria Elena Indelicato
Settler colonies such as those in Australia during the nineteenth century were rife with myths. One myth in particular bears witness to a complex matrix of colonial relations, in which race and gender intersected in the definition of who could be counted as a “respectable” member of the settler population. “Neither black nor white,” the Chinese were invariably disliked by Aboriginal peoples. The present essay takes this myth of racial antagonism as the starting point for an analysis that disentangles the discursive strategies that white settlers adopted to assuage anxieties concerning their identity from the practices that Chinese migrants adopted to uphold their right to settle (in) Victoria. To do so, this essay first charts the liberal, British, imperial order that enabled the mass migration of Chinese men to Victoria, and then maps the counter discourses that were mobilized against the unbridled movement of those men. Second, it examines the measures that were taken to curtail Chinese arrivals (1854–1863) and, by using gender as heuristic, it deconstructs the concomitant myth that the Chinese were “sojourners.” Last, by approaching settler colonialism as a regime that capitalizes upon the aspirations of oppressed groups, this essay illustrates the ways in which ordinary Chinese men turned their characterization as passive recipients of violence into respectability by contraposing themselves against a third racialised and gendered population group: Irish women.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080575
Maria Grau Perejoan
This essay analyses contemporary Anglophone Caribbean poetry which, in contrast to mainstream representations mostly tailored for a western readership, advances an optimistic, yet non-idealised and incisive, perspective on the region. These poetics resist the pervasiveness of the colonial construction of Caribbean island spaces as tourist havens, addressing the profound impact and overpowering influence of tourism in the region. This essay focuses on two island-based writers, Bahamian poet Sonia Farmer and Saint Lucian poet Kendel Hippolyte, whose poetry highlights and condemns the continuities between colonialism and the tourist industry, as well as the social and psychological effects of the region’s economic subjugation and overall neo-colonial status. Their poetry does not only debunk the myths of island isolation and statism, but also advances new visions for the region which call for the recognition of grassroots alternatives to the present milieu.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099942
Mithilesh Kumar, Kasia Narkowicz
This essay traces the political and legal discourses around migrants and refugees in two distinct conditions: the postcolonial and the postsocialist of India and Poland, respectively. The two countries have recently turned to nationalist right-wing politics with an increasingly hostile focus on foreign Others, particularly Muslims. In the context of increased global surveillance and criminalization of Muslims, we show how the bodies of Muslim migrants are dehumanized and constructed as threats, denying their humanity in the process. We do this through the two cases of Ayub and Ameer, two Muslim men navigating their “illegality” in two different contexts in India and Poland. This essay is a contribution to the literature on postcolonial and postsocialist theories and critical debates about the possibilities of dialogue between postsocialist and postcolonial geographies. The examples we use demonstrate that the postcolonial and postsocialist nation-states respond to global phenomena such as migration and Islamophobia in ways that have discernible traces of their histories and are constituted distinctively from the western metropoles.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099938
Ishmael Bhila, Edson Chiwenga
The informal street vendor in Zimbabwe has become a subject of abuse and neglect. The condition of subalternity suffered by blacks under colonial structures has been transferred to the vendor in the postcolonial epoch. The apparatus used by colonial regimes to keep the blacks at the peripheries of the city-scape are the ones now used to keep the vendor in subalternity – a condition where the vendor is a subject robbed of a voice, agency and visibility. In this study we situate the position of the subalternised vendor, showing how an intersection of identities of vulnerability subjugate the vendor to a neglected place at the periphery of economic society. Using sociological and postcolonial analysis we show how the position of the informal vendor in Harare as a subaltern has led policy makers in Zimbabwe to turn a blind eye to their plight and to treat them as a nuisance and as enemies.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2099943
Luís Trindade
This essay questions the historical narrative of liberation struggles in the long 1960s by looking into two documentary films: La Hora de los Hornos, by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino (Argentina 1968), and Le Fond de L’Air est Rouge, by Chris Marker (France 1977). A comparative analysis of the two films – two long narratives of neocolonialism and anti-imperialism – will allow us not only to revisit the periodization of the sixties, but also the ability of militant cinema to overcome the shortcomings of traditional historiography to render the global geopolitics of its struggles. More specifically, the deployment of montage in La Hora decentred the political hierarchies of the capitalist world-system from the perspective of the third world, thus opening history to a global approach of the long 1960s; as for Le Fond, the film can be seen as a global archive of images reinforcing the worldwide scope of the period’s struggles while simultaneously giving it a sense of historical closure. The formal experiments in La Hora and Le Fond allow us to reflect on these films’ status as forms of historical mediation. Showing 1960s political struggles through the formal procedures of film, however, challenges traditional history in fundamental ways. Accordingly, the essay concludes with a reflection on the historicity of film narratives. In particular, it will try to point to how film montage and duration may constitute appropriate narrative forms to come to terms with some of the major challenges currently put to historiography: the global circulation in the history of capitalism and the temporality of the end of communism.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080576
Janet M. Wilson
Islands offshore in Aotearoa New Zealand are locations for experimental fictions that approach the issues of exclusion/inclusion through “cast off” perspectives. This essay examines – from a historical materialist perspective – novels by writers from the mid-twentieth century: Robin Hyde (Wednesday’s Children, 1937) and Janet Frame (A State of Siege, 1966), whose island locations expand the national imaginary with interrogations of female subjectivity, landscape and society. Drawing on Etienne Balibar’s concept of homo nationalis (i.e. the national being or citizen as subject), it claims that islands are sites for new start-ups in their fiction: they enable alternative representations of the female artist within the nation-state that nevertheless show reduced connectedness to national frameworks that shape social identities. The isolated spinster hero interrogates her self-construction, undergoes loss of the boundaries of self/other, inside/outside, and belonging/non-belonging, leading to self-fragmentation and dissolution.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080573
Dixa Ramírez-D’Oleo
This essay argues that “insolence” and “indolence” define two sides of the coin that is the figure of the free black on the island that now encompasses both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On one side of the coin is the insolent free black, who laughed in the face of colonial commonsense through exorbitant physical and geographic movement. On the other side is the indolent free black, whose stillness is suspicious and seems to hide malevolence. Either insolent or indolent, the free black on this island emerges in various cultural and historical texts as untethered to the fungible and laboring function of blackness in the Americas, occasioning horror and suspicion. This essay has three main goals. The first is to show that the anxieties that free blacks on this island instigated for the European colonizer emerged in relation to both French Saint-Domingue or present-day Haiti and Spanish Santo Domingo, or present-day Dominican Republic. The second is to illustrate how the colonial mind has innovated methods to repress, discipline, or compartmentalize the terror that the figure of the free black, especially on this island, occasioned. The essay explores the figure of the insolent free black through the historical case of a serial killer terrorizing the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo in the early 1790s and who became known as El Negro Incógnito, or The Unknown Black (Man). It then turns to the figure of the indolent free black through the appearance of Carrefour, a character in the 1943 film I Walked With a Zombie. Finally, it places in conversation mostly historical and anthropological scholarship about free blacks in the island of Haiti/Hispaniola with more recent, usually U.S.-focused theoretical works of critical black thought on blackness and liberal humanism.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2054007
Matthias De Groof
As the colonial roots of the ecological crisis become ever more apparent and its colonial present (in the form of environmental racism, climate apartheid, and green imperialism) also increasingly evident, one might consider climate activism and its aesthetics to be anticolonial. In this essay I discuss the aesthetics of eco-cinema from the “Global South” in terms of both artistic expression and activist uses of the medium, and examine how they propose new ways of producing films as well as alternative forms of imagination to what I will call “monoculture.” Through a reappraisal of what anticolonial aesthetics have historically entailed, and by recognizing these aesthetics in contemporary eco-films from the South, I intend to contribute to a reconsideration of the terms “anticolonial” and “aesthetics,” as well as of the relationship between the two as politics of transformation.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-07DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080578
M. Leroy
Asylum seekers to Australia in the early twenty-first century have been largely depicted in the national press as an anonymous threat demanding military action and offshore detention. Australia’s responses to asylum seekers have taken place within a paranoid atmosphere of a nation under siege. This essay examines the negative narratives regarding asylum seekers in Australia and the historical and cultural structures they are built upon. The essay suggests eyewitness accounts as a way to pierce the blanketing anonymity of asylum seekers in the media and traces some of the methods made possible by social media and corresponding networks to bring these narratives to the public at large.
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