Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2233709
P. Cartwright
ABSTRACT This article examines the representation of Internet technologies in two recent Nigerian comic novels, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s (2009) I Do Not Come to You by Chance and A. Igoni Barrett’s (2015) Blackass. Departing from founding mythologies of the Internet as a space of global assimilation and extending beyond extant postcolonial concerns with technological exclusion or malfunction, the article demonstrates how Internet technologies facilitate forms of global subjectification that amplify rather than diminish national consciousness. Reading Nwaubani’s representations of “419” email fraud alongside Barrett’s experimental approach to Twitter form, the article shows how both novels critically reflect upon the globalizing potentials and limitations of Internet technologies from the perspective of a “post-development” Nigeria. It argues that these novels depict characters dialectically engaging with national and global contexts – mobilizing national stereotypes to address global audiences – yet, in turn, redeploying global capital (financial and cultural) to achieve more localized forms of status.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2238983
Melissa A. Kennedy
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2232571
Amitendu Bhattacharya
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2224946
Wulf D. Hund
ABSTRACT Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is a darkly ingenious bestseller. The eponymous hero of the book, in his very name, indexes not only the pursuit of profit (”Kreutzer”), but also hegemonic cultural pretensions (“cross”), and oppressive claims to power (“cruiser”). The three volumes of the novel clandestinely promote European colonialism, Christian ascendancy, and white supremacy. Their message, a cover for slavery and genocide under the veil of a supposed civilizing mission, has the result of calling for a new Holy War (“crusade”). Against this backdrop, the political economy of the “Robinsonade” turns out to be anything but the solitary business of a stranded castaway. Instead, it manifests as the exploratory and exploitative world tour of an imperial strategist. Authenticated by the encrypted scheme in the naming of its hero, the “Robinsonade” is also the foundation of a “Crus(oe)-ade”, a prelude to colonization as well as global dominance.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2225136
Izabela Poręba
ABSTRACT This article examines The Sand Child (L’enfant de sable) by Tahar Ben Jelloun as a liminal trauma narrative. The novel is discussed as an attempt to narrativize trauma. Although trauma resists narrativization, it is in these manifestations of failure that the essence of the narrative is sought. Its liminality (fragmentation, openness, intertextuality, and inconclusiveness) results from Ben Jelloun’s intention to convey the difficulties of expressing a trauma. Thus, the oral context of the novel’s communicative situation, the rivalry of raconteurs (narrators), is described as a hypoleptic practice that results in commoning; that is, creating a community of storytellers and listeners/readers. The article also rethinks the relationship between text and reader through trauma theory to highlight the ethical responsibility of a reader who bears witness to a protagonist’s trauma. The protagonist’s reluctance to work through the trauma is regarded as a manifestation of resistance to cultural expectations, especially gender role models.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2235099
Claire Reddleman
As we press on into the fourth century after the first publication of Robinson Crusoe , in which Daniel Defoe’s eponymous hero, Robinson Crusoe, continues to stand for the man alone on an island, variously governor-king and rugged individual survivor, it is an apt moment to reconsider the role he has taken up in our collective imagination. The four articles in this special focus issue take up their rereadings of Crusoe in light of 300 years of interpretation, the end of the era of European colonialism, and the advent of postcolonial thought. The by-now enormous scholarly literature built up around Crusoe speaks to his enduring appeal for academics, critics, creative writers, and even economists (Reddleman 2023, 465) and his popularity extends into popular culture, where a Google search reveals the tremendously rich afterlife of this character and his name. Crusoe is routinely mentioned in news and entertainment stories with even a passing suggestion of being isolated or marooned, survival, shipwreck, living on an island, or simply going on holiday. His name echoes through films, TV series, video games, board games, operettas and pantomimes, cartoons, holiday resorts, islands, airlines, artworks, and novels.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2199540
Bruce King
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2194490
Awu Isaac Oben
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2171587
Paoi Hwang
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