Subject: Re: postcolonial denmark
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:28:04 +0100


Having no written or oral knowledge of Danish, I'd be quite interested as
well if someone could provide a brief summary of this book.
As a matter of fact, there is one "postcolonial" writer in whose work
Denmark looms large... Anglo-Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub spent a few
years there, and gave a few talks about his stay, not forgetting the
unforgettable THE CARRIER, a novel published in 1998 and which is partly set
in contemporary (and 16th century) Denmark.

Guillaume Cingal

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Subject: postcolonial denmark


> I am wondering whether anyone of you has heard of a new book that's just
> come out in Denmark. Apparently it's a devastating critique of Denmark
> among other things. Would love to know of anyone has any opinion.
> Here's the reference to the book:
>
> Poddar, Prem (2004) Postkolonial Kontra-modernitet: Immigration,
> Identitet, Historie, Forlaget Modtryk.
>
> And the promotion material says:
>
> Denne bog er både et originalt bidrag til forskningen inden for det
> postkoloniale felt og den første danske bog, der behandler nogle af de
> påtrængende og komplekse spørgsmål, som stilles af den postkoloniale
> kritik: Hvem kan tale på nationens vegne?  Hvordan fremkaldes
> nationalfølelser? Hvordan indplaceres flygtningen og migranten i forhold
> til nationens tid og rum?
> Disse spørgsmål besvares gennem artikler, der varierer fra studier af
> den grønlandske erfaring i den danske forestillingsverden til
> amerikanske bosætter-beretninger med forbindelser til krigen i Irak.
> Eurocentrisk historie og imperiets arkiver bliver også gransket i en
> artikel om tilsynekomsten af en historisk bevidsthed i det koloniale
> Indien.
>
> Best.
> Zen.
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