GCSC Book Talk: Jens Kugele im Gespräch mit Dirk Uffelmann & Pawel Zajas. "Postcolonial Studies. Einführung in globaler Perspektive/ A Global Perspective"
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- GCSC Book Talk: Jens Kugele im Gespräch mit Dirk Uffelmann & Pawel Zajas. "Postcolonial Studies. Einführung in globaler Perspektive/ A Global Perspective"
- 2026-05-26T17:00:00+02:00
- 2026-05-26T18:30:00+02:00
May 26, 2026 from 05:00 to 06:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Konferenzraum- 001, EG, Otto-Behaghel.Str. 12 and online
Important Notice: The presentation of the book will be in German (with slides in English); the discussion will be both in English and German.
Abstract
How does alien cultural domination affect the oppressed? This question is answered in the present introduction to "postcolonial literary studies", the first volume to study postcolonial theories from all continents. Its topics range from German debates about repatriation and the relationship between Windhoek and Auschwitz to migration literature, Anglo-American and Australian analyses of (post-)colonial discourses, Latin-American decolonial critique, and Caribbean, African, and South-Asian cultural theories. This new type of introduction covers inner-European colonialisms from Bosnia to Russia while also outlining Ukrainian debates on decolonisation and highlighting the postcolonial controversy over Israel and Gaza..
Further info: click here for a previous interview with the authors!