期刊名称：Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies
印刷版ISSN：1948-1845
电子版ISSN：1948-1853
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：3
出版社：Wright State University
摘要：Elleke Boehmer1 once wrote: “[The British Empire] was the Royal Navy and Queen Victoria, and the One Race and One Flag. But it was also represented by texts”. If the Empire and colonial power is perceived as a ‘textual exercise’, probably the vantage ground of the post-colonial world is the artistic and cultural productions of collectively referred to as post-coloniality. Although adopting bifurcated and multi-textured artefacts, resistance movements to colonial powers and their imperial aftermath have a domineering locale that is the cultural productions in forms of literature, cinema, music and media among others. As it goes without saying, post-colonialism or post-colonial theory that has stretched out to include various disciplines and schools of thought has originated from reading and analysing cultural products. The collection of the essays in the book conjointly entitled: “Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music” explores the power of cultural artefacts (literature, film and music) in promoting various aspects of social and political resistance to the postcolonial tyrannical regimes in the Middle East. It also examines the role of these artefacts to inculcate the mass social movements in their search for freedom, social and political justice, equality and democracy.
