Description: Brydon, Forsgren, and Fur's Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds demonstrates the value of reading for concurrences in situating discussions of archives, voices, and history in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Starting with the premise that our pluriversal world is constructed from concurrent imaginaries yet the role of concurrences has seldom been examined, the collection brings together case studies that confirm the productivity of reading, looking, and listening for concurrences across established boundaries of disciplinary or geopolitical engagement. Contributors working in art history, sociology, literary, and historical studies bring examples of Nordic colonialism together with analyses of colonial practices worldwide. The collection invites uptake of the study of concurrences within the humanities and in interdisciplinary fields such as postcolonial, cultural, and globalization studies.
Brief description:
Diana Brydon FRSC (PhD ANU 1977), Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies, teaches in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. She has published books and articles in Canadian and postcolonial literary and cultural studies.
Peter Forsgren (PhD 1992), Professor in Swedish and Comparative Literature, teaches in the Department of Film and Literature at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has published books and articles in Swedish 20th century prose.
Gunlög Fur (PhD University of Oklahoma 1993), Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Linnaeus University. Her research and publications focus on colonial cultural encounters, indigenous histories, gender, and entangled histories of Scandinavian immigrants and American Indians.