How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe? Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the postcolonial European legacy, the book argues that the commonly used nation-centric approach does not effectively capture the overlap between different colonial and postcolonial experiences across Europe.
Introduction, Lars Jensen, Julia Suarez-Krabbe, Christian Groes, and Zoran Pecic / 1. Uneven Whiteness. Images of Blackness and Whiteness in contemporary (postcolonial) Italy (2010-2012), Gaia Giuliani / 2. Challenging the Domestic Colonial Archive: Notes on the Racialization of the Italian Mezzogiorno, Carmine Conelli / 3. 'El Moro' - Discovering the hidden coloniality of the contemporary Spanish/Catalan society and its colonial subjects, Martin Lundsteen / 4. The Coloniality of Power and the Disempowerment of the Roma, Sabrina Marks and Miye Nadya Tom / 5. Claiming Greyness: Dutch Coloniality Against Polarisation, Patricia Schor and Egbert Alejandro Martina / 6. How to Draw a Haunted Nation: Colonial Ghosts and Specters in Conceicao Lima's Poems, Ines Nascimento Rodrigues / 7. Who Speaks the Postcolonial Community? Reflections on Language, Community, and Imperial Nostalgia within the European Continent, Elena Brugioni / 8. 'Translation as a Place of Loss': A Study of the Translations of Fanon's Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (1952) and their Role in Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Sarah Scales / 9. Between Imperial Anxieties and Post-Colonial Discourses, Alice Brown / 10. Possible Greenland - Impossible Denmark? Rigsfaellesskabet and the Postcolony, Lars Jensen / 11. From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Belgium and Postcolonialism, Sarah Arens / 12. Comparative Posts Going Political - the Postcolonial Backlash in Poland, Dorota Kolodziejczyk / 13. Between East and West: Queerness in Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace, Zoran Pecic / Postcolonial Europe: Afterword, Gurminder Bhambra / References / About the Authors / Index
