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- Granqvist, Raoul
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Drama (East Africa)
- 2005. - 2
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Ingår i: <em>Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English</em>. - London and New York : Routledge. - 0415051991 ; , s. 384-386
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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A Nineteenth‐century Finnish Reading Society and Its World Views : Commerce, Civilization and Colonialism Examined
- 2009
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Ingår i: Svensk biblioteksforskning. - Borås : Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och Informationsvetenskap. - 0284-4354 .- 1653-5235. ; 17:1, s. 1-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main objective of this essay is to examine the ʹworld viewsʹ of the nineteenth‐century Finnish circulatory library, ʺLäsesällskapet i Gamlakarlebyʺ that operated under mild imperial (Russian) supervision during its active period (1800‐ca 1870). For this purpose I have studied 93 beyond‐Europe books of travel and geography. I have identified two major ideological divides: a colonial that promotes ongoing aggressive Western expansion and a conciliatory one that mediates doubts and resistance. Samuel Ödmann, the translator and Uppsala professor of theology, represents the former divide; Anders Chydenius, one of the founding members, economist and clergyman, the latter. The collection engages, it is shown, the local reader of direct or indirect experiences of sailing, the ship industry and commerce which were the major trades of (Gamla)Karleby at the time. The Africa and West Indies related texts are a particularly rich feature. Slavery andt he unlucky Swedish part in colonization (Sierra Leone and St. Barthélemy) concern the readers.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J., 1940-
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Afrika i adertonhundratalets Gamlakarleby : om kolonialism, slavhandel och motstånd
- 2009
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Ingår i: Horisont:organ för Svenska Österbottens litteraturförening. - Närpes, Finland : Svenska Österbottens litteraturförening. - 0439-5530. ; 55:1, s. 40-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Essän diskuterar en liten samling reseskildringar om Afrika som ingår i Läsesällskapets i Gamlakarleby bibliotek i Karleby, Finland. Böckerna insamlades under tidigt adertonhundratal under en tid då denna stad var en av Nordens främsta och rikaste hamnstäder. Hypotesen är att detta faktum även reflekterar det stora intresset för en värld även utanför Europa. Essän diskuterar två förhållningssätt som samlingen gestaltar: en kolonial och 'civilisatorisk' och en annan kolonialkritisk. Den förra synen representeras av översättaren Samuel Ödmann och den senare av riksdagsmannen och kaplanen Anders Chydenius, en av Läsesällskapets grundare.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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'Att leva ut slaven i mig' : postkoloniala perspektiv på Sara Lidman i apartheids Sydafrika 1960-1961
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; 2, s. 62-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish writer Sara Lidmann (1923-2004) wrote Jag och min son ("I and My Son") after a brief stint in apartheid's South Africa in 1960-61, from where she was expelled for a violation of the Immorality Act. Based on a close, interrelated study of her diary, her letters and the two manuscripts (first published in 1961 and revised and re-published in 1963), this essay ("'To outlive the slave in me': Postcolonial Perspectives on Sara Lidman in Apartheid's South Africa 1960-1961") examines the colonial boundary crisis of the Self. The major protagonists in the novel(s) embody variously aspects of the writer's angst as it developed in the Johannesburg colonial setting of persecuted ANC members, the elite of the local Swedish community, and the pressure of her anticolonial frustrations. Sexuality is a major element in the "nervous condition" that characterizes the fragmented and confusing conceptualization of the novel. Its extensive rewriting was an attempt at strengthening its ideological, anti-imperial modus, pushing the novel into the environs of the postcolonial allegory such as in such texts as Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) and Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974). A second self-castigating theme, this essay claims, is the impact of the religious background of the author as born into -- but never at peace with -- strong evangelical and paternal practices. 'Outliving the slave' (a quote from one of her letters) in the title of the essay proposes a Fanonian reading of the circulatory and traumatizing notion of rebellion (against Apartheid) and submission (to it). The third theme involves the idealization of the child that also involves a colonial cul-de-sac of self-positioning expressed both in the novel and the writer's attempts at adopting an African child (never realized).
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- Granqvist, Raoul J
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False Obedience and Power
- 2006
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Ingår i: <em>Writitng Back and/in Translation</em>. - Frankfurt-am-Main, Berlin, Bern,, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang. - 3631548311 ; , s. 7-18
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Literature : [African] Popular Literature
- 2007. - 2
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Ingår i: New Encyclopedia of Africa. - Detroit, New York, San Francisco, New Haven, conn., Waterville, Maine, London : Thomson-Gale, Charles Scribner's Sons. - 0684314541 ; , s. 340-342
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This substantial expansion and reworking of the classic Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara (1997) covers the entire continent, from the Europe-facing shores of the Mediterranean to the commercial bustle of Cape Town. The set addresses the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent countries, some of them, like Nigeria, newly emergent in world commerce and others deep in conflict (Sudan, Liberia, Congo). The NEA treats today's African peoples not as the obscure "other" of a "Dark Continent" but as actors on a world stage where issues of global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism play out across a map of indigenous cultures functioning beneath an imperfect European overlay of "national states." Articles in anthropology, geography, history, and cultural studies by an international team of more than 600 distinguished Africanists (including over 150 from Africa and the African Diaspora) present Africa – as seen by Africans themselves.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Med Gud och kung Leopold i ryggen : en berättelse om svensk mission i Kongo
- 2008
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Ingår i: Ord&Bild: Norden & kolonialismen. - 0030-4492. ; :2, s. 98-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Kolonialismen kommer i många olika skepnader och underordning. Militären och missionären möttes i en gemensam självpåtagen roll att sprida civilisation av kristendom och många gånger var de också ömsesidigt beroende av varandra. Denna essä är en närläsning av Svenska missionsförbundets verksamhet i Kongodeltat.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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The African Writer as Translator of/in His/Her Own Text
- 2006
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Ingår i: <em>Writing Back and/in Translation</em>. - Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang. - 3631548311 ; , s. 91-101
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Translation as an Emancipatory Act?
- 2008
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Ingår i: Neither West Nor East. - Stockholm : Södertörns högskola. - 9789189315891 ; , s. 29-41
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recognition that culture is not a stable unit but a dynamic process that nurtures on negotiation, incompleteness, difference and performance is saying -- broadly speaking -- that culture is translation. Translation is part of the field of cultural and social practice that inhabits the zones of transitions between cultures; it is a critical dimension where different cultures and cultural conflicts merge and are wrought. There is an understanding that it is not a simple one-tracked notion of textual evidence transported from the source text to the target text. Even the 'source' and the 'target' are too divided and blurred to serve as normative points of references. New cultural meanings -- liberatory meanings -- can be sought in the overlapping semiotics of borderline translation (Spivak, Bhabha, Young). In this chapter I discuss -- and promote -- translation as a beneficial act act of metonymic cross-writing. I reach this position in a roundabout manner. First I outline Western or mainstream tendencies of the search for equivalences and universals in the pursuit of the fluent translation. What is favoured is an imagined source text in a 'pure' form and a copy faithful and subservient. Such homogenizing or essentializing approaches, it is shown, reinforce hegemonic versions of the text worlds and their often complex collective and refracted self-images. In this second section of the chapter I look at a few cases of how such pluricentral texts are a) already translated, or b) are being (re-)translated metonymically in the process of their 'writing'. Such texts evoke alien or remote language cultures that need translation strategies that shift the focus away from the classic binary of domesticating and foreignization. In the final section of the presentation I return to the suggestions projected by the title of the chaper: the act of translation as a liberating signifying system through transgression and misunderstanding. It is translation as ceaseless mobility and momentary rest; a writing back and/in translation. I discuss: Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma and Salman Rushdie.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Visuality and Memory in African Fiction
- 2006
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Ingår i: <em>Postcolonial Studies</em>. - Trento : Dipartimento di Studia Letterari, Linguistici e Filologici. ; , s. 185-198
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