Mathias Beike

Bio: Mathias Beike is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Postcolonial literature. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 85 citations.

Colonial And Postcolonial Literature Migrant Metaphors

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Livingstone's 'lives': A metabiography of a Victorian icon

Abstract: 1. Bio-diversity: metabiographical method 2. Styling the self: making missionary travels 3. Death: lamenting Livingstone 4. Empire: imperial afterlives 5. Nation: Scotland's son 6. Fiction: laughing at Livingstone? 7. Revisionism: sins, psyche, sex Index

Pouvoirs civils et religieux dans la fiction d'Earl Lovelace (1935-...) : entre collusion et collision

Abstract: Dans les romans et nouvelles d’Earl Lovelace, l'ile de Trinidad se trouve aux confluents de systemes antagonistes, branles par la recente decolonisation. Les forces civiles et religieuses, piliers de l’organisation societale, ne peuvent echapper aux dynamiques de transmutation et d’adaptation. Ainsi, dans un contexte de secularisation et de politisation croissante, le religieux se voit oblige d’ecarter toute tendance autarcique, s’il veut triompher de la tentative d’annexion par le politique. Un conflit, dont l’enjeu n’est autre que la survie de l’individu, est des lors engage. Cette these se propose d’explorer les relations de rivalite et d’usurpation entre pouvoirs civils et religieux de meme que l’issue du depassement de cette dichotomie au sein de la Caraibe lovelacienne. En d’autres termes, le politique dans la fiction de Lovelace detruit-il le religieux ou fait-il corps avec lui afin que s’opere le passage d’une politique condamnable a une foi praxis de liberation ?

Reconfiguring the Extraterritorial: History, Language, and Identity in selected works by Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz

Abstract: This thesis argues for a reassessment of the concept of extraterritorial literature—a term coined by George Steiner in the late sixties to highlight the global approach of nomad authors who refused to belong to a single national tradition by means of linguistic experimentation. It does so by examining a variety of examples from the work of Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz, two authors born in separate nations within the same island (Hispaniola) who live in the United States and who write in a language strange yet adjacent to their countries of origin. Danticat and Diaz express their extraterritoriality through three different approaches: By reframing the ‘official’ historical discourse of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the 20th century perpetuated by the military regimes of the Duvaliers and Trujillo; by diversifying theories of identity creation and the migrant’s role within and outside of his or her diaspora; and by reconfiguring the elocution of a new extraterritorial language which challenges pre-established parameters through the subversion of Core languages. On a larger scale, this thesis contends that, in an increasingly fluid contemporary world, extraterritorial literature can serve as a counterpoint to the insular concerns of canonical systems of classification and standardised concepts of national literature. As such, extraterritorial literature also asks us to reconsider labels such as post-nationalism and cosmopolitanism as flights of fancy detached from the harsh realities instilled by the many levels of economic and cultural inequality between nations. Whereas Goethe saw comparative literature as a practice founded upon dialogues between national literatures, extraterritorial literature transcends frontiers by embracing its own complexities and inherent incompleteness, ultimately helping to construct liminal scopes and a framework for the constant critique of literary terminology itself.

The ‘new Chinatown’: the racialization of newly arrived Chinese migrants in Singapore

Abstract: Studies of racism tend to rely on a presumed dichotomy between whites and ‘Others,’ whether Black or Asian. Even as many scholars have established that whiteness is manufactured, ethnographic studi...