Cultures of decolonisation : transnational productions and practices, 1945-70

CONTENTS
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Reframing cultures of decolonisation
- Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle 1

PART I – Decolonising metropolitan cultures?
1 Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order: The tragic voice of Richard Wright
- Bill Schwarz 29

2 Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and ‘New Commonwealth Internationalism’
- Damian Skinner 51

3 Henry Swanzy, Sartre’s zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement
- Rob Waters 67

4 Anxiety abroad: Austerity, abundance and race in post-war visual culture
- David C. Wall 86

PART II – Performing decolonisation
5 The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal Dutt’s Invincible Vietnam
- Abin Chakraborty 109

6 Cultural heritage as performance: Re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953–70)
- Michael Falser 126

7 ‘I still don’t have a country’: The southern African settler diaspora after decolonisation
- Jean Smith 156

PART III – Decolonising expertise
8 Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana
- Sophie Mew 177

9 More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana
- Viviana d’Auria 196

10 Designing change: Coins and the creation of new national identities
- Catherine Eagleton 222

11 What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia’s cultural decolonisation
- Rachel Leow

Index