Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : representation matters / Anette Hoffmann and Esther Peeren -- 1. Concepts of postcolonial identity : contingent articulations. Alterity and identities: the paradoxes of authenticity / Sudeep Dasgupta ; Insularity and identity at odds in Martinique : 1973 to 2004 / Marc Brudzinski ; The West between culture(s) and collective identity : notes for a present problematic / Nimrod Ben-Cnaan ; Ubuntu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and South African national identity / Hanneke Stuit ; Resistance or compliance? The problem of Orientalism in Osman Hamdi's paintings / G�ulru �Cakmak -- 2. Relational histories. Romani identity formation and the globalization of Holocaust discourse / Huub van Baar ; Similarity and difference : the appearance of suffering at the Strokestown Famine Museum / Niamh Ann Kelly -- 3. Rethinking origins and indigeneity. Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabar�e : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. Reinventing tradition. Performative constructions of female identity at a Hindu ritual: some thoughts on the agentive dimension / Beatrix Hauser ; "We are like fish that were reeled in" : peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe / Guy Thompson ; Silence, absence, loss : Chineseness in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen ; Moving identities : mythology and metaphor in Andr�e Brink's Praying mantis / Saskia Lourens.

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