Abstract

Introduction: Reframing cultures of decolonisation - Ruth Craggs and Claire Wintle Part I: Decolonising metropolitan cultures? 1. Black America and the overthrow of the European colonial order: the tragic voice of Richard Wright - Bill Schwarz 2. Humanist modernism: Ralph Hotere and 'New Commonwealth Internationalism' - Damian Skinner 3. Henry Swanzy, Sartre's zombie? Black Power and the transformation of the Caribbean Artists Movement - Rob Waters 4. Anxiety abroad: austerity, abundance, and race in post-war visual culture - David C. Wall Part II: Performing decolonisation 5. The peasant armed: Bengal, Vietnam and transnational solidarities in Utpal Dutt's Invincible Vietnam - Abin Chakraborty 6. Cultural heritage as performance: re-enacting Angkorian grandeur in postcolonial Cambodia (1953-70) - Michael Falser 7. 'I still don't have a country': the southern African settler diaspora after decolonisation - Jean Smith Part III: Decolonising expertise 8. Managing the cultural past in the newly independent states of Mali and Ghana - Sophie Mew 9. More than tropical? Modern housing, expatriate practitioners and the Volta River Project in decolonising Ghana - Viviana d'Auria 10. Designing change: coins and the creation of new national identities - Catherine Eagleton 11. What colonial legacy? The Dewan Bahas dan Pustaka (House of Language) and Malaysia's cultural decolonisation - Rachel Leow Index

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