Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Ruth Craggs is a Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography at King's College, London

Claire Wintle is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton