Revisiting Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” through the Lens of Post-Colonial Ecocriticism [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2021 This paper is an attempt to break away from the canonical reading of George Orwell’s most celebrated essay “Shooting an Elephant” and analyze it from the perspective of post-colonial ecocriticism.
Sami Hossain Chisty
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Carnets, 2010 The Fifth Empire myth sustained by the Estado Novo finds in Portuguese Colonial Literature a priviledged means of expression. Here the construction of the national myth is made up of concrete structures (railways, properties, etc...) whose realist ...
Agnès Levécot
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Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world matters.
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
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Postcolonial Study of Cameron’s Avatar
Crossings, 2011 James Cameron’s Avatar (2010) is a movie based on the experiences of different paradigms of post colonialism which emerge as a reaction to the colonial discourses in the history of theory.
Md. Sadat Zaman Khan
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Globalisation masculinities, empire building and forced prostitution: a critical analysis of the gendered impact of the neoliberal economic agenda in post-invasion/occupation Iraq [PDF]
, 2015 Adopting a transnational feminist lens and using a political economy approach, this article addresses both the direct and indirect consequences of the 2003 war in Iraq, specifically the impact on civilian women.
Ali-Ali N. +21 more
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Art Museums in Australia: A Personal Retrospect [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2011 A survey of, and reflections on, the growth of art museums in Australia based on personal experience and involvement. It starts with the early art collections and state galleries and their organisation.
Daniel Thomas
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Migration to Postcolonial London: Zaide Smith White Teeth and Hanif Kureishi The Budha of Suberbia / Sömürgecilik Sonrası Londra’ya Göç: Zaide Smith White Teeth ve Hanif Kureishi The Budha of Suberbia [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2018 According to Edward Said, ‘colonialism’ means regional invasion and settlement (2003, s.8). Post Colonialism can be described as the opposite of colonialism. That is, those who come from the old colonies may try to invade and settle the region.
Nazan Tutaş*
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Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021 The paper argues that twentieth-century (post)coloniality was a multi-centric and poly-peripheral space and as such calls for a different, more complex geo-cultural and historical portrayal than the one provided by mainstream postcolonialism ...
Bogdan Ștefănescu
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Decolonizing Information Narratives: Entangled Apocalyptics, Algorithmic Racism and the Myths of History [PDF]
, 2017 In what follows, some contemporary narratives about ‘the information society’ are interrogated from critical race theoretical and decolonial perspectives with a view to constructing a ‘counter-narrative’ purporting to demonstrate the embeddedness of ...
Ali, Syed Mustafa
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‘A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Hoermann, Raphael
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