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Evangelical Historiography in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2022
To better understand how a particular community understands its story, we look at the philosophy, aesthetics, and historical–cultural contexts of those who have written its history. This article analyses an example of colonial era historiography entitled
Clark David Andrew
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Concurrences in Contemporary Travel Writing: Postcolonial Critique and Colonial Sentiments in Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate all the Brutes and Terra Nullius

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014
Recent research highlights contemporary travel writing’s complicity in global politics, and the genre is claimed to reproduce the discourses that constitute our understanding of the world.
Piia K. Posti
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The Genesis of Violence and Self-Destruction in George Lamming’s Water With Berries

open access: yesمجلة الآداب, 2018
This paper examines George Lamming’s Water with Berries, a postcolonial text, to reveal the counter literary strategy used by the writer to redefine the colonized against the Western cultural hegemony and the attempts done by the colonial writers to ...
Basma Harbi Mahdi Al-Azawi
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Imposition, adoption, and resistance in Lynne Kutsukake’s The Translation of Love: A postcolonial approach

open access: yesEdulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2020
This paper, which is under Transnational American Studies and Postcolonial Studies, aims to analyze a process of creating a colonial culture which involves cultural imposition, adoption, and resistance in Lynne Kutsukake’s The Translation of Love.
Bhakti Satrio Nugroho   +1 more
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Être musulmane dans un système scolaire dominé par des chrétiens : expériences d’élèves tanzaniennes (années 1930-années 1970)

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2023
This article looks at the schooling experiences of Tanzanian Muslim women to analyze the contradictions in the nation-building of this East African country.
Florence Wenzek
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Postcolonial Hermeneutics: Concepts and Contribution to Understanding Socio-Religious Problems in Southeast Asia

open access: yesIKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018
Scrutiny of unequal power-relations between the “East” and the “West” in politics, culture, economy, and various aspects of life is the concern of postcolonial studies.
Novita Dewi
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Loin du monde, l’île est le monde : Les écotones insulaires de l’océan Indien entre créolisation et frontières liquides

open access: yesLiterator, 2022
Far from the world, the island is the world: The island ecotones of the Indian Ocean between creolisation and liquid borders. Due to their specific geography and plural histories, the island societies of the south-western Indian Ocean are characterised ...
Markus Arnold
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Postcoloniality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
“Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular.
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"I’m painting death"

open access: yesCompendium, 2022
Today, world literature can be understood as including the literatures of the world, especially those that have been underrepresented before. It may also be associated with other arts such as painting and examine intertextual and intermedial relations to
Kathrin Neis
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“There’s some colonial in my postcolonial”: Community Development Workers’ Perspectives on Faith-based Service Learning in a Guatemalan Context

open access: yesEngaged Scholar Journal, 2017
Faith-based relief and development organization Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has been involved in the country of Guatemala since 1976 when they responded to relief needs in light of the devastating earthquake at the time.
Geraldine Balzer, Luke Heidebrecht
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