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“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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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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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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Discursive Construction of Subject and Ideological Fantasy in Postcolonial Indonesia
This paper tries to explain the contestation at the discursive construction level of the subject. The subject in question is Indonesia in postcolonial era. The problem that will be answered was how the ideological fantasy constructed its subject.
Aprinus Salam
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This article deals with the concepts of exile, otherness and hybrid identity in Princesses by F. Gallaire as an example of a feminine writing of the so-called double Exile.
Aicha Haroun El Yacoubi
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Screening postcolonial Intellectuals: cinematic engagements and postcolonial activism [PDF]
This special issue proposes new ways of seeing and thinking about postcolonial intellectuals through the frame of transnational screens. For this purpose, the issue develops around the twofold notion of the intellectual as a filmmaker and the ...
Ponzanesi, Sandra, Mendes, Ana Cristina
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Waste colonialism and metabolic flows in island territories
Islands are tightly connected to globalized material flows, with specific constraints and vulnerabilities. They are not closed metabolic loops of consumption, production, and waste, favorable to the circular economy.
Laurence Rocher
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BUILDING IDENTITY IN GLOBAL REALITY: A POSTCOLONIAL STUDY ON RAJAA ALSANEA'S BANAT AR-RIYADH
This study aims to examine the novel Banaat ar-Riyadh (Girls of Riyadh) from the perspective of globalization using a postcolonial approach. This novel was written by Rajaa Alsanea, a Riyadhi girl who moved to the United States of America and then ...
Hindun Ichsan
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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This paper addresses the theme of transgression in two texts: “Echo Twins” by Kuwaiti author Mai Al-Nakib and The God of Small Things by Indian author Arundhati Roy.
Shahd Alshammari
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