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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 Peter Hallward’s aggressively theoretical book, Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific, offers a focused reconceptualisation of some of the critical terms in contemporary postcolonial discourse.
Jessica Schagerl
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, 2011 For those familiar with Maori Studies, Ranginui Walker's Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End is one of those seminal texts that academics in the field return to time and time again. Its title reverberates with Achille Mbembe's construction of colonial peace as a 'war without end.' Often peace and war are states that humans find themselves 'in,'
Page, Tiffany, Hokowhitu, Brendan
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L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2014 This article combines postcolonial and literary approaches in an analysis of literary texts about the Haitian Revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Anja Bandau
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Francosphères, 2012 If Paris is constantly being reinvented as a (post)colonial métropole, doing so inevitably adds to the historical conflation of Paris with France. Using examples from contemporary literature and film, this article calls for a remapping of France's ...
Lydie Moudileno
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Auto-destruction or auto-reproduction?
Francosphères, 2019 This article addresses the literary aesthetics of extreme violence in Yasmina Khadra’s A quoi rêvent les loups. In Khadra’s descriptions of violence a flood of words erupt which graphically detail the horrors of the war in Algeria in the 1990s.
Julianna Blair Watson
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Qualitative Research in Education, 2013 This is a brief introduction to frame a special issue on reading texts, subtexts, and contexts in the struggle for decolonization. It provides transnational perspectives from Colombia, Korea, the Philippines, South Africa, and a Bhutanese refugee ...
Stephanie L. Daza
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Reimagining Matthean economic ethics in postcolonial South Africa
In die SkrifligThis article investigates the intersection of economic justice and postcolonialism within post-1994 South Africa. Amid growing discourse on economic freedom and justice in both political and religious spheres, this article aims to elucidate the Matthean ...
Mphumezi Hombana
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The Postcolonial Galaxy or a Galactic Postcoloniality:
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2021 The Foucauldian notion of the “productive” component of power manifested in the semblance of autonomy in “transparent” subjects unsettles Francis Fukuyama’s aspirations about information technology that breaks the “monopoly over information.” Knowledge of the colonial subject in the Foucauldian paradigm and its indispensable role in the manifestation ...
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Postcolonial Playgrounds: Games and postcolonial culture
Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2010 Many games touch upon issues that are related to the postcolonial culture we live in. Be it in the shape of referring to how it has generated ethnic differences, subscribing to (post) capitalist values of winning and gaining, or by employing militarist strategies that have been partly shaped our colonial histories, cultural notions that are related to ...
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Postcolonial Travel Writing and Postcolonial Theory [PDF]
, 2017 First paragraph: In recent scholarship, the convergence of the words postcolonial, travel and writing has led to a series of debates that revolve around, but are not limited to, the representation of otherness, the power of speaking of and for a foreign culture, as well as the hierarchies embedded in discourses of difference.
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