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Postcolonial Literatures as Disrespected Literatures?
Altre Modernità, 2019 This essay focuses on the challenges as well as the joys of reading postcolonial literary texts that are composed and printed in multiple, alternating languages.
Simona Bertacco
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Postcolonial literature: between hegemonic occidental decoding and reframing mechanisms [PDF]
Akofena, 2023 : If the postcolonial theory was specialized in looking at the literature of peoples who suffered exclusion, alienation and marginalization, there is no doubt that it sought in one way or another to decipher, abolish and demolish the code of Western ...
D. Hadjer DRIF & D. Antar OUSADI
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THE LIMITS OF TRANSLATING POSTCOLONIAL EXPERIENCE INTO A FOREIGN CULTURE [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2020 In this twofold study, I will focus on the exilic/ diasporic Nigerian-born black British author Ben Okri as a postcolonial author reflecting the issues of postcolonial literature in his novel The Famished Road from a translational point of view.
N. Berrin Aksoy
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البصيرة, 2022 Universally, Postcolonial literature initiates certain disciplines and numerous subject matters which were dared to speak before. In recent times observe the change in behaviors and approaches towards multiplicity, spiritual beliefs, and literature ...
Farkhanda Yousaf, Humaira Ahmad
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The Implication of Indigenous Folk Memory in Lakdas Wikkrama Sinha’s Poetry [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2022 The present article examines the place of and search for a pre-colonial poetics embedded in indigenous folk memory in the writing of Lakdas Wikkrama Sinha, a leading postcolonial Sri Lankan poet.
Vihanga Perera
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The Genesis of Violence and Self-Destruction in George Lamming’s Water With Berries
مجلة 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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Postkoloniální pohled na Finsko prizmatem literární vědy – historie, současná situace, kritická reflexe [PDF]
Gender a Výzkum, 2017 Postcolonial theories have been applied in various contexts all over the globe. The article deals with the ways postcolonial thought, especially in combination with gender concerns, has been used in Finnish literary studies. I look at the broader problem
Viola Parente-Čapková
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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES: CONTACT ZONES
Іноземна філологія, 2022 The paper discusses the expedience and eff ectiveness of applying tenets of Postcolonial Theory for researching history and the current state of American literature.
Vysotska, Natalia
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Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020 One of the central claims made on behalf of postcolonial literature by critics and theorists of postcolonial literature is that this literature highlights the cultural identity of the different nations and communities it represents.
Faisal Nazir
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Zwischen Ver- und Entortung. Der ‚dritte Raum‘ in ausgewählten Texten der Post-DDR-Literatur
Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2022 The German unification process took for more than thirty years ago and still there is no consistency in German literary studies in how to define literature that has been produced in East Germany after 1989.
Ilse Nagelschmidt
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