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On Postcolonial Narratology and Reading Postcolonial Literature Narratologically
The article discusses this special issue’s leading question ‘Why narratology?’ with regard to a specific group of texts, for which a separate version of narratological inquiry has been proposed as part of the diversification of narratologies: post ...
Sandra Heinen
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Postcolonial Literatures as Disrespected Literatures?
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]
: 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]
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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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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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
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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Italian Postcolonial Literature
Italian postcolonial literature has been one of the most historically relevant, culturally incisive, and artistically revitalizing phenomena to emerge in the past twenty-five years.
Caterina Romeo
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Postkoloniální pohled na Finsko prizmatem literární vědy – historie, současná situace, kritická reflexe [PDF]
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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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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