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Pázmány Papers – Journal of Languages and CulturesPostcolonial theory over the years has become an inflated term. The field of study that initially dealt with literatures originating in regions with a colonial past gradually grew to encompass broad social, political or cultural aspects arising in diverse societies with no colonial history.
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Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2012 Introduction, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller Part I Cinemas of Empire Introduction to Part I, Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller 1. Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema: Kif Tebbi, the Conquest of Libya, and the Assault on the Nomadic, Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2. Blackface, Faciality, and Colony Nostalgia in 1930s Empire Films, Julie Codell 3.
Daniele Comberiati
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Deconstructing Authority with Humor - The Cultural Adaptation and Reinvention of Women’s Discourse in Stand-Up Comedy of China [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 This paper explores the adaptation and alienation of Western postmodern approaches to female empowerment in China through an analysis of female discourse in the stand-up comedy industry.
Cao Jiahe
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The Imperative of Phronetic Education for Practicing Freedom in Light of the Bible’s Literary Discourse [PDF]
Phainomena, 2019 The article intends to investigate the relationship between the gift of pondering and human freedom. We aim to prove that phronetic education is a prerequisite for the practicing of freedom in reflective thinking, and thus helps the human subject to ...
Małgorzata Hołda
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From Global Studies to Global Humanities
Humanities, 2023 In contrast to the field of global studies, which has seen spectacular expansion and institutionalisation since the turn of the twenty-first century, there have to date been only a few attempts to promote or institutionalise global humanities as a field ...
Stefan Amirell
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“Hollywood is no place for idealists”: Hollywood as Dystopia in Cinema and Fiction
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2020 The following article deals with the representation of Hollywood as a dystopian place, for women in particular, where glamour is a utopian façade for both literal and figurative corruption, where the lifespan of an actress is severely limited and the ...
Tomasz Fisiak
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The Making of the “Malay Pirate” in Early Modern European Thought
Humanities, 2020 This article traces the long historical background of the nineteenth-century European notion of the Malay as a human “race” with an inherent addiction to piracy.
Stefan Eklöf Amirell
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Alien nation: contemporary art and black Britain [PDF]
, 2011 About the book: This fascinating text introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates.
Wainwright, Leon
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The foundations of a nation : framing Pakistan from 1940-1971 through international relations theory and postcolonialism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores the emerging integration of international relations theory with postcolonial scholarship and uses Pakistan’s state formation and history as a case study. It is argued that international relations theory privileges European experiences
Orme, Joshua Charles
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Subverting the Nation-State Through Post-Partition Nostalgia: Joginder Paul’s Sleepwalkers
Humanities, 2019 With the advent of the Progressive Writers Movement, Urdu Literature was marked with a heightened form of social realism during the Partition of British India in 1947.
Amrita Ghosh
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