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Introduction to the Special Issue on Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies

open access: yes, 2018
The treatment of colonialism in video games, barring a few notable exceptions, is marked by a Western and, specifically, late 19th-century imperialist bias.
Souvik Mukherjee, E. Hammar
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Title: Planetary loves : Spivak, postcoloniality, and theology Author: Stephen D Moore; Mayra Rivera. Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Lai, Alan Ka Lun
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The split of reason and the postcolonial backlash [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Let’s not forget that 1492, one of the first landmarks of Modernity, was both the year of the conquest of the Americas and of the fall or of the Reconquista of Granada, both of inner and outer ethnic cleansing of the nation state; that the national state
Ivekovic, Rada
core  

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

SOME TRENDS OF THE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES DEVELOPMENT

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2017
Referring to the question of what the field of contemporary postcolonial studies represents, the author explores their institutional development, noting a number of research centers, as well as some aspects of adaptation in the Post-Soviet space.
S. E. Golubkina
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Cosmopolitanism [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper was presented as part of Rethinking the Postcolonial in the Age of the War on Terror joint symposium, by the MnM Centre in conjunction with the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Diasporas and Reconciliation Studies, at the University of South ...
Barry Hindess
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Postcolonial Hermeneutics: Concepts and Contribution to Understanding Socio-Religious Problems in Southeast Asia

open access: yesIKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018
Scrutiny of unequal power-relations between the “East” and the “West” in politics, culture, economy, and various aspects of life is the concern of postcolonial studies.
Novita Dewi
doaj   +1 more source

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