Postcolonial Literature
Exploited Edens: paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature
... This thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and imperialism, of colonialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise economies is discourse labo[r] ...
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Postcolonial Literature and World Englishes: A Corpus-Based Approach of Modes of Representation of the Non-Standard in Writing
... The analysis of the representation of non-standardised linguistic features in literary texts, as undertaken in the present study, was approached through two major aspects, namely feature profiles and accuracy of ...
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Lindsey Collen’s narrative gift: a challenge to the commodification of African literature
... of postcolonial literature as she is a Marxist who believes that Marxism still has the capability to shift society towards equality and freedom (Allan ...
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STUDY OF POST-COLONIAL AND NON-FICTIONAL ESSAY BY ARNUDHATI ROY’S
... Postcolonial literature is a standout amongst the most significant movements in the contemporary history which has delivered amazing measure of inventive undertakings and basic theories in the ongoing ...
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The Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: History, Diaspora, Hybridity, Women
... history, literature and ...some postcolonial concepts such as the relationship between the role of women and postcolonial literature, history, Saidian Orientalism, diaspora and ...
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The Configuration of Gender and Identity in Nigerian Literature
... While some autobiographical writers in Nigeria assigned some inferior use of language to the woman, they assign the superior one to the man by making him a super-person. ‘An example of this situation is seen in Olusegun ...
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Reading, writing and understanding the postcolonial
... of postcolonial literary criticism, texts that seem to resist straightforward interpretation are sometimes kept at arms’ lengths as ...a postcolonial reading, it can be cast off elsewhere or left alone ...
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Representations of the Postcolonial State in the Childhood Metaphor in Selected Postcolonial Texts
... This research focused on childhood as a metaphor of the postcolonial state in the selected postcolonial texts namely, Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste , Nervous Conditions by Ts[r] ...
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Postcolonial reflections on sociology
... Postcolonial Reflections on Sociology Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Warwick and Linnaeus University Abstract: This contribution addresses the impact of postcolonial critiques on soc[r] ...
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Bilqis the Vampire Slayer : Sarwat Chadda's British Muslim Vampire Fiction
... Billi’s choice of weapon: her sword is a wakizashi, the weapon used by Japanese samurai. Billi is posited as a flâneur, walking the streets of London observing ‘its kaleidoscope of cultures and races’. She also learns ...
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1. Vietnamese Female Literature an Approach from Post- Colonial Consciousness
... said, postcolonial research in the case of Vietnam has been concerned by the researchers in the world, mostly focused to the subject of war and the consequences of the war for Viet Nam society, Vietnam as part of ...
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Postcolonial Playgrounds: Games and postcolonial culture
... Geography: Postcolonial Cultural Geographies (2002), post-colonial theorists vary greatly in the definitions they employ for demarcating post-colonialism as a ...
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PHILIPPINE INSTALLATION ART FROM 1970 TO 2008 AS THE DISCOURSE OF THE PHILIPPINE POSTCOLONIAL AVANT-GARDE
... Philippine postcolonial modernity in the installation ...Philippine postcolonial avant-garde movement thus emerged within the articulation of its “other” at this point the West the sets the empowerment of ...
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ENG 560 –Postcolonial Theory
... As we become increasingly immersed in the digital age, it may seem absurd to think of the book as a technological advance. And yet, the development of textual representation in the European west from scroll to codex to ...
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A postcolonial analysis of entrepreneurship in Africa
... Chilisa (2011) warns about the disturbing role of Anglo-European theory in framing research objectives in postcolonial settings. In this light, it therefore becomes the job of the researcher to avoid the use of ...
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Setting intertextuality and the resurrection of the postcolonial
... biography. Postcolonial theory does address the question of place, of how the postcolonial writer revises the empty space of colonialism and through writing and naming turns it into place; its concern is ...
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A Postcolonial Reading of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
... Prospero in this play represents a colonizer who takes control over the inhabitants of the island, Ariel and Caliban. His actions parallel the actions of the British colonizers: he calls the natives uncivilized and ...
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Caliban's Meaning: The Culture of Language
... For example, in the African postcolonial situation, a major expected value of official languages is to facilitate external communication. But considering the fact that communications with an external audience are ...
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Decolonising postcolonial thinking
... to postcolonial theory (Gilmartin and Berg’s analysis [Gilmartin, Berg, 2007], in particular, has already largely set the tone in this regard, and I see my own contribution very much in line with theirs 2 ), I ...
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The formation of postcolonial theory
... which colonial rule binds her colonies to herself, with a “primary object of promoting her economic advantages” (Nkrumah 1973:2). It is characterised by mechanisms involving power through direct conquest or through ...
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