Postcolonial Criticism
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TEACHING PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS ENEMIES is a distribution of my original doctoral dissertation "Language Tangle : Predicting and Facilitating Outcomes in Language Education" ( http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804346 ) with a new title better... more
Various mass media products, even those that are expected to disseminate reality, have become sources of images and imaginaries of various groups, ethnicities, genders, and cultures. Environmental documentaries, which are supposedly based... more
The way Marco Polo portrays the “Other” is profoundly different from the way Ibn Battuta reports his experiences in the East. First, Marco has traveled to a world that is characterized by styles of life different from those of the West.... more
The film Dirty Pretty Things (2002) reflects some of the typical consequences of both colonization and decolonization and one of its most important themes is the portrayal of illicit trafficking in organs of illegal immigrants and asylum... more
Como “notas ao pé da página”, o artigo retorna a Uma literatura nos trópicos e a seu mais célebre ensaio, “O entre-lugar do discurso latino-americano”, para articulá- los a uma sequência de ensaios posteriores publicados pelo autor... more
Post-colonialism, as a body of theory, reveals the continuous effects and outcomes of colonization. It is a counter-discourse which puts forth the inextricable relationships between European nations and the societies they have... more
This thesis stems from the observation that there exists a problem of recognizing Indian thought as philosophy, and, by extension, including it in the field of academic philosophy in the West. The question I examine is regarding the role... more
Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tarkastella kolmen igbo-nigerialaisen kirjailijan romaania igbojen keskeisen kosmologisen elementin (chi’n) kautta. Tutkimus on osa postkoloniaalista kirjallisuustutkimusta, jonka tarkoituksena on selvittää,... more
In this very paper, I have examined the authors, characters, and historical background, and tried to display how the characters are portrayed in accordance with the context which the works were written
Exploring Quicksand. Translation Criticism and Literary Criticism in the Face of the Petrification of Contemporary World Literature In contemporary discussions on the condition and further perspectives of World Literature, the mood of... more
Numa tentativa de investigar a representação de minorias na Literatura Inglesa, este projeto procura analisar três contos – "Uma vez na vida", "Fim de ano" e "Em Terra", da escritora Jhumpa Lahiri, do livro Unaccostumed Earth, de 2008,... more
The essay discusses the ideas of "The Postponed Revival, or Maps of Atlanis" by Galina Babak and Aleksander Dmitriev from a postcolonial point of view.
This article identifies how scholars have displaced antagonism within histories of Sikhism and South Asian Studies more broadly. In contrast to this displacement, this article foregrounds antagonism by taking into account a third element... more
Combining key insights from aesthetic theory and various postcolonial critiques, this research looks into the aesthetics of revolt. Taking the recent and exceptional sequences of revolts in Tunisia as a case study and thus starting from... more
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In a recent paper on 1 Peter, David Horrell has argued that the long-running “Balch–Elliott debate” regarding the stance the author takes toward the values and ethos of his readers’s pagan social environment needs to be focussed more... more
Throughout his writing career, V.S. Naipaul has been exploring the contemporary repercussions for both colonizer and colonized of imperial colonial history, and his works have been a series of experiments in what the Barbadian novelist... more
Nesse artigo, buscamos mostrar as relações familiares criadas pela personagem Hema, na segunda parte do livro Terra Descansada (2009), de Jhumpa Lahiri, levando em conta a sua construção identitária, além da ideia de pertencimento... more
This article is a Postcolonial study about season of Migration to the North a novel written by Tayyeb Salih (the renowned Sudanese writer). The novel, season of migration to the north, is the most famous postcolonial Arabic novel which... more
Resumo: Observamos a sociedade barroca em Minas Gerais delineada pelo choque dos múltiplos modelos simbólicos, dos conflitos cotidianos e pela violência colonial socialmente reconhecida. Neste instável universo em equilíbrio dinâmico... more
This essay argues for a postcolonial humanism and a humanist postcolonial studies that is rooted in both the institutional and methodological space of the disciplinary humanities. I advance an argument for humanism and the method of... more
Review of "Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe. Critics, Artists, Movements, and their Publics". Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Adriano José Habed. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Poco a poco va ganando fuerza la necesidad de entender y estudiar los procesos coloniales en la Antigüedad desde una perspectiva que vaya más allá de las teorías aculturacionistas, lo que conlleva la necesidad de emplear enfoques teóricos... more
This engrossing volume takes us on a fascinating visual journey through the most groundbreaking and avant-garde art of the early 20th century to the present. Stunning, high-quality photographs of major artworks accompany illuminating... more
The Algerian Trilogy by Mohammed Dib, a renowned Algerian writer, is one of the most recognized literary works of the contemporary literature of his country. It provides the reader with an objective perspective of the Algerian society in... more
As Anne McClintock (1995) has observed, colonial discourse is not a monolithic entity. A colonial motif nonetheless exists in ‘The Tempest’ and the history of its reception. Yet, perceptions and variances of this theme have changed over... more
In seeking to answer the question why Poles are having difficulties in recognizing and critically describing their present postcolonial identity, the author refers to the notion of melancholia as an important interpretative category for... more
Resumo: Como “notas ao pé da página”, o artigo retorna a Uma literatura nos trópicos e a seu mais célebre ensaio, “O entre-lugar do discurso latino-americano”, para articulá-los a uma sequência de ensaios posteriores publicados pelo autor... more