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Narrative ethics in postcolonial fiction
When considering the ethico-political task of postcolonial criticism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak claims that "ethics is the experience of the impossible, " and that "deconstruction cannot form a political program of any kind. " Both these ideas motivate the central question of this thesis: if ethics …
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Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial
"Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial" is a project discussing the ways in which, two Liberian presidential candidates (re)construct and perform their sociopolitical identities in order to build constituency in the postwar context. I am mainly concerned here with the ways in which Ellen Johnson …
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Performing National Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
… and enforcement of official national identity in postcolonial Indonesia. More specifically, I intend to analyze how the national landscape functions as a cultural practice and expose the strategies employed by the state to encourage citizens to perform various identities within the context of …
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A Postcolonial Critique of Tear Gas Use
… domestically? And in what ways can insights from postcolonialism aid our understanding of how the use of tear gas on certain groups has been rendered possible? Through looking at how the function of tear gas, specifically against particular (frequently dehumanized) groups, has been shaped, this …
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Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction
… in literary studies. The undertaking of a postcolonial debate on literary interpretation is a necessary step toward readjusting postcolonial study into the paradigm of critical analysis prioritized by Marxism. Here, I demonstrate that both The Three-Body Problem (2014) from China and Dawn …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… and mental disabilities permeate colonial and postcolonial Ireland in the wake of a surge of Irish nationalism demanding, as W.B. Yeats writes in Cathleen Ni Houlihan, that a true Irishman “must give [Ireland] all” to the point of martyrdom. In bringing together disability studies and …
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The Nigerian novel and the postcolonial city
… is a critical inquiry into the nature of the postcolonial African city as represented in fiction. It examines how the Nigerian novel represents the postcolonial African city and the extent to which it confirms or contests the dominant paradigms of scholarship in urban studies. In it, …
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National consciousness in Postcolonial Nigerian children's literature
… written literature for ages six to fourteen in postcolonial Nigeria as a catalyst for national transformation in the wake of colonial rule. My objective is to reveal the perceived possibilities and pitfalls contained in Nigerian children's literature (specifically books published between 1960 …
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Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
… which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history and challenge to consider the practice possibilities for Pākehā counsellors when they work with clients and …
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Island Rewrites: Postcolonial Caribbean, British and Irish Revisions.
… this concept, the discussion engages with postcolonial theorists such as Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon and Edward Said - as well as the extant body of literature that surrounds postcolonial studies - in order to investigate the occurrences of rewriting, response and adaptation, and the ways …
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The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism
… encounter the formerly colonized world. The "postcolonial playground" avails the non-Western world as a theatre for recreation and meaning-making, an engagement which renders locals as accessories to an experience, perpetuating colonial-era power dialectics that continue to privilege the …
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa
… the persistence of religion in colonial and postcolonial narratives of confinement and exclusion. I begin by first exploring the history of religion in relation to colonial representations of Africa(ns) as savage and, situating the narratives of confinement and exclusion in the context of …
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Postcolonial Criticism and the Gospel of Mark: An Assessment
Postcolonial criticism is a relatively new approach to New Testament studies. This methodology focuses on ideological power struggles between natives and imperial forces. In the first century CE the Roman empire exercised political authority over Jewish authorities such as the High Priest and the …
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POSTCOLONIAL TRAGEDY: JAMAICA AND SOUTH AFRICA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
This dissertation argues that political tragedy--the circumstance in which the efforts of political heroes and their people's struggle to effect their societal ideals achieve the opposite outcomes with politically nihilistic consequences--is a feature of the recent attempts to establish viable …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
… through the literature produced in these postcolonial regions. Two primary worldviews emerge in these texts. The first focuses on the continued presence of imperial powers in the South and their culpability in eruptions of violence. The second shifts to modes of domination emerging within …
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
… of Baklava (2005), I argue that contemporary postcolonial fiction displays a patently self-conscious, self-parodic engagement with the constitutive paradoxes of the discourse of exoticism, especially when this discourse takes the Arab figure as its subject. I avail myself of "postexotic …
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Urban Space in Postcolonial British Literature
… by marginalized and minority communities in Postcolonial Britain in the face of political and social dispossession. It looks at Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen (1975), Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1989), and Zadie Smith’s NW (2012), along with each text’s discrete political …
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