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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"postcolonial literature"”.
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Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature
… Through textual analysis of selected colonial/postcolonial, I explored Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel, Purple Hibiscus; Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin; Olaudah Equiano's autobiography, The Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written …
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"And if Men Might also Imitate her Virtues" An Examination of Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Hagiographies of the Female Saints of Ely and Their Role in the Creation of Historic Memory
… and political criticism by examining them as postcolonial discourse.In it, I study the hagiographies written about the royal female saints of Ely by the Flemish monk Goscelin of Saint-Bertin in the late eleventh century as a form of postcolonial literature and memory creation. Goscelin was a …
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Beyond postcolonial: expression of self and exploration of the infinite in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges
<p>"Studies of postcolonial literature often focus on works that pertain to the East such as African or Indian nations. Written works such as Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and film such as Bollywood or Nollywood offer perspective for students of English Literature on the struggle of Eastern …
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Je traduis donc je suis: l'impossible entre-deux des fictions créolitaires
… posed by the prose writing of two French postcolonial Caribbean writers whose claim to a different identity is embedded within the coloniser’s language. Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant ‘translate’ their Creole selves into their French narrative prose in order to articulate the …
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From the Postcolonial to the Transnational: Issues of Identity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
… The approach used is one that draws on postcolonial theory and takes a "transnational" perspective. The central argument asserts that Ondaatje's text moves beyond the concept of a postcolonial literature of "resistance", into an area that requires a theory of "process" rather than …
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Aging well: Shaping age identities in the literature of the British welfare state
… genealogy of old age and argues that British literature offers both a systematic challenge to the regulatory models of the life course solidified during the twentieth century and emerging from the welfare state, as well as a necessary caveat concerning recent processes that individualize, …
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Negotiating the ambivalent construction of 'coloured' identity, in relation to the work of Malika Ndlovu and the Cape Town-based Black Women's Writers Collective, WEAVE
… of their writings around 'Coloured' identity in postcolonial theory, in order to examine constructions of self and other. Chapter one introduces the reader to the Black woman writer, Malika Ndlovu and the collective Women's Education and Artistic Voice Expression (WEAVE), of which Malika Ndlovu …
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Decolonizing the Mind with Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe: Searching for a Voice in Postcolonial African Literature
<p>Any discussion of postcolonial African literature requires consideration of both the inherent diversity of “African” and the complex history of colonialism throughout Africa. Ngugi wa Thiong’o claims there are “broad affinities” among the diverse peoples of sub-Saharan Africa which allow for a …
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Locating the Destitute: Place in Postcolonial Fiction (V.S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Octavia Butler)
… category, I question the tendency of mainstream postcolonial criticism to exchange the forceful binarism of the anti-colonial struggle for a largely discursive "interstitial" analysis. I focus, instead, on the conceptual possibilities opened for postcolonial theory by the postmodern "spatial …
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Itinerant narratives: travel, identity and literary form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction
… and as a renowned critic in the field of postcolonial literature might also account for the ways in which his fiction often deals with the recovery of suppressed voices and histories. Drawing on a number of different cultural theorists such as Edward Said, James Clifford, and Caren Kaplan …
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The Loss Of Identity In Emily Bronte‘S Wuthering Heights and K. S. Maniam‘S The Return in relation to communication issues: A critical analysis
… became one of the most critical issues in postcolonial literature as its crisis existed in all postcolonial communities. The purpose of this study is to explore the loss of identity that individual encounters during the process of searching for an identity. This is because lack of …
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Investigating the Problematic of Migrant Identity in South-Asian and Arab Postcolonial Fiction in English: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
… principally relating to displacement, exile, postcoloniality, and cultural hybridity. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s work, I approach the problematic nature of the construction of migrant identity in terms of being ‘fluid’, ‘dynamic’, and constantly unstable. The primary sources comprise a body of …
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(Dis)Remembering the slave mother: shame, trauma, and identity in the novels of Michelle Cliff and Zoë Wicomb
The 'new' nationalisms that have developed in postcolonial Jamaica and South Africa invite the reclamation of the slave mother, while simultaneously 'cleansing' her body of slavery's atrocities for the purpose of national healing. Michelle Cliff's Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven, and Zoë Wicomb's …
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Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973
… its “others” and thus reproduced itself. If postcolonial literature has often framed the “Orient” as a Western construction, the history narrated in this dissertation is an opportunity to re-examine such power relations in a modernizing yet non-capitalist and non-Western context. In treating …
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Writing Away: Old Affinities and New Itineraries in Contemporary African Writing
… to the ‘natural synthesis’ that marked early postcolonial writing, the chapters on Gappah and Osondu highlight the inherent simultaneity and affiliative possibilities in the narrative of historical encounter in Africa. The chapter on Mohlele considers the movement away from writing back to …
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An expression of Guyanité: the writings of Serge Patient and Elie Stéphenson in the (re-) creation of a national literary allegory
In an academic sense, the history and literature of French Guiana remains largely obscure, overlooked, and unexplored. In the study that follows, an exploration of the history, demographics, and literary production, and the legacies of colonial discourse as they pertain specifically to the French …
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Haunted Homelands: The Ghosts of Partition in Pakistan, India and Palestine
… contemporary impacts. Haunted Homelands uses literature to widen the discourse of comparative Partition studies, situating the subjective, intimate and imaginative alongside the political and national, showing how these domains all continue to be populated with Partitions’ ghosts. I draw on …
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Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature
… of African storytelling tropes and characters in postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature. It argues that Afro-Caribbean writers deliberately utilize these tropes in order to separate themselves from a vestigial European cultural presence. The three main tropes and characters studied in this thesis …
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Restoring the Earth: South African Literature and Environmental Justice
This dissertation investigates the ability of literature to enrich our understanding of environmental justice in South Africa. The aim of the project is to explore how literature and other forms of cultural imagining have provided a productive medium with which to conceptually reconfigure relations …
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
… authors and theorists. While current postcolonial theory seems to be at stake with operationalizing many of its terms and concepts, the application of Afrocentric methods can help answering severe allegations raised by a number of critics against this discourse. Issues concerning …
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