Search results for "postcolonial"

“Something Hungry and Wild is Still Calling”: Post-Apartheid Gothic

2012

International audience; The postcolonial Gothic is now a mode widely covered by literary criticism, but South Africa has often been left out of investigations. This paper argues that only now that apartheid has ended can writers and critics explore how the Gothic manifests itself in South African literature. Showing possible connections between the postcolonial Gothic and recent South African fiction, it seeks to define a new category that can help define the contours of the literary field in South Africa: post-apartheid Gothic.

20th-century Baltic drama: comparative paradigms

2014

The paper pays attention to the issues of commensurability in the development of 20th-century Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian literatures. It focuses upon thematic and aesthetic patterns of Baltic drama during this time period which is further subdivided into two parts, the first and the second half of the 20th century. The discussion about the genesis of Baltic drama during the late 19th, early 20th century is followed by an analysis of the impact of the nation states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania upon the institutionalization and development of drama and theatre during the 1920s and 1930s. Special attention is then paid to the notion of socialist realism as the ideological tool of So…

“Changing Landscapes, Transforming Histories: A Reading of Caryl Phillips’ A Distant Shore”, in Englishes, vol. 12, n. 34, 2008

2008

Altérités dans l'expatriation lointaine : dialogisme des imaginaires collectifs et des discours individuels

2015

In a postcolonial context, this research looks into the itineraries of French expatriates, from a former colonial empire, in Malaysia, a former British colony. The autobiographical discourses of the French expatriates, blogs, research writings and research interviews, are analyzed in terms of the articulation between individual experiences and collective representations, interrogating how experiencing alterity, as well as writing or speaking about it, participates in the construction of identities. The discourse analysis is dialogical and takes in consideration a larger field of discourses: the centuries‐long orientalist discourse as theorized by Bill Ashcroft, Tzvetan Todorov or Edward Sai…

Origins, Journey, and Home: The Issue of Identity in the Work of Three Diasporic “African-Indian” Women Writers

2014

This chapter considers the issue of identity in postcolonial literature. It challenges the representations of center/metropolis and margin/periphery as a one-to-one link. The three writers considered here are located within a context of intra-colonial displacements from India. Ananda Devi, Natacha Appanah, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown offer a blurred vision of identity, and share some important common points: the three of them define the identity as fluid and multiple. The identities they speak about are the results of a personal negotiation with numerous and diversified external stimuli. Finally, they show a similar relationship with the themes of the origins, journey, and “home”.

Reliģiskais simbolisms Luīzes Erdrikas romānos

2018

Šī pētījuma autors analizē, kādā veidā tiek izmantoti reliģiskie simboli Luīzes Erdrikas tetraloģijā, kas sastāv no romāniem “Mīlas Medicīna”, “Pēdas”, “Biešu Karaliene” un “Bingo Pils”. Reliģisko simbolismu analizēšana viņas romānos ļaus saprast Amerikas indiāņu sarežģīto identitātes veidošanās procesu Amerikas kolonizācijas apstākļos. Pētījuma mērķis ir analizēt, kādos veidos Erdrika izmanto reliģisko simbolismu minētajā tetraloģijā. Pētījuma metodes ir padziļinātā lasīšana, stāstījuma analīze un salīdzinošā interpretatīvā metode, balstoties uz postkoloniālās, Amerikas Indiāņu, stāstījuma analīzes un kulturvēsturiskā diskursa analīzes metodoloģijām. Šajā pētījumā izmantotās metodoloģijas …

“Le voci dell’Africa nelle lettere italiane”

2007

By referring to the postcolonial and diaspora studies, the essay analyzes the rise of a multicultural literature in Italy where Africa's literary voices contribute to a transformation of the national canon, opening it up to the contemporary notion of a transnational literature that crosses languages, territories and cultures.

Mediterranean crossings in the fiction of Marina Warner: The Queen of Sheba, Rahab and Leto

2009

“She Isn’t Going to Give Up”: Women’s Resilience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane – A Feminist Reading

2019

Abstract While Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane is most often analyzed from the vantage points of postcolonialism as a text dealing primarily with the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrant community in London, it is difficult, if not downright impossible, to overlook the crucial role women and feminine resilience (in the face of not only patriarchy, but also racism, religion and social unrest) play in the novel. In actual fact, the story can much easier be read as the plight of women in their quest for self-determination and identity than as a novel about cultural clashes in the multicultural metropolis. The present essay sets out to prove that feminism is actually at the forefront of Ali’s nove…

The Mediterranean, or Where Africa Does (Not) Meet Italy: Andrea Segre's A Sud di Lampedusa (2006)

2013

The essay studies the crossing (or "burning") of the hundred thousand Africans who have traversed the Mediterranean in the past decades to look for better life conditions in Europe, through an analysis of Andrea Segre's documentaries, in particular South of Lampedusa (2006).