Post-Colonial Cities in the Global Era: A Comparative Study of Mumbai and Accra

2004 ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Richard Grant ◽  
Jan Nijman
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Era

COMPARING GOPINATH MOHANTY WITH MULK RAJ ANANDFROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RESISTANCE LITERATURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khagendra Sethi ◽  
Tithi Ray
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Political Exclusion

This article aims at a comparative study of GopinathMohanty with Mulk Raj Anand. The article will analyse and examine the works of both the writers from the perspective of Resistance literature. Both of them have significant contribution to Dalit literature. These two writers are non-dalits. But they have comprehensive understanding on the plight of these miserable sections who are on the margin. They have tried their best to fight for their rights. Along with that they have created for them a distinct cultural identity by dismantling their colonial identity. They have raised voice against the ethical issues like bonded labour, economical exploitation, socio-political exclusion, land displacement and sexual harassment which were immanent in dalit’s life in colonial and post-colonial India.

scholarly journals From Baranowski to Baranauskas, from James to Ngũgĩ: Post-Colonial Aspects of Linguistic Switch

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-245
Author(s):  
Paweł Bukowiec
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Post Colonial

The article attempts to perform a comparative study of the phenomenon of the so-called linguistic switch, i.e., a change of languages in which the writer creates his/her works. One side of the analysis focuses on nineteenth-century Lithuanian poets, represented mainly by Antanas Baranauskas, and the other on the contemporary Kenyan prose writer Ngu˜g˜ wa Thiong’o. The juxtaposition of ı such extremely distant authors: 1. allows a better understanding of the specificity of multilingualism in both eighteenth-century Lithuanian literature and contemporary fiction; 2. proves once again the universality of postcolonial sensitivity; 3. constitutes an attempt at comparative thinking in the context of world literature.

scholarly journals A Comparative Discourse on Media Practice in Colonial and Post-Colonial Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Ibitayo S. Popoola ◽  
Tosin A. Adesile ◽  
Ibrahim O. Odenike
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Political Journalism ◽  
Media Professionals ◽  
The Moment

This is a comparative study on media practice in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria. It covers journalism practice from 1920-2020. The study focuses on journalism practice during the days of nationalism-cum-political journalism era, led by Herbert Macaulay, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Mr Ernest SeseiIkoli, amongst others. The study adopts journalism during the colonial days, up to the time of independence in 1960, as foundation, and compares it to the modern day journalism practice at the moment. The thesis in the study is anchored on the probing question of establishing changes that have taken place in the profession over a period of 160 years. While providing fresh discussions on the current journalism practice as well as the daunting challenges facing media professionals in Nigeria today, the study provides groundbreaking recommendations to rescue journalism that is almost comatose in Nigeria today. The study uses free press theory as theoretical underpinning, and the key informants interview method.

The Domestication of Souls

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saúl Millán
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Domesticated Animals ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Animal Domestication ◽  
Tzotzil Maya

Following the distinction between horizontal and vertical shamanism originally proposed by Stephen Hugh-Jones, this article examines the concept of nagualism in different Mesoamerican indigenous societies and the role that animal domestication has played in these conceptions. Through a comparative study of indigenous societies like the Nahua, Huave, and Tzotzil Maya, different relationships between the human and animal worlds are analyzed in order to show the changes in ontological frameworks that took place during the colonial period, through the introduction of extensive livestock farming. As a protective institution, post-colonial nagualism developed in indigenous societies that have domesticated animals because farmers see their relationship with their flocks similarly to the connection between themselves and their protecting spirits.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 472-484
Author(s):  
Neil Macmaster
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rebel Governance ◽  
The Village ◽  
Organized Resistance ◽  
Indirect Rule

The book dismantles the conventional interpretation of the Algerian peasantry as incapable of organized resistance. The rural masses exercised dynamic forms of political autonomy, especially through the village assemblies. After 1918 the long established system of colonial indirect rule entered a phase of deepening crisis so that control of the peasantry by the intelligence state slipped away, providing an opportunity for the nationalists to take advantage of the subsequent power vacuum and, eventually, to create a form of ‘rebel governance’. After 1956 the attempts by counterinsurgents to replicate peasant organizations failed. The pattern located in the Chelif holds a key to our understanding of other regions of dispersed settlement in Algeria, and also for future comparative study of other insurrections, from Vietnam to Kenya. The enduring cohesion of the extended family that stood at the core of peasant organization and political autonomy survived through the disruption of the War of Independence and holds a key to the conservative forces at work in post-colonial Algeria.

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