Service Learning as Post-Colonial Discourse

This article is devoted to the analysis of literary representations of Galicia in two discourses of the region: Ukrainian and Polish. They are discussed on the basis of essays by Yurii Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk. For both writers, the narrative of Galicia, understood concurrently as a bordering and post-bordering space, is the starting point for reflection on the epistemology and ontology of Polish–Ukrainian borderlands and Central Europe. A disparity emerges from the perspectives of the two writers which can be described by way of the opposition city/province. Andrukhovych explores the palimpsestic and heterotopic character of the Galician urban sphere, while Stasiuk focuses on the most peripheral regions. The meaning generated by that difference evokes disparate ideological concepts regarding both former Galicia and Central Europe.

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Revisiting Indian Rouletted Ware and the impact of Indian Ocean trade in Early Historic south Asia

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00067065 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 84 (326) ◽

pp. 1043-1054 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Peter Magee

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Coastal Communities ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Indian Ocean Trade ◽

Merchant Class ◽

First Millennium ◽

The Impact ◽

Made In

Indian Rouletted Ware pottery is the iconic marker of the overseas reach of the subcontinent at the turn of the first millennium AD. In the mid twentieth century this was naturally seen as prompted by the contemporary Roman Empire, while the later post-colonial discourse has emphasised the independence and long life of Indian initiatives. In this new analysis the author demonstrates a more complex socio-economic situation. While Greyware is distributed long term over south India, Rouletted ware is made in at least two regional centres for coastal communities using a new ceramic language, one appropriate to an emerging international merchant class.

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Ethnizität, Differenz und Hybridität in der Migration

PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft ◽

10.32387/prokla.v30i120.767 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 30 (120) ◽

pp. 377-397 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kien Nghi Ha

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

German Society ◽

Political Strategy ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Key Concepts ◽

Hybrid Culture ◽

Anglo American

German society, nowadays, is marked by postcolonial immigration. This article tries to reconstruct ethnicity as historically based cultural identity that is not only open to the narration of collective experiences, but also to the recognition of difference, ambivalence, and change. These terms are also key-concepts in the post-colonial discourse of Anglo-American Cultural Studies, when culture and identity are discussed. Without the security of essentialist guarantee, but with the notion of ethnicity, that is devoted to different voices, the post-colonial critique tries to conceive of a political strategy, where marginalization is revalorised and the hybrid culture of the „borderlands” is promoted.

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VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Facta Universitatis Series Visual Arts and Music ◽

10.22190/fuvam2101075k ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 075

Author(s):

Ana Kocic Stanković

Keyword(s):

Native Americans ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Colonial America ◽

Visual Representations ◽

Colonial Period ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Representational Practices ◽

European Culture ◽

Age Of Exploration

The article presents some of the most common visual representations of Native Americans from the colonial period and the Age of Exploration of the Americas. Visual representations were a part of a broader colonial discourse and were based on the representational practices applied by the dominant Western European culture. After establishing a broader theoretical framework based on the post-colonial and cultural studies insights, the author singles out and analyzes several visual representations of Native Americans. The emphasis is on the Noble vs. Ignoble Savage stereotypes and tropes and how they are reflected in visual arts.

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Problematising Boundaries and ‘Hierarchies of Knowledge’ within European Anthropologies

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures ◽

10.3167/ajec.2020.290210 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 114-122

Author(s):

Alessandro Testa

Keyword(s):

Colonial Discourse ◽

Post Colonial ◽

The Past

Is European anthropology the product of a colonialist plot to gain intellectual hegemony? Was the epistemic posture of its main representatives in the past one of crypto-imperialism aimed at – and based upon – power, in the attempt to climb up the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’ and subjugate from its peak minor traditions of study? How can we think about the genealogy of Euro-anthropology (and its future progress) without necessarily capitulating to these narratives of powerism and to the grip of the radical post-colonial discourse, which has been growing mainstream of late? This piece seeks to briefly but piercingly address these pressing issues, while at the same time proposing a few viable routes around the resulting methodological impasses. It also represents the prolegomena to a longer and more substantial critique, which will be published later.

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JK ROWLING’S THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD: A MAGICAL REALISM ANALYSIS

PARADIGM ◽

10.18860/prdg.v2i2.6841 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 99

Author(s):

Agung Kusuma

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Social Development ◽

Magical Realism ◽

Human Life ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Post Colonial ◽

The World ◽

Child Readers

Literature plays an important role in psychological and social development of a child. Literature stimulates children’s imagination and sharpens their awareness of the world around them. It teaches our children about values, norms, equity, and firmly establishes the qualities of tolerance, compassion, sharing, caring, and ability to solve conflict. Therefore, it is undeniably important to shed a light on what our children read as they will project what they read in stories through their behavior. Using a post-colonial discourse, the writer put forward a well elaborate analysis and findings of magical realism study on JK Rowling’s short stories The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Moreover, the analysis focuses on how magical object describing the magical realism aspects is depicted as a part of human life and how it brings affects for the child readers.

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