Introduction: Global Morrison

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Justine Baillie
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Black Intellectual ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Black Writing ◽  
New Generation

Abstract As novelist, academic, and public intellectual Toni Morrison has made a profound contribution to the transformation of the black intellectual and political aesthetic. In many ways Morrison’s literary and theoretical formulations represent the feminization of black writing traditions through her representations of identity as being fluid and socially constructed. Her novels transform memory into alternative narratives of recovery that illuminate obscured histories of slavery, migration and urbanisation. This project constitutes a rich legacy for a new generation of writers who, working within a global nexus, interrogate the racial economics of trauma, dislocation and exile in ways that dissolve the distinctions between African American, colonial, and postcolonial studies. The introduction to this special issue highlights the transnational scope of Morrison’s work, with a particular focus on her non-fiction.

scholarly journals “Lay down branch roads, provide town sites, build barracks”: A Practical Stylistic Investigation of Hyde Clarke’s Colonization, Defence, and Railways in Our Indian Empire (1857)

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Francesca Virdis
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
English Language ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Research Purpose ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies

In his treatise Colonization, Defence, and Railways in Our Indian Empire (1857), Hyde Clarke wholeheartedly approves of Indian colonial railways and advocates the need for the British to bring about technological progress in the subcontinent. The main research purpose of this article is to provide stylistic evidence of how Clarke relays and constructs his Anglocentric and imperial viewpoint on Indian railways. The article firstly introduces the figure of Clarke and his railway pamphlet, and discusses the keywords colonialism and colonization as defined in two authoritative nineteenthcentury dictionaries of the English language and in colonial and postcolonial studies. Secondly, moving from this field and from the field of postcolonial stylistics, the stylistic methodology defined by Ron Carter as “practical stylistics” is applied to thirteen sequences from the treatise including the keyword colonization. Finally, the definitions of colonialism and colonization are compared with Clarke’s notion of colonization as emerging from the text. This linguistic analysis hence identifies and explores the stylistic strategies utilised by the author – mainly stylistic choices at word- and phrase-level, syntactic structures and the pragmatic functions of these devices – and reveals the ways in which he conveys his colonial mental attitude to the Indian reality.

Situating the Andean Colonial Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Local History ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
Andean Pact

Re-situating Andean colonial history from the perspective of the local historians of ayllu Qaqachaka, in highland Bolivia, this book draws on regional oral history combined with local and public written archives. Rejecting the binary models in vogue in colonial and postcolonial studies (indigenous/non-indigenous, Andean/Western, conquered/conquering), it explores the complex intercalation of legal pluralism and local history in the negotiations around Spanish demands, resulting in the so-called "Andean pact." The Qaqachaka's point of reference is the preceding Inka occupation, so in fulfilling Spanish demands they seek cultural continuity with this recent past. Spanish colonial administration, applies its roots in Roman-Germanic and Islamic law to many practices in the newly-conquered territories. Two major cycles of ayllu tales trace local responses to these colonial demands, in the practices for establishing settlements, and the feeding and dressing of the Catholic saints inside the new church, with their forebears in the Inka mummies.

scholarly journals THE TERRITORY OF SELF-AWARENESS: "THE ENCHANTMENT OF MOROCCO" BY SOFIIA YABLONSKA-UDEN

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 331-340
Author(s):  
Tymofii HAVRYLIV
Keyword(s):  
Travel Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
Ukrainian Society ◽  
European Civilization

The article is devoted to the study of the content aspects and structural features of the book of travel sketches "The Enchantment of Morocco" by Ukrainian filmmaker and traveler Sofiia Yablonska-Uden. On the example of the work, the discursive mechanisms of travel literature are analyzed in the context of a broad range of issues relevant to the time of writing sketches; innovative, semimedia character of travel sketches is shown, content blocks and the interrelations between them are distinguished and highlighted. Hermeneutic scientific approaches are used in this article; it is based on the philosophy of identity and cultural studies, colonial and postcolonial studies. Main results of the research: 1) travel literature occupies an important, and often a key place in the discourse on identity; 2) identity is conceived as a key multilevel marker; 3) the intention of the trip contains an identical challenge that affects the preparation, organization, flow of travel, the way of documenting impressions and the content of documented impressions; 4) the book is characterized by the tension between colonialism and enslavement, in the field of which the self-positioning of the narrator occurs; 5) traveling fulfills the function of restoring lost communications – with oneself, with culture, with history, with natural, urban and anthropomorphic environment. Sofiia Yablonska-Uden's "The Enchantment of Morocco" sketches formulate an identical challenge and try to answer him. This answer is complex, based on antinomy pairs: statehood – statelessness, Europeanism – non-European, modernity – nonmodernity, femininity – manhood, domination – subordination, maturity – childhood. These antinomy pairs are in interference, inclusion, and / or tangency relationships. The study of travel literature, an identical issue, is relevant for the formation of a modern vision of Ukrainian society itself, belonging to a European civilization project and engaging in a global context. Keywords nonfiction travel literature, modernism, extraterritorialization, exotic discourse, orientalism.

Perspectives on Migrant Homelessness in Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Satanic Verses

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petya Tsoneva ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Satanic Verses ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
A Site ◽  
Postcolonial Writers

The purpose of this article is to explore a territory that is widely contested in colonial and postcolonial studies. Home appears with particular intensity in the literary and critical narratives of empire, while postcolonial writers appropriate it as a site of contestation and rewriting. Although home is a standard topos in postcolonial research, my study focuses on a particular authorial position that reveals enticing new perspectives on the ways in which the domestic is both inscribed and subverted in the rhetoric of migration.

Scottish Colonial Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Sandrock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Scottish Literature ◽  
Utopian Literature ◽  
Isthmus Of Panama ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Atlantic Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Scottish Colonial Literature is a comprehensive study of Scottish colonial writing before 1707. It brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial literature before the Union of Parliaments. It introduces the term colonial utopian literature to frame the intricate relationship between colonialism and utopianism in the seventeenth century. Offering case studies relating to colonial undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and at the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s), Scottish Colonial Literature explores how literature and culture shaped Scotland's colonial ventures in the seventeenth century. In addition, it considers works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic so as to illuminate how the Atlantic shaped seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. One key question running through the book is the relationship between art and ideology. Textual narratives were powerful instruments of empire-building throughout the early modern period. This book focuses on utopianism as a framework that authors used to claim power over the Atlantic. In the Scottish context, the intersections between utopianism and colonialism shed light on the ambiguous narratives of possession and dispossession as well as internal and external colonialism in Scottish colonial writing of the seventeenth century. Scottish Colonial Literature enters debates about Scotland's position in colonial and postcolonial studies through its focus on pre-1707 Atlantic literature.

scholarly journals Of Protests and Riots: The Media Coverage of June 2009 Events in Iran and those of August 2011 in Britain

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Shahpoori Arani ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Marandi ◽  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial And Postcolonial Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Phase

In the wake of America’s post - 9/11 ”anti-terrorist” policies the old scenario of regime-change in Iran entered a new phase. The media coverage of the 2009 presidential election and especially the election aftermath in Iran, believed by many to be unprecedented in the history of Western media coverage of any presidential election, was clearly in line with color revolution strategies. Predictably, the BBC and VOA played a key role. Soon afterward, the August and September 2011anti-capitalism protests in London and New York provided a good chance once again to test the Western governments’ claim of respecting their people’s “right-to-protest.” Focusing mostly on the BBC’s coverage of the two events, as a case study, and drawing upon insights from colonial and postcolonial studies and critical discourse analysis, this study attempts to investigate how the BBC recontextualized and reported the post-election “protests” in Iran and August 2011 anti-capitalism “riots” in Britain through prepackaged information.

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