scholarly journals Primacy, polemic, and paradox in Ken Bugul’s The abandoned baobab

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-62
Author(s):  
Augustine H. Asaah
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Defense Systems ◽  
Feminist Writing ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

Arguably considered the prototype of African postcolonial feminist writing by reason of its poignant depiction of taboo subjects such as lesbianism, prostitution, drugs, and suicide, Ken Bugul’s The abandoned baobab has elicited sustained interest from the academy. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate by examining the strands of counter-discourse and postcolonial complicity within the context of the primacy ascribed to myths, the baobab, and the mother. It is driven by nativism and postcolonial theory. Far from constituting impregnable defense systems against hegemony, these primal forces prove to be limited in their protection of the protagonist. The paper concludes that even if the narrative foregrounds the mirage of hermetic identities and norms, it also defends Afrocentric development in the postcolony.

Gender and Sexuality in Postcolonial Perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
M. Adryael Tong
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Empire Studies

This chapter analyzes postcolonial biblical criticism as it emerged out of liberation theology, empire studies, and postcolonial theory. It argues that this convergence of disparate theoretical and disciplinary genealogies is what gives postcolonial biblical studies its unique appearance. It then turns to the place of gender and sexuality in postcolonial readings of the New Testament, exploring ways in which such readings both rely on and critique feminist and queer hermeneutics. The chapter highlights some prominent examples and discusses future challenges for scholars engaged in this approach. An extended case study of the problem of anti-Judaism in postcolonial feminist biblical scholarship illustrates key methodological challenges but also new interpretive possibilities.

scholarly journals Eksploitasi Concubinage dan Subjek Subaltern: Hegemoni atas Perempuan Indonesia dalam Tinjauan Kritis Pascakolonial dan Feminisme Novel De Winst Karya Afifah Afra

ATAVISME ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Bambang Aris Kartika
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sexually Marginalized ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

Tulisan ini membahas praktik kolonialisasi Belanda yang mengakibatkan terjadinya bias ketidakadilan gender terhadap posisi perempuan Indonesia dalam novel De Winst karya Afifah Afra. Bias ketidakadilan gender ini tercermin dari adanya eksploitasi secara seksual terhadap kaum perempuan dengan menjadikan mereka sebagai concubinage atau gundik dan menjadi subjek subaltern akibat praktikal hegemoni kekuasaan kaum laki-laki kulit putih kolonial Belanda. Melalui pendekatan teori pascakolonial dan ragam kritik sastra feminisme pascakolonial diperoleh suatu pemahaman bahwa kaum perempuan pada masa kolonial menjadi subjek yang termarginalkan, baik secara seksual maupun sosial. Kaum perempuan tidak memiliki bargaining power dalam ranah hukum untuk menuntut adanya pengakuan sebagai istri yang sah dan memiliki kedudukan yang terhormat, bukan menjadi korban dominasi kekuasaan laki-laki atas tubuh, baik secara seksual maupun tenaga untuk urusan domestik rumah tangga (double burden), termasuk juga stereotipe negatif yang cenderung merendahkan harkat dan martabatnya sebagai perempuan. Abstract : This paper discusses the practice of Dutch colonization which resulted in a gender injustice bias toward the position of Indonesian women in the novel De Winst author by Afifah Afra. This is reflected from the practical sexual exploitation against women by making them as concubines (concubinage) or “wives” who are actually represented as a concubine because of no formal “diperistri” by white people and become the subject of subaltern or oppressed because of the practical power of the male hegemony white man of Dutch colonial. Through a variety of postcolonial theory and postcolonial feminist literary criticism, the analysis gained an understanding that women in the colonial period became the subject of both sexually marginalized and social. These women had no bargaining power in the realm of law to demand the recognition of the legitimate as a wife and a respectable position, not a victim of male domination of power over the body, either sexual or domestic labor for their household affairs (double burden ), including negative stereotypes that tend to lower their dignity as women. Key Words: concubinage; subaltern; colonialism; theory of postcolonialism; postcolonial feminist literary of critics

Colonizing Innovation:

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhinav CHATURVEDI ◽  
Alf REHN
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Frugal Innovation ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Management Literature

Innovation is one of the most popular concepts and desired phenomena of contemporary Western capitalism. As such, there is a perennial drive to capture said phenomena, and particularly to find new ways to incite and drive the same. In this text, we analyze one specific tactic through which this is done, namely by the culturally colonial appropriation of indigenous knowledge systems. By looking to how jugaad, a system   of   frugal   innovation   in   India,   has been   made   into   fodder   for   Western management literature, we argue for the need of a more developed innovation critique, e.g., by looking to postcolonial theory.

Postcolonial Theory, Multiculturalism and the Israeli Left: A Critique of Post-Zionism

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nada Matta
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
Hebrew Language

This article is a theoretical critique of the post-Zionist discourse that emerged in Israel in the early 1990s. It examines articles published by a group of leading Israeli intellectuals in Teoriya vi-Bekorit (Theory and Criticism), a Hebrew-language journal which promotes post-Zionist discourse. It focuses on three major components of the discourse: postcolonial theory, identity-politics and multiculturalism. It examines how these terms were imported into Israeli culture and society. The article highlights the problematic of applying these terms to Israel, and applies existing Marxist critique of the three theoretical dimensions. Finally, it argues for a distinctive post-Zionist critique, one that is based on solidarity among people, rather than difference and multiplicity.

Intifada Incantation #2

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Mekhatansh McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This work examines how June Jordan's poetry dedicated to solidarity is a pedagogical and epistemological framework in SOLHOTLex and in engaging Black girls around the interconnectedness of the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Syrians under the Bashar Al Assad regime. It begins to answer the questions of how frameworks like womanism and postcolonial feminist theory inform engagement around solidarity in SOLHOTLex and organizing Black girls while examining what critical engagement and organizing looks like when the voices of Black girls are in symphony with the rest of the world's resistance struggles.

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