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Nazareth, Peter, and Om P. Juneja. "Post Colonial Novel: Narratives of Colonial Consciousness." World Literature Today 70, no. 3 (1996): 769. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40042324.
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Shcherbak, Nina F. "Post-Colonial “Writing Back”." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 17, no. 3 (December 15, 2020): 334–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2020-17-3-334-342.
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The main aim of this article is to outline the state of the art of contemporary post-colonial literature related to the names of Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Theodore Wilson Harris, Amos Tutuola, Grace Nichols, Amryl Johnson, Fred D’Aguiar, Maryse Conde. The theory of post-colonial studies put forward by Franz Fanon is considered to account for the creation of a new type of a post-colonial writer who maintains his own identity and is not related to any stereotypes, being in a way a Gorgon face that freezes anyone who wants to apply European or North Atlantic views on it. This sort of literature largely breaks the rules of the English language in the case of Anglophone literary sources that are considered in this research. A tendency is to develop a new kind of narrative regarding historical novel as well as classical post-colonial literature in the face of S. Rushdie or Garcia Marquez.
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Suvorov, Mikhail N. "The Colony of Aden in Post-Colonial Yemeni Novel." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 13, no. 1 (2021): 32–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.103.
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In many Arab countries, where colonial rule was replaced by local authoritarian, often corrupt, regimes, popular discontent with the living conditions under the new government has produced a kind of nostalgia for the colonial past. This nostalgia is well observed in today’s Aden (Republic of Yemen), which was a British colony from 1839 until 1967. In the middle of the 20th century, Aden was the most prosperous city on the Arabian Peninsula and one of the busiest seaports in the world. This article examines how this nostalgia is manifested in modern Yemeni literature, namely in three novels: Three Midnighters (1993) by Sa‘id Awlaqi, Adeni Incense (2014) by Ali al-Muqri, and Steamer Point (2015) by Ahmad Zayn (Zein). In the novel Three Midnighters, which takes place in the late 1980s, the allegory of Aden Colony is a cultural club, whose activities are remembered by the characters. The main characteristics of that club were its openness to all people, its atmosphere of freedom of thought, freedom of expression, mutual respect of its members, prosperity, love, and fun. In Adeni Incense, Aden Colony also resembles a wonderful club. The members of this club, that is, the characters of the novel, live in harmony, love, and prosperity — until evil external forces begin to destroy this club. The lack of realistic details in the depiction of the city and its inhabitants allows the reader to perceive the novel as allegorical rather than realistic. In Steamer Point, Aden Colony does not appear as a wonderful club, since the novel is written in a completely realistic manner. Nevertheless, Aden in the novel has two important features: the economic prosperity and peaceful coexistence of representatives of different cultures and different identities. It is these features of the city that one of the main characters, a sincere admirer of the British, is afraid to lose as a result of the British withdrawal.
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YASSIN MOHD ABA SHAR’AR, Mohammed, and Chamaiporn BUDDHARAT. "THE KNACK OF NARRATION: A POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUE IN NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S WEEP NOT, CHILD." Ezikov Svyat volume 19 issue 2, ezs.swu.v19i2 (May 1, 2021): 74–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v19i2.9.
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The downfall of the European colonialism in the African and Asian colonies was not the end of the colonial hegemony, but the beginning of indirect imperial policies. In a unique narrative style, Ngugi has creatively fictionalized his anti-colonial stand through creating characters with Kenyan names to voice his resistance to colonization. The methodology of this study is descriptive analysis. The paper analyzes critically Ngugi’s novel Weep Not, Child and shows how he implemented different narrative techniques (e.g. free indirect narration, freewheeling narrative technique, and author surrogate) to depict the atrocities and aftermath of colonization. It explicates how Ngugi uses narration to liberate gradually the minds of his people and their land from the settlers through the decolonial styles of peaceful struggle and focus on education. Specifically, the paper elaborates how Ngugi, like many other post-colonial writers, resisted and challenged the neo-imperial forms over the previous colonies in the neo-colonial era. Ngugi’s novel sheds light on the impacts of colonialism which affected negatively not only Kenya, but also all the colonized nations.
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Lloyd, D. W. "BEYOND THE COLONIAL NOVEL: THE LAST NOVELS OF LAURENS VAN DER POST." Literature and Theology 13, no. 4 (December 1, 1999): 323–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/13.4.323.
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Shcherbak, Nina F. "Diversity of Genre in Post-Colonial Literature." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 18, no. 3 (September 10, 2021): 295–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2021-18-3-295-300.
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The main aim of this article is to outline main tendencies in the development of post-colonial literature in the face of Jean Rhys and her novel Wide Sargasso Sea as a vivid example of starting attempt to break a white-domineering view of Asian countries and build up a new identity. Research attempts to refer to a wider scope of literary texts, including the ones that outline issues and problems related to the so-called invasion narratives. The term invasion narratives is seen as referring to a number of different texts, including English Patient by Michael Ondaatje or the Reader by Bernhard Schlink. One of numerous possibilities of analyzing post-colonial literature is the analysis of the novels by Zadie Smith White Teeth and on Beauty, the latter being a good example of a return to realism and actualizing what is called coined as the meanwhile. Special attention is given to meta-modernism and its function on the contemporary cultural and literary scene, above all with its attempt to start a neo-romantic direct kind of prose, or verse, simple in its form, yet aiming to construct new identities. This kind of prose incorporates the narratives exploring different traumas, including trans-generational traumas.
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Azam, Nushrat. "Prejudice in Joseph Conrad’s Post-Colonial Novel Heart of Darkness." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 5 (September 30, 2019): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.5p.116.
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The paper analyses the underlying racism present in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Although Heart of Darkness has been considered one of the greatest works of art ever since it was first published, one aspect of the novel has been a constant source of criticism and debate among scholars and readers: racism. Whether this novel is racist is a question of utmost importance because this question puts the greatness of the novel in doubt. The purpose of this study is to answer this very question of racism through the analysis of the author’s point of view, characterization, visual description, use of symbols and language used in the novel with regards to racism. Through the analysis it has been concluded that through Conrad’s method of narration, style and literary skill, Conrad expertly masks racist viewpoints and hides the fact that at its core, Heart of Darkness is in fact a racist novel.
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Morve, Roshan K. "Representation of History in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006." Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2015): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v2i1.291.
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This study deals with the conflict of Nigerian Biafran War 6 July, 1960-15 January, 1967 as represented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The study attempts to address the following four questions: first, what are the causes-effects of Biafran/Civil war? Second, why Nigerians have been suffering during the wartime? Third, how does the representation of Nigerian history enable understanding of the post-colonial issues? And final, what is the role of conflict in Nigerian history? In order to understand this conflict, the study addresses the detailed analysis of war conflict, ethnic conflict, class conflict, military conflict and eco-political conflict. The post-colonial approach becomes one of the ways of engaging the theoretical understanding of the novel Half of a Yellow Sun. In sum up, the novel is located with the issues of marginality, history and conflict, which interrogates through post-colonial theoretical formations and the six-phase structure of war novels.
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Labaune-Demeule, Florence. "The Novel in Post-Colonial Literatures: Re-Mapping the Genre." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 38, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.4914.
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Hadiyanto. "Kolonialisasi Inggris dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Masyarakat Tradisional Afrika dalam Novel Things Fall Apart Karya Chinua Achebe." Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya 2, no. 2 (August 11, 2012): 153–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26714/lensa.2.2.2012.153-185.
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This paper discusses England colonization and its impacts on African tribal culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of England colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening England's colonial hegemony in Africa. The England colonialists' imperialism results in horizontal conflict and cultural-social disintegration in African native society; between the pro-colonial and the anti-colonial. Anti-colonial resistence is shown by most African native society to fight against colonial government arrogance and to resist England imperialism in Africa.
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Ningrum, Rifqia Kartika, Herman J. Waluyo, and Retno Winarni. "REPRESENTATION OF JAPANESE POST-COLONIAL EXPERIENCE IN THE YEAR OF 1942-1945 BASED ON PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER’S NOVEL “PERBURUAN”." Humanus 16, no. 1 (September 30, 2017): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/humanus.v16i1.7943.
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REPRESENTASI POSKOLONIAL MASA PENJAJAHAN JEPANG TAHUN 1942-1945 DALAM NOVEL PERBURUAN KARYA PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOERAbstractThis article is aimed to describe post-colonial forms which represented by the figures in the Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s novel Perburuan. This novel portrays about a character named Hardo who fought Japanese colonialism together with his two friends, Dipo and Karmin. However, their plan was failed to be implemented. It was making Hardo a Japanese fugitive. This novel is about the history of Japanese colonialism in Indonesia. Therefore, this novel can be studied with post-colonial theory. Type of this research is descriptive qualitative research using post-colonial approach. Researchers gathered the data by searching data in the novel that has relevance to the three formulations of the post-colonial theory that have been found. These three formulations include resistance, betrayal, and character’s self-doubt (ambivalence). The technique used in this article is content analysis. The research steps were determined the data source, collection the data, classification the data, and data analysis. Data analysis technique used was Miles and Huberman model that consists of data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Through the representation of characters in the novel found the forms of resistance, betrayal, and characteristic’s self-doubts as forms of post-colonial representation.Key words : Representation, post-colonial analysis, novel AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk-bentuk poskolonial yang direpresentasikan oleh tokoh-tokoh dalam novel Perburuan karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Novel Perburuan menggambarkan tentang kondisi penjajahan Jepang yang pernah terjadi di Indonesia antara tahun 1942-1945. Novel ini bercerita tentang seorang tokoh bernama Hardo yang melawan penjajahan Jepang bersama dua kawannya, Dipo dan Karmin. Namun, rencana tersebut gagal dilaksanakan sehingga menjadikan Hardo sebagai buronan Jepang. Novel ini mengandung sejarah penjajahan Jepang di Indonesia. Oleh karena itu, novel ini dapat dikaji dengan teori poskolonial. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif bersifat deskriptif dengan menggunakan pendekatan poskolonial. Cara kerjanya yaitu dengan mencari data dalam novel yang memiliki keterkaitan dengan tiga formulasi dari teori poskolonial yang telah ditemukan. Tiga formulasi tersebut meliputi usaha perlawanan, pengkhianatan, dan kebimbangan tokoh (ambivalensi). Teknik yang digunakan yaitu analisis isi. Langkah penelitiannya adalah menentukan sumber data, pengumpulan, pengklasifikasian, dan analisis data. Teknik analisis datanya menggunakan model Miles dan Huberman yang terdiri dari reduksi data, sajian data, dan penarikan simpulan. Melalui representasi tokoh dalam novel tersebut ditemukan bentuk-bentu perlawanan, pengkhianatan, dan kebimbangan tokoh sebagai bentuk representasi poskolonial.Kata Kunci: Representasi, analisis poskolonial, novel
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Lestari, Winda Dwi, Sarwiji Suwandi, and Muhammad Rohmadi. "KAUM SUBALTERN DALAM NOVEL-NOVEL KARYA SOERATMAN SASTRADIHARDJA: SEBUAH KAJIAN SASTRA POSKOLONIAL (SUBALTERN IN NOVELS BY SOERATMAN SASTRADIHARDJA: A POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE STUDY)." Widyaparwa 46, no. 2 (January 23, 2019): 178–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/wdprw.v46i2.175.
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The research is originally inspired by the problem occurring on colonial era in Indonesia, especially Java area, which remains social strata differences problem in society i.e. native and colonial. Colonial creates hegemony which makes the native and the exile or known as subaltern. Colonizer portrays an ideology as if it takes side of the native. In contrarily it is as a mean to gain profit for the colonial. The research is based on theory developed by GayatriSpivak who proposes that the subaltern victims are mostly women. The research aims to describe how subaltern effort, especially women, in striving against colonizer oppression and also their culture i.e. Javanese culture. The method used in the research is descriptive method and content analysis technique. The result indicates that female character becomes subaltern as a result of marginalization, labeling, social status discrimination and applied customary law bond. Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh permasalahan yang terjadi pada zaman penjajahan kolonial di Indonesia khususnya di daerah Jawa, yang meninggakan permasalahan adanya pembedaan strata sosial dalam masyarakat yaitu kaum pribumi dan kaum penjajah. Kaum penjajah menciptakan hegemoni yang membuat kaum pribumi seolah-olah hanya sebagai pengikut dan kaum buangan yang lebih di kena dengan kaum subaltern. Penjajah menanamkan ideologi yang seolah-olah berpihak kepada pribumi namun sebaliknya hal itu hanya sebagai sarana agar lebih menguntungkan penjajah. Penelitian ini berdasar pada teori yang dikembangkan oleh Gayatri Spivak yang menyatakan bahwa kaum subaltern yang banyak menjadi korban adalah perempuan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskribsikan bagaimana upaya kaum subaltern khususnya perempuan dalam melawan ketertindasan dari penjajah dan juga budayanya sendiri yaitu budaya Jawa. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif dengan teknik analisis isi (content analysis). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan menunjukkan bahwa tokoh perempuan menjadi subaltern karena temarginalisasi, mendapat pelabelan, dimiskinkan secara status sosial dan ikatan hukum adat yang berlaku.
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Hadiyanto. "REPRESENTASI KOLONISASI TERHADAP MASYARAKAT KULIT HITAM AFRIKA DALAM NOVEL THINGS FALL APART KARYA CHINUA ACHEBE." HUMANIKA 19, no. 1 (October 18, 2016): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/humanika.19.1.20-34.
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Abstract This article discusses white-skinned race colonization and its impacts on African black-skinned race tribal society and culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as the implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of white-skinned race colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening white-skinned race’s colonial hegemony in Africa. The white-skinned race colonialists’ imperialism results in horizontal conflict and cultural-social disintegration in African native society; between the pro-colonial and the anti-colonial. Anti-colonial resistence is shown by most African native society to fight against colonial government arrogance and to resist white-skinned race imperialism in Africa. Keywords: African black-skinned race traditional culture, white-skinned race colonization, horizontal conflict, social-cultural disintegration
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Makaudze, Godwin. "African traditional leadership and succession in the post-colonial Shona novel." Journal of the African Literature Association 11, no. 2 (May 4, 2017): 210–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2017.1375658.
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Singh, Nitin. "Post Colonial Dilemma in Kiran Desai’s Novel “The Inheritance Of Loss”." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 6, no. 12 (December 28, 2018): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v6i12.9854.
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The research paper sheds light on the problems, difficulties and hurdles faced by the migrant people to the different parts of the world. The novel “the Inheritance of Loss” written by Kiran Desai. She is a diasporic writer. Basically diasporic writers are those who are not living in their birthplace countries but still connect with their birthplace through their writings. So the foremost concerns of the diasporic literature is to explore the problems of displaced people, their exile, and the consequences.
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Manai, Franco. "Mario Domenichelli’s Lugemalé: Heart of Darknesss revisited in Post-colonial Italy." Arcadia 47, no. 1 (July 2012): 173–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2012-0009.
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AbstractMario Domenichelli’s novel Lugemalé is set in the late 1980s and early 2000s, between Rome and Somalia. The book follows the narrator,Valerio, as he reads, in the early 2000s in Rome, the typescript of a novel written by a friend, Tomas, before his mysterious death in Mogadishu. Tomas’ novel describes the events which took place in 1989 at the end of the Siad Barre regime, when Italy was still committed to fulfilling its responsibilities as an ex-colonial power, through major projects of cooperative development. Both Valerio and Tomas were employed by the Italian government’s Development Cooperation Agency as lecturers at the University of Mogadishu. In his narration, Tomas merges his own experiences with Valerio’s, through the main characters of Gigi and Marco. In a complex play of mirrors (a novel within a novel, a reading of a tale within the tale of a reading) that reveals the ambiguities and contradictions of both characters, Lugemalé is merciless in its judgment of the generation of Europeans who became the ruling class of the 1980s. Such a post-colonial adventure offers a powerfully alienating perspective for the representation, post res perditas, of the vanishing of that class’s commitment to changing the status quo and breaking with a capitalist society based on the most depraved and egoistic consumerism.
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Łaniewski, Paweł. "Zajełdyz. O postkolonialnych aspektach Jakucji Jegora Radowa." Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia 8 (July 22, 2021): 313–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2353-8546.8.20.
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The author analyzes the relationship between post-colonialism and postmodernism on the basis of Egor Radov’s novel Yakutia. The two currents are interrelated and affect both the aesthetics and the structure of the works. Their Russian variants, due to their particular interpretation of the colonial issue, are very different from the Western models. Yakutia is an example of a postmodern novel in which the post-colonial context is a background for philosophical and socio-political reflections. The novel combines various motifs characteristic of the genre of dystopia, popular in Russian postmodernism.
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Phukan, Khammoun. "CONSTRUCTING ETHNIC IDENTITY IN RAJANIKANTA BARDOLOI’S MIRI JIYORI: A (POST) COLONIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEXT." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8, no. 4 (August 29, 2020): 657–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.8465.
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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to understand the concept of ethnic Identity projected in the early novels of Assamese literature. This study also investigates a colonial narrative in the text and tries to understand the present scenario highlighting the past.
Methodology: It is a descriptive analysis based on qualitative method research. Focusing on the concept of ethnic Identity the research has been done under the discourse of postcolonial literary theory. The data and speculation are drawn from the secondary sources. Any kind of technical software has not been used in carrying out the research.
Main Findings: The research brings out to the forefront that even in the colonial period; the native writers seem to be conscious about their own culture and the society. They were aware of the marginal boundary created by hegemonic colonial products. The writers raise the question of constructing ‘self’ and ‘other’ and a developing sense of cultural hierarchy.
Applications of this study: This study would help to locate the space of marginalised society in that colonial construction and help the researchers to understand the gap between the early Assamese literatures of the colonial period. Moreover, the study also finds out the awareness of the writers even in the colonial rule about the peripheral boundary and ethnic Identity of a multiethnic/multilingual society.
Novelty/Originality of this study: It is certain that Assamese novels have been studied under various theoretical frameworks, but as we are concerned this theme has not been discussed yet for this particular novel. The presentation of the colonial past in the text is the originality of this research.
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Azam, Nushrat. "“Madwoman in the Post-Colonial Era” A Study of the Female Voice in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 7 (October 10, 2017): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.7p.236.
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This paper seeks to analyze the mediums and effects of voice and silence in the life of a female character of the re-written post-colonial text Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. The analysis shows how a re-written text can give a new meaning to a character and story of a novel, where the character of Antoinette tells the untold story of Bertha in Jane Eyre. The method of investigation for this research is analytical and descriptive; the research was completed by analyzing the events, actions and the interactions of the female character, Antoinette with the other major characters in the novel in order to identify how the character of Antoinette was portrayed throughout the novel. It is understood through the study of the text, that the post-colonial novel gave the female voice much more importance than its previous counterpart. This represents the early post-colonial times during which women were starting to gain liberation but had still not completely moved on from the notions of patriarchal societies that they had grown up in.
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Iqbal, Muhammad. "Orientalism in Joseph Conrad’s novel Almayer’s Folly (1895): a post-colonial approach." COMMICAST 1, no. 2 (November 2, 2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/commicast.v1i2.2728.
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He represents the false critic toward colonialism which depicted him as the author in the neutral side in the history of colonialism. In this undergraduate thesis, the writer attempts to reveal the pattern of Joseph Conrad’s Orientalism by find the image and stereotype of the Orient and Occident, the Fantasy of Western colonialism, the hegemony that legitimate the colonial authorities toward the Malay Archipelago and finds the evidence that proves him as the part of author who supports colonialism. The writer uses Edward’s Said Orientalism theory as the major post-colonial theory in this study to investigate the pattern of Orientalism and the evidence of Joseph Conrad as the colonialist author. The writer uses the technique of writing this undergraduate thesis by dividing the extrinsic and intrinsic element of the novel Almayer’s Folly (1895). In the finding and discussion of this undergraduate thesis, the writer reveals the pattern of Orientalism and the evidence of Joseph Conrad as the pro-colonialism author through the binary division in the novel which creates the stereotype of the Orient and compares to the ideal Victorian character depicted in his white characters in the novel. Then, Conrad creates the Western Fantasy toward the Oriental Malay Archipelago as the object for the Westerner in search of adventure, career and positioning the imaginary narrative of European territory as the happy land for the major characters.
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McLeod, Cynthia. "Role and function of a historical novel in a post colonial society." Letras Escreve 9, no. 2 (March 2, 2020): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.18468/letras.2019v9n2.p105-111.
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“In a nation where the people have no access to the sources of its history, the self image will be based on mythes and stereotypes”. This was one of the statements of the famous historian Barbara Tuchman in her PHD “A distant Mirror”, in 1978.
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Van Coller, H. P. "Die reisverslag van ’n post-kolonialistiese reisiger: Die reise van Isobelle deur Elsa Joubert." Literator 19, no. 3 (April 30, 1998): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v19i3.557.
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The travelogue of a post-colonial traveller: The travels of Isobelle by Elsa Joubert Die reise van Isobelle (The travels of Isobelle) written by Elsa Joubert is regarded as one of her best novels. In many respects this novel can be considered as an overview of an extensive and impressive oeuvre. This article attempts to indicate that this novel not only relates to the important tradition of travel writing in Afrikaans literature, but also comments on this tradition from a feminist and postcolonial perspective. In a certain sense this novel can also be read as a continuance (or rewriting) of Joubert's own travel journals that have still been embedded in a colonial consciousness. Once again a symbiotic relationship exists between the above-mentioned novel and several of Elsa Joubert's other travel journals. In this article the intertextual ties with Water en woestyn and Die verste reis are explored in particular. The premise of this hypothesis is that the characteristic aspect of travel literature is the unseverable tie between centrifugal and centripetal forces. To a great extent the structure of this extensive work, with its extraordinarily solid motif structure, already determines this.
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MAES-JELINEK, HENA. "Europe and post-colonial creativity: a metaphysical cross-culturalism." European Review 13, no. 1 (January 20, 2005): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798705000098.
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In Shakespeare's The Tempest, the meeting between Prospero and Caliban is an allegory of a Renaissance colonial encounter. Although Prospero emphasizes his gift of language to Caliban, he deems him incapable of ‘nurture’ (cultural progress). After the Second World War, the Barbadian novelist Georges Lamming saw in that gift the possibility of a ‘new departure’, which in the following decades was to modify not only Caliban's prospects but most emphatically the European, and specifically, the British cultural scene. I intend to illustrate this transformation through the contribution of postcolonial writers to the metamorphosis of the ‘Great Tradition’ of the English novel. The changes are formal, linguistic but also evince a metaphysical cross-culturalism best exemplified, among others, in the fiction of the Guyanese-born, British novelist Wilson Harris.
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Khattak, Zahir Jang, Hira Ali, and Shehrzad Ameena Khattak. "Post-colonial Feminist Critique of Roys The God of Small Thing." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. II (June 30, 2019): 344–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-ii).44.
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The present study intends to thoroughly examine the Postcolonial feminist perspective in Arundhati Roys novel The God of Small Things by focusing on the theoretical approaches of Gaytri Spivak, Trinh T.Minha and Ania Loomba. The ambivalent personality of colonized women is tarnished due to subalternity imposed by the patriarchal culture of India. The destructive nature of the Western Imperialism forced the people to endure wild oppression by British colonizers. Postcolonialism paved the way for the double oppression of women. Women became the victim of not only British Imperialists but also native cultural patriarchy. Roy successfully intricates three generations of women i.e Baby Kochamma, Mammachi, Ammu, and Rahel into the fabric of the novel to acme the plight of women in the Third World Nations..
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Lubowicka, Agata. "Mellem Det (Post)Koloniale, Det (Post)Nationale Og Det Globale: En Analyse Af Niviaq Korneliussens Homo Sapienne." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 24, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fsp-2018-0004.
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Abstract The paper presents a close-reading of the Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen’s novel Homo sapienne (2014) with the aim of answering the question, whether it can be defined as a postnational or a migration novel, according to the definitions presented by Elisabeth Oxfeldt and Søren Frank. To this end four different categories: the hybrid, the (post)colonial, the national and the global are applied in the analysis with the primary focus on examining how the dominating narratives of Greenlandicness are confirmed, challenged or rejected in the novel, as well as how the novel’s language, structure and narrative strategies not only contribute to a new understanding of the genre, but of the issues in question in general.
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Jadwe, Majeed U. "Storytelling, Liminality & the Textual Fashioning of a Post-Colonial “Ancient Mariner” in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 3, no. 3 (July 5, 2019): p241. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v3n3p241.
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This paper examines Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a post-colonial re-writing of S. T. Coleridge’s narrative poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798). A comparative analysis is carried between these two works to establish their affinities in terms of storytelling technicalities and the space of liminality where they position their narrators. The comparative analysis shall prove that Hamid’s affinities with Coleridge’s work are deliberately employed to fashion his central character Changez as a post-colonial ancient mariner, which ultimately lies to the heart of the novel as both a contemporary politico-moral fable and as an act of resistance to post 9/11 American neo-colonialist discourses.
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Oduor, Vincent Odhiambo. "Artistry and Post-Colonial Issues in Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters." Editon Consortium Journal of Literature and Linguistic Studies 2, no. 1 (May 31, 2020): 130–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjlls.v2i1.123.
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This paper sets out to examine how Wole Soyinka uses art in his first novel, The Interpreters to reflect the post-colonial issues that affect individuals in the newly independent state of Nigeria. It begins by illuminating Wole Soyinka as a unique artist who experiments with all genres of literature. The paper then discusses Artistry in The Interpreters but limiting the study to plot, characterisation and his style of narration. This paper draws interest in the society as portrayed in the text. We see a society which is experiencing a gradual drifting from the traditional ways of life to the modern, though in a confused manner because their world view of the contemporary world is suppressed by the systems put by the post-colonial government. The interpreters are an epitome of the broader community, which is experiencing changes in their country. The paper brings out an argument that with the creation of post-colonial society come different personalities with different responses to the situation.
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Arasteh, Parisa, and Hossein Pirnajmuddin. "The Mimic (Wo)man ‘Writes Back’: Anita Desai’s In Custody." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 27 (May 2014): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.27.57.
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This article aims to trace the articulation of resistance in terms of gender and the postcolonial condition in Anita Desai’s In Custody (1984). As one of the most prominent post-Independence Indian writers of her time, Anita Desai has been a strong voice in portraying the Indian domestic sphere. Accordingly, one of the main concerns of Desai’s novels has been the representation of women and their struggles against patriarchal and colonial oppression. Though promising in many aspects, the political Independence of 1947 failed to unburden women from the ideal visions of womanhood promoted both by traditional community and colonialists in India. The present study focuses on the portrayal of women and female instances of resistance and the spaces through which they manage to survive in a male-dominated Post-Independence Indian society. Since the 1980s, Homi K. Bhabha has opened up a wide variety of critical issues fundamental to the understanding of colonial and post-colonial condition. His theorization of the idea of ‘mimicry’ is used in order to explore the socio-cultural interrelations Desai’s novel seeks to reveal.
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Van Kempen, Michiel. "Post-colonial Literary Texts as Reading Texts within Today’s Schools." Werkwinkel 13, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2018): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/werk-2018-0002.
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Abstract In the making of an edition of the first modern Dutch slavery novel, De stille plantage (1931) by Surinamese author Albert Helman, all kinds of questions arise. There are issues of postcolonial contextualization, historical commentary and the way a text gets its actual significance in high schools. All these issues have their own sensibility in the light of recent fierce debates on slavery and its impact on western societies. The editors do have to take into account more than ever before their own position and questions of ideological responsibility, apart from issues of didactical and pedagogical nature. The question is raised whether such a modern edition does not touch more upon ideological language critique than postcolonial contextualization.
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Ilunina, Anna Aleksandrovna. "Multicultural and Post-Colonial Problematics in the Novel “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 4 (April 2021): 1032–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil210154.
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Afni, Fitri Nurul. "Kepercayaan Dinamisme Masyarakat Postkolonial Jawa dalam Novel Entrok Karya Okky Madasari." SASTRANESIA: Jurnal Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 8, no. 3 (September 29, 2020): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32682/sastranesia.v8i3.1508.
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The diversity of beliefs in Javanese dynamism is the object of cultural reflection in postcolonial societies in the novel Entrok by Okky Madasari. The beliefs of the postcolonial Javanese community were dominant with Javanese traditions handed down by ancestors and the results of acculturation that formed the compilation of the colonial period. The purpose of this article is the conversion of Javanese post-colonial beliefs in Entrok's novel that reflects Javanese traditions handed down by ancestors or the results of acculturation that formed the compilation of the colonial period. This article uses descriptive methods using qualitative methods, using literature study techniques, and data analysis in the form of data reduction, data presentation, and making conclusions. This article contains the dynamism beliefs about belief in Kawi Mount, sacred trees, tuyul, and witchcraft.
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Sutch, Peter, and Peri Roberts. "Outer space and neo-colonial injustice." International Journal of Social Economics 46, no. 11 (November 4, 2019): 1291–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2019-0152.
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Purpose Recent developments in US rhetoric and policy advocating the militarisation and marketisation of outer space challenge the global commons values and regimes that developed partly in response to decolonisation. These regimes embodied aspirations to post-colonial distributive justice, as well as to international management for peaceful purposes. The purpose of this paper is to argue that global commons values should be defended against these challenges in order to avoid the risk of exporting colonial legacies of injustice into outer space. Design/methodology/approach This paper is an exercise in normative International Political Theory and so develops normative arguments by drawing on approaches in political theory and international law. Findings This paper demonstrates that the commons values endorsed in the aftermath of colonialism retain their relevance in a global politics that remains structured by post-colonial power relations. This paper also demonstrates that these commons values have evolved and found expression in central elements of international law, persisting as resources to be drawn on in normative argument. Originality/value This study places recent moves to assert US hegemony in space in the context of persistent post-colonial power relations and develops novel arguments in renewed support of commons values.
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Fatollahi, Moslem. "Cannibalism and cultural manipulation: How Morier is received in the Persian literary canon." Human Affairs 28, no. 2 (April 25, 2018): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0012.
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Abstract Post-colonialism and orientalism have inspired literary scholars to study various aspects of literature and literary translation in the post-colonial era. One of the implications of post-colonialism for literature as a discipline is the idea of cannibalism and cultural manipulation. This corpus-based study aims to analyze the notions of “cultural manipulation” or “cannibalism” in the Persian translation of Haji Baba by Mirza Habib Isfahani, to explore the translator’s strategy, as an intercultural mediator, in modulating the source novel’s colonial stance and adapting it to the religious, literary and cultural tastes of the Iranians. Our findings reveal that two main techniques—of omission and euphemism—have been applied in rendering the novel into Persian. Using these techniques, the translator has attempted to challenge the imperial stance of the main writer and come up with a version of the source novel which is much less insulting to Iranians’ cultural values. That is why this translation has been widely received as a literary masterpiece in Persian literature. One implication is that it might be claimed that cannibalism and cultural manipulation can be used to explain the trend of manipulating western literature in countries which have never been colonized, but that have suffered from the colonial stance of colonial writers.
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McCredden, Lyn. "A Post-Colonial Ontology? Tim Winton’s The Riders and the Challenge to White-Settler Identity." Humanities 9, no. 3 (August 28, 2020): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030095.
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Through a reading of Australian non-Indigenous author Tim Winton and his novel The Riders, this essay seeks to shake to the very roots white-settler understandings of identity and belonging. The essay treads respectfully into the field of Australian identity, recognizing that Indigenous people’s ancient and sacred relationship with country and the formation of treaties with the nation, are now rightfully central on national agendas. However, this essay asks the following question: what are the ontological grounds upon which respectful dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians might occur, after such violent and traumatic history? The essay explores the possible grounds for an evolving dialogue, one which will be necessarily intersectional: (post)colonial, spiritual/ontological and material. Further, the essay identifies “spirituality” and “ontology” as broad denominators for religion, speculating on a (post)colonial ontology which centers on home and (un)belonging. White-settler Australians, this essay argues, must confront deep ontological issues of brokenness if they are to take part meaningfully in future dialogues. Scully, the protagonist of The Riders, finds himself far from home and stripped of almost all the markers of his former identity: as Australian, as husband, and as a man in control of his life. The novel probes (un)belonging for this individual descendent of colonial Australia, as trauma engulfs him. Further, it will be argued that The Riders prefigures the wider, potentially positive aspects of a post-colonial ontology of (un)belonging, as white-settler Australians come to enunciate a broken history, and ontological instability. Such recognition, this essay argues, is a preliminary step towards a fuller post-colonial dialogue in Australia.
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Azam, Nushrat. "A Feminist Critique of “Voice” and the “Other” in J.M. Coetzee’s Post-colonial Novel “Foe”." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 7 (December 1, 2018): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.7p.164.
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This paper seeks to analyze the techniques and effects of voice and silence in the life of a female character in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe. The analysis shows how the character of Susan Barton in Foe gives readers a feminine perspective on the famous tale of Robinson Crusoe. The method of investigation is a critical examination of the characterization of the female character; the research analyzes the events, actions and the interactions of Susan Barton, with a sight to identify how the character of Susan is portrayed in the novel. The analysis shows that while Susan is able to find a “voice” in some parts of this post-colonial text, her constant submission to strong male characters in the novel ends up showing a picture of a frail woman who defines her existence and individuality relative to men in her life. It strengthens the fact that women were still struggling to free themselves from the patriarchal domination of the post-colonial era.
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Mustofa, Ali. "Ras, Etnisitas, dan Identitas Dalam Novel Batas Langit Karya Mohamed Latiff Mohamed." ATAVISME 11, no. 1 (June 30, 2008): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24257/atavisme.v11i1.320.1-12.
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This article describes the issues of post-colonialism in one of contemporary Singaporean literatures Batas langit by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed: Post-colonial issues explored in the present paper are race, ethnicity, and identity. Latiff has successfully obscured his views about Malay people and their culture. His views are somewhat skeptical and pessimistic. However, Latiff has been successfully transforming the existentialism views into his works, and has made him one of the great authors of Singapore.
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Afolayan, Sola. "The Sick Novel From Anemic State: Sickness As Praxis In The African Novelist’s Agenda." Journal of English Language and Literature 1, no. 1 (February 28, 2014): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v1i1.4.
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The African novel, like most other literary genres from the same region, has thrived under different nomenclatures. Hence within the sub categories of the genre are critics’ labels like pre-colonial, colonial, post colonial, disillusionment, political and apolitical. Interestingly it has been discovered that the christening of the African novel has always been the directives of the self-instructive profile of the genre, adequately powered by the analogous critical idioms supplied by the critics. For instance Chinua Achebe had labeled Armah’s The Beautyful ones are not yet Born as ‘the sick book’ in his popular, and instantaneous criticism of the novel. Little did Achebe know that his emblematic utterance on Armah’s premier narrative would serve as a signature to understand what other African novelists have done in their works. In this essay, we attempt to hypothesize with the notion of ‘sick novel’ in a bid to buttress the enduring themes and tropes in selected novel.
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Manji, Ambreena. "Law, labour and resistance to French colonialism in Sembene Ousmane's Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu." Legal Studies 25, no. 2 (July 2005): 320–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2005.tb00617.x.
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This article is concerned with the portrayal of law in colonial conflict in the work of Senegalese author Sembene Ousmane, focussing in particular on the novel Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu. There Ousmane dramutises an actual strike of railway workers in 1947 in order to mount a prophetic critique of post-independence Senegal. In convening a tribunal to try strike-breakers, the workers demonstrate the constitutive, law-creating power which, Ousmane implies, still resides in newly independent peoples. This alternative legality is achieved in spite of the twin pressures of orthodox universalism, on the one hand, and passive traditionalism, on the other. As such Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu prefigures a radical, emancipatory legal pluralism in the colonial and post-colonial context.
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Chaudhary, Fariha, and Qamar Khushi. "In Search of Identity: A Comparative Feminist Exploration of Muslim Female Sexuality in Ali’s Twilight in Delhi and Shahraz’s The Holy Woman." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 10, no. 1 (March 8, 2015): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v10i1.227.
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A critical exploration of Muslim female sexuality through the feminist analysis of the various female characters in Twilight in Delhi and The Holy Woman, by Ahmad Ali and Qaisra Shahraz respectively, is the central focus of this paper. Theoretical insights have been drawn from Islamic feminism and Postcolonial feminist scholarship for the contextual understanding of female sexuality. Focusing specifically on the issue of female sexuality and marriages, in both of the novels, this paper demonstrates that Muslim women in the postcolonial Pakistan seems to have gained a certain measure of agency as compared to the plight of women in the colonial milieu of Ali’s novel. However, examined closely, as this paper will highlight, women in both of the novels, still in certain ways, remain helpless victims of sexual victimization. This comparative analysis of novels based in two varied settings of colonial and post-colonial Muslim societies reveals that female sexuality remains a stifling point of contention which is predominantly controlled by men.
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Sulistyaningsih, Sulistyaningsih, and Dina Merris Maya Sari. "The Ideological Reflection in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby, (Post-Colonial Literature)." ATAVISME 21, no. 1 (July 20, 2018): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24257/atavisme.v21i1.439.121-132.
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This study aims to disclose the cultural reflection of post-colonialism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. This research uses analytical approach of post-colonial literature in the form of colonial behavior passed down to the weak, namely the colonized who consciously or unconsciously becomes the object of ideological oppression and power hegemony. The data collection techniques were reading, identifying, classifying, interpreting, inferring. The results of the analysis of events in the novel suggest that the descriptions of the colonized ideology are in the forms of hybrid ideology, mimicry, ethnicism, racism, sexism, and classism. The author describes that Gatsby has reflected ideology of hybrid, mimicry, racism, and ethnicism in his struggle to change his social status to be a rich man designated as the Jazz to attract Desy, his former girlfriend who has left him to marry Tom who has reflected ideology of classism and sexism to the colonialized native inhabitant.
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Rommel, Leonardo Von Pfeil, and Alfeu Sparemberger. "A construção da memória da Guerra Colonial em Os cus de Judas, de Lobo Antunes." Navegações 10, no. 1 (September 5, 2017): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1983-4276.2017.1.25252.
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O presente artigo analisa o romance Os cus de Judas, de autoria do escritor português António Lobo Antunes quanto à sua particularidade em estabelecer a construção de uma memória coletiva sobre a Guerra Colonial. Segundo romance do autor, publicado em 1979 em um contexto pós-colonial apenas quatro anos após a Revolução dos Cravos, a narrativa remete à abordagem da exploração da experiência do autor durante sua participação na Guerra Colonial, em Angola, no início da década de 70. Após a Revolução dos Cravos, em abril de 1974, a sociedade portuguesa tenta apagar o passado traumático ligado à guerra e ao Estado Novo a fim de iniciar um movimento de superação de seu passado problemático e aproximar-se da Europa. A produção ficcional apresenta-se como possibilidade de interpretação da dinâmica política e social existente na construção de um novo Portugal após a Guerra Colonial, a Revolução dos Cravos e a descolonização dos territórios ultramarinos. A literatura assume um papel de destaque no Portugal pós-colonial, pois almeja a construção de uma memória coletiva sobre os últimos capítulos do império português.********************************************************************The construction of the Colonial War memory in Os cus de Judas, of Lobo AntunesAbstract: The present article analyzes the novel Os cus de Judas, written by the portuguese writter António Lobo Antunes for their particularity to estabilish the construction of a collective memory about the Colonial War. Second novel of the author published in 1979 in a post-colonial context, just four years after the Carnation Revolution, the narrative refer to approach the exploration of the author’s experience during his participation in the Colonial War in Angola, in the early 1970. After the Carnation Revolution in April 1974, the portuguese society tries to erase the traumatic past linked to the war and the Estado Novo to start a movement of overcoming his troubled past and move closer to Europe. The fictional production is presented as a possible interpretation of the dynamics political and social context in building a new Portugal after the Colonial War, the Carnation Revolution and decolonization of overseas territories. The literature plays an important role in Portugal post-colonial since aims to build a collective memory of the last chapter of the portuguese empire.Keywords: Os cus de Judas; Colonial War; Memory; Post-colonialism
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Chacón, Mario, and Jeffrey Jensen. "Direct Democracy, Constitutional Reform, and Political Inequality in Post-Colonial America." Studies in American Political Development 34, no. 1 (April 2020): 148–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x1900018x.
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The ratification of constitutional changes via referendum is an important mechanism for constraining the influence of elites, particularly when representative institutions are captured. While this electoral device is commonly employed cross-nationally, its use is far from universal. We investigate the uneven adoption of mandatory referendums by examining the divergence between Northern and Southern U.S. states in the post-independence period. We first explore why states in both regions adopted constitutional conventions as the primary mechanism for making revisions to fundamental law, but why only Northern states adopted the additional requirement of ratifying via referendum. We argue that due to distortions in state-level representation, Southern elites adopted the discretionary referendum as a mechanism to bypass the statewide electorate when issues divided voters along slave-dependency lines. We demonstrate the link between biases to apportionment and opposition to mandatory referendums using a novel data set of roll calls from various Southern state conventions, including during the secession crisis of 1861.
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Miyondri, Popi. "ANALISIS TERJEMAHAN BAHASA PERANCIS PADA NOVEL PERBURUAN KARYA PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER." Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra 17, no. 1 (June 8, 2017): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/bs_jpbsp.v17i1.6958.
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This article reveals the results of this analyze the translation into French language of novel Perburuan by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This novel has chosen as our resource of this research because this novel has won the BalaiPustaka award in 1949 in Jakarta and this novel describes the ideology of the people in Indonesia and Japanese colonizer in Japanese colonization period. This study was conducted to answer our two questions, such as how translator translates the novelPerburuan and is the translator is a faithful translator or unfaithful translator?. This study is based on qualitative research by analyzing the translation of title, book cover and also the phrases translated which has indicated a translation style of French translator.we analyze this data by using the theories of translation such as post-colonial translation theory and cultural translation theory for third word countries as our references to analyze the novel translated intitledLe Fugitif by François-René Daillie. The results of this study are the translator is a faithful translator based on the contexte and content in the novel Perburuan. The style of faithful translation aims to convey the author’s intention as faithfully as possible into original version to the French readers.Keywords: Translation, language, novel, post-colonial translation, cultural translation
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Ngeh, Andrew T. "Medium and Credibility in the African Novel: The Novelistic Vision of G.D Nyamndi and Blessed A. Njume." Studies in Media and Communication 5, no. 2 (September 4, 2017): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v5i2.2633.
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The post-colonial African novelist is committed beyond his/her art to a statement of value. Thus he is not interested in art for art’s sake. This study distances itself from Dan S. Izevbaye’s 1971 position for a ‘suppressed social reference’ in literary discourse. The post-colonial novelist believes that he must be socially committed in order to be universally engaged. In his/her novelistic vision, he/she questions the very foundation of the independence of most African nations. There is a consensus amongst African creative writers that the independence of most African countries is a sham because independence means self-determination. George D. Nyamndi in his The Sins of Babi Yar (2012) and Blessed Ambang Njume in his In a Web (2016) set out to bring out the visionary role of a committed writer and his moral obligation to his society. Using the medium of effective communication, the two novelists highlight corruption and the abuse of power as banes to socio-political development in Cameroon in particular and Africa as a whole. Using new historicism and the concept of socialist realism to interpret, evaluate and analyse the two novels under study, the paper explores and highlights the moral responsibility of a committed novelist in post-colonial African society. In this light, this study submits that the law courts, the judiciary, the military, the church and the educational systems in post-independent Africa are conduits and mechanisms for the propagation of neocolonialism and imperialism. Rev. Father Aaron in a Web and Justice Dan Mowena in The Sins of Babi Yar provide clear justifications for these social ills.
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Mthembu, Ntokozo. "Possibility of a Novel Caliber of Leadership in the 21st Century: A Post-colonial Perspective." Open Journal for Sociological Studies 3, no. 2 (December 17, 2019): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0302.04067m.
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Tamuli, Simona. "Things Fall Apart: Manifestation of Oral Tradition of Igbo Community in A Post Colonial Novel." Journal of Global Communication 14, no. 1 (2021): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0976-2442.2021.00008.2.
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Klohinlwélé, Kone. "Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born in the History of African Literature: A Critical Analysis of a Landmark Novel." KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts 2, no. 1 (August 20, 2021): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/jla.v2i1.111.
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This study shows the central position held by Ayi Kwei Aramh’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born in the African literary world. It tries to prove that the publishing of this work was a landmark in the early post-colonial context of African literature. Through a series of breaks from still prevailing colonial and neocolonial literary discourses, it has initiated an innovative aesthetics which has left a tremendous legacy which is being continued by subsequent generations.
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Riaz, Sadia, and Farhan Ebadat Yar Khan. "LINGUISTIC VACUUM PREVALENT IN MARGIN/CENTRE POLEMIC." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 55, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v55i2.82.
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The research paper addresses the unresolved linguistic vacuum that accounts for the authorial and fictional abrogation and appropriation of language in Lessing’s works. This research paper attempts to take a holistic view of these implications. Lessing has used a number of methods to overcome this inadequacy and the abrogation and appropriation of language thus seen is clearly evident in her novel The Grass is Singing. The concepts of hegemony of language by the colonizers and their control over the means of communications as well as the attempts to liberate the language by the blacks were seen in the novel. In order to analyze the post-colonial aspects of the novel, one has to keep in mind the colonial features that were seen in The Grass is Singing. Thus, the process of abrogation and appropriation will be seen through the fictional characters of Mary and Moses. With these characters Lessing highlights the larger reality of the center-margin, colonizer-colonized relation in the novel. Natives on acquiring control over the Language and the ability to control the means of communication then reveal the hollowness of the colonial ideas based on oppression and exploitation of the indigenous people.
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Goswami, Ramen. "Thematic Voyage, Images and Symbols; Household Disagreement and Post-Colonial Situation in Upamanayu Chatterjee’s The Last Burden." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. VI (June 15, 2021): 1178–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.35157.
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Upamanayu Chatterjee is born in 1959 at Patna, Bihar. He is one of the original brilliant Indian writers of the modern generation. He is a commanding emergent voice in Indian postcolonial creative writing. He has written a handful of short stories and fictions. His English, August: An Indian story was first published in 1988 and reprinted in 2006. This is one of the significant urban Indian coming-of-age novel. His other novels include The Last Burden (1994), The Mammaries of the Welfare State (2000)- a sequel to The English August, Weight Loss (2006) , and Way to Go (2010)-a sequel to The Last Burden. Keywords: Burden, middle class family, portrays, patriarchy, emotions
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Livingston, Robert Eric. "Ngugi and African Post-Colonial Narrative: The Novel as Oral Narrative in Multi-Genre Performance (review)." Research in African Literatures 31, no. 2 (2000): 216–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2000.0059.
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