Within what we call the postcolonial or the metropolitan societies, there are different, layered presents. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The preservation of the white settlers and their economic activities, capital, and management, which in postcolonial countries were pretty much impossible to replace, was an imperative that was beneficial both for the whites and the natives, for the simple reason that it would be difficult for the economy to grow in a healthy and sustainable manner otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2010)
35 Moreover, an important conceptual shiftfrom "life history" to "personal narrative" helped, by the 1980s, to move this literature beyond dead-end debates about the "truthfulness" of testimony uttered within postcolonial field encounters. ❋ Unknown (2005)
It’s true that most of the really vicious killers in postcolonial Africa were personalistic rather then ideological, and that most of the Soviet and Cuban clients were not notably brutal, but their support of the Ethiopian regime is a big black mark on both of them. abb1 says: ❋ Unknown (2010)
One of the most disputed terms in postcolonial studies, ‘hybridity 'commonly refers to “the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonisation.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
The very close relationship in critical writing between texts identified as postcolonial and postcolonial criticism and theory is part of what makes the big picture look this way, I think: that is, as a commentor pointed out at The Valve, it is typical for postcolonial texts to be addressed by postcolonial critics, which means they are known and talked about within a relatively specific ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even here in cosmopolitan London last July, at events for the Caine Prize for African Writing, students and others posed questions within the same framework, using the word "postcolonial" like it was going out of style. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)
I'm glad that she also questions that tired old label "postcolonial", so beloved of literature departments and used to describe literatures from all those parts of the globe that were once coloured pink. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)
It’s not every day you can call a postcolonial novel a ‘feel-good’ book. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Said's multi-disciplinary approach, his treatment of poetry, news coverage and colonial administration documents as aspects of one cultural continuum, was hugely influential in academia, helping to spawn a host of 'postcolonial' studies. ❋ Robin Yassin-Kassabc (2010)
According to the author, this European identification with the Israelis works even better with the "Holocaust culture" that offers the new European "a better version of his own identity vis-à-vis the colonial past and the 'postcolonial' present". ❋ Unknown (2010)
Your second point, about the distinction between postcolonialism as reading strategies and literature labelled "postcolonial" rightly identifies a slippage in my usage of that term, one I struggled with -- but one that I think does happen in a more general way, in that books coming from "postcolonial" places are read with an emphasis on the kinds of issues (political, national) that are also primary in postcolonial theory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For starters, I now understand that there was a time when (particularly in certain fields of study besides literature, such as history, economics, or political science) "postcolonial" meant more or less just what it sounds like, that is, it was a chronological marker meaning after the end of colonial rule. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Certainly, there is much in Oleanna that rings frighteningly true: An ex-graduate-student friend of mine who came to see it with me told me at intermission of an actual incident he witnessed not so long ago, where most of a class of students walked out and tried to shut it down because the professor's reading list wasn't "postcolonial" enough; he didn't know yet that Carol was going to come on in the final scene with her own reading-list demands for John's class. ❋ J. KELLY NESTRUCK (2011)
What's special about April? she's kinda cute .. oh you mean the month? er .. not much:) lilacs are part of the whole "postcolonial" thing, but maybe less than lavender. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2006)
The British, by ending this dynasty and thus breaking the link between Buddhism and Hinduism, helped set the stage for the polarization of politics in the postcolonial era. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My doctoral dissertation was about colonial or postcolonial literature, so I thought I'd give it a shot. ❋ James Wallenstein (2011)
