Most post-colonial African literature was previously, well, anti-colonial. As soon as the “Wind of Change” speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliament of South Africa ...
Professor Isabel Hofmeyr opened her lecture Monday evening by taking the audience underwater. At the start of her talk, she detailed the dumping of books deemed unacceptable by the British Empire’s ...
In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the North African nation gained its independence following one of the longest and most intense ...
In early summer, Nicole Legnani, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, anticipated a key hurdle in order to teach virtually in fall 2020. Legnani was planning her graduate seminar on colonial ...
About the book: This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novels struggled with their debt to colonial adventure literature. The books revel in swash and buckle and Mighty Whitey heroes lifted from the milieu of writers as various as ...
Michelle Coupal receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is affiliated with the University of Regina.
South Asian literature is not a novel concept. Some consider the literature of the Indian subcontinent to be older than that of many Western nations. Western academics have long studied the mythology ...
Writing is about finding voice in the nuances of the human experience, Tanzanian author and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah said at an event Sept. 14. The event, titled “A Conversation with Nobel ...
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