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Project

Postcolonial theorization: identity, hybridity, creolisation and liminality

This project explores the postcolonial theorization on constructs such as identity, hybridity, creolisation and liminality. It focuses on the writing of Black Afrikaans speakers, Dutch Caribbean and immigrant writers. The quostion is how these writers represent the world, how they engage in the dominant discourses and in which way they make use of their vernacular and folkloric elements.

Date:15 Oct 2010 →  14 Apr 2011
Keywords:postcolonial, creolisation, identity, Afrikaans
Disciplines:Language studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics