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Minor genres in postcolonial literatures Ghent University
Channeling Post-Colonial Caribbean Literature toward a North American Readership: A study in Translation of the Works of Maryse Condé KU Leuven
Channeling Post-Colonial Caribbean Literature toward a North American Readership:
A Study in Translation of the Works of Maryse Condé Krista J. SLAGLE Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Summary of Project In this discussion of translation and postcolonial literature, I unite investigations of empire, postcolonialism, plurilingualism, and theories which address selected topoi from two works by Guadeloupean author, Maryse Condé, Traversée de la ...
A Study in Translation of the Works of Maryse Condé Krista J. SLAGLE Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Summary of Project In this discussion of translation and postcolonial literature, I unite investigations of empire, postcolonialism, plurilingualism, and theories which address selected topoi from two works by Guadeloupean author, Maryse Condé, Traversée de la ...
Italiens d’Erythrée, Erythréens d’Italie. La littérature postcoloniale italienne des écrivains d’origine érythréenne Vrije Universiteit Brussel
La colonisation de l'Erythrée commença avec l'acquisition du port d'Assab, acheté en 1869 par la compagnie Rubattino, ensuite abandonnée pendant presque une décennie. En réalité l'idée initiale du gouvernement italien était celle d'aider les anglais dans une marche aventureuse sur Khartoum, au Soudan, qui se serait probablement terminée avec un désastre militaire. Mais face à la « non volonté » de l'Angleterre de poursuivre la colonisation du ...
L’utopisme postcolonial chez Fouad Laroui : La Vieille dame du Riad et Les Tribulations du dernier Sijilmassi Ghent University
Jean-Marc Moura sees in irony one of the formal elements characterizing postcolonial literatures, whereas Bill Ashcroft points out that “created works always offer an imminent rearrangement of social and political relations in ways that critique the present”, thus remaining “alive and constantly on the threshold of a future world”. Since irony and critique are among the main features of Fouad Laroui’s works, this paper aims to analyze their ...
European Peripheries in the Postcolonial Literary Imaginary Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Beyond the dead end : Gikuyus and Englishes in colonial and postcolonial debates on language and decolonizing (Kenya) Ghent University
The language of African literature has been the subject of fierce debate. Often the start of this debate is placed at the Makerere conference in the 1960s and summarized by the different opinions of two titans of African literature - Achebe and Ngũgĩ. While Achebe sees no problems in using English as an African writer, for Ngũgĩ_ this is anathema: he views English as an imperial language imposed on Africans during the colonial era. Here I argue ...