After reading Rushdie's major works, it may be stated that he is a post-colonial writer in the sense that his impulse is to always deconstruct the colonizer/colonized binary. In doing so, he attempts to clear a new space, "the third principle," where as Albert Memmi states one c…
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The hypothesis underlying this study is that the content and style of the displays in self-designated national museums can afford valuable insights as to the concepts of national identity held by those institutions' authorities. Two related research questions were therefore addr…
The goal of this thesis is twofold: (1) to analyze the ontology, function, and purpose of literary theory through a close reading of traditional aesthetics and the phenomenon known as post-coloniality in their African and diasporan dimensions; and (2) to propose a new theory. Th…
The literatures emerging from the postcolonial world bring new dimensions of linguistic heterogeneity to English literature, opening up rich possibilities for the heteroglossia and interanimation of languages celebrated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Two case studies illustrate the “breaki…
What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals is a study of the different processes through which four figures, C. L. R. James, Stuart Hall, Muhammad Ali and Bob Marley, construct themselves as postcolonial intellectuals. I am concerned here with the ways in in which thes…
As post-colonial theory notes, women's lived-experiences, particularly women of the “third world,” have not been present in the narratives of nation-states. By listening to and reading stories of decolonization, narratives of legitimacy, and narratives of the inheritance of cult…
Many scholars, critics and popular culture agree that colonialism has impoverished, marginalized, destabilized and deprived Africa of her voice for years. Africa has been in danger of losing its identity within the global economy by fast internalizing an array of colonial cultur…
This dissertation is about the appropriation of classical Greek plots, personae, and even entire texts in Anglophone postcolonial works propounding themes of reconciliation. Key primary texts analyzed in the dissertation include James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Derek Walcott's epic…
This dissertation examines place, alternative histories, postcolonial identities and contested issues of multiculturalism in Australia through the medium of community-based theatre and other performances. The title, “Dramas in Darwin,” refers both to the coalitional, intercultur…
This study examines works of twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon…
This dissertation makes three related theoretical points. First, transitology—the theory that all former Soviet states are now constructing new institutions based upon Western models of market economies and democracies—is theoretically and empirically flawed. Instead, a post-col…
This dissertation examines the creation of a "third space" out of the rigid binary structure of dominance and subjugation under post-colonial conditions in the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston. Employing the subversive politics of difference, minorit…
A cross-cultural feminist study of writings about motherhood and colonialism, this dissertation analyzes three contemporary literary works of women of color dealing with the maternal experience of enslaved and colonized women. The works are Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) set in …
The current displacement crisis in the German context has focused scholarly attention on refugee student access to higher education. However, much less research has attended to supports at higher education institutions (HEIs) for enrolled migrant and refugee students. In fact, e…
Until recently, the possibility of multiple understandings of post-colonial conflicts had not received proper attention in the field of post-colonialism. Colonial theorists, in their effort to bring to our consciousness the evils of colonialism, have all too quickly subsumed the…
Indonesian modern theatre and nationalism have developed alongside each other since the 1920s, both attempting to represent Indonesian identity as a hybrid figure mediating between an exogenous modernity and indigenous traditions. The PROBLEM is that the artists and the politici…
This study identifies the organizing principle behind Wole Soyinka's writing and politics and demonstrates its manifestation in four aspects of his work: his philosophical and theoretical comments upon culture, politics, art, and literature; his conception of the "post-colonial …
The growth of a nationalist consciousness in the literature of the late colonial period in India dates back to the 1880s, when both native and European Orientalists began to suggest the idea that the uniqueness of a “nation” was a function of the living cultural forms of the sub…
This dissertation is about late state formation and state-led socio-economic transformation. I argue that state formation during the 19 th and 20th centuries followed a pattern fundamentally different from that of the early Western European cases. This contrast is due to the fac…