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    Monthly Archive: February 2014

    Neighbours

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    Vecinos. Neighbours. Film Review: “Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else”

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]

    Public-Humanities

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    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

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    Dialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany Laferrière to the Académie Française

    Author: Clint Bruce

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Addie Leak, a freelance translator based in France.   Moreover, the idea itself of classifying writers[...]

    GrassIsSinging

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    Film Review: Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (Michael Raeburn, 1981)

    Author: Elizabeth Taylor

    “It is more important to buy a sjambok than a plough” was the advice the prosperous Charlie Muller gave to the young farmer Dick Turner. The sjambok, a long whip[...]

    FireInTheBlood

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    Fire in the Blood: Medicine, Monopoly, and AIDS in the Global South

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    The story of the global pharmaceutical industry’s complicity in the AIDS related deaths of millions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is a story that, like politics and religion, gets[...]

    Kinda-Hibrawi-featured

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    Seeing Syria: Kinda Hibrawi’s Twitter Portraits

    Author: The Editors

    Photos Copyright: Kinda Hibrawi This piece is part of a continuing series in which The Postcolonialist seeks to highlight and engage issues of refugee status, conflict, and asylum. As the[...]

    Hassan-Musa

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    Poétique du tableau offert : Entretien avec Hassan Musa

    Author: Alisa Belanger

    Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [U]ne image, dans le fond, c’est comme une bouteille à la mer. J’écris un message que je mets dans une bouteille, que je lance à la mer. Elle[...]

    Hassan-Musa

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    Poetics of the Visual Text: Interview with Hassan Musa

    Author: Alisa Belanger

    Photo Source: hassanmusa.com [A]n image, deep down, is like a bottle thrown into the sea.  I write a message that I put into a bottle, that I throw to the sea.[...]

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