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Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]
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Santurce es un área que cuenta con una escena artística y cultural variada. Antiguamente un municipio por derecho propio conocido como San Mateo de Cangrejos, hoy día es un barrio[...]
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Article Photo Credits: Samira Idroos The Play There are moments in history when a single word can represent an existential struggle between self-perceived opposites. Haram is such a word in[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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[...]
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“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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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With the impending presidential elections and the withdrawal of international forces, 2014 is a foreboding year for Afghanistan. However, there is more to the country than war and violence. There[...]
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(Read the English version below) J’ai rencontré Jilali Hamham à Angers quelques mois après la parution de son premier roman, MachiAdam chez Rivages/Noir. Il m’a fait visiter sa ville, il[...]
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[L]’idée même de classer les écrivains par langue est déjà pour moi une idée assez provinciale. Je ne suis pas un écrivain de langue française, ni francophone, je suis un[...]
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Recently elected to the Académie française, Dany Laferrière is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. The Postcolonialist editor Pénélope Cormier interviewed him on October 10, 2013, just before his candidacy was announced. An English translation of the interview[...]
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What if we declared ourselves perpetual refugees in solidarity with all refugees needing safe human harbor from violence and domination and injustice and inequality? …We are all refugees horribly displaced[...]
Una masa casi indefinible de cuerpos en descomposición cubre el fondo del Océano Atlántico y se extiende a lo largo de las noventa millas entre La Habana y Miami. Ya[...]
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“Civil War doesn’t start when countrymen raise their weapons against each other. It starts when they lose their humanity,” commented Egypt’s notorious political satirist Bassem Youssef, following the military dispersal[...]
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In his new documentary, God Loves Uganda (2013), director Rodger Ross Williams trains a sharply focused lens on the Evangelical missionaries travelling from Missouri to “The Pearl of Africa” to[...]
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L’étude des courants artistiques postcoloniaux dans le champ de la recherche scientifique se caractérise par une lecture relativement tardive des mouvements et de leurs contextes d’émergence. Si les Postcolonial Studies[...]
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Krudas Cubensi (Las Krudas) son un grupo de rap formado en Cuba durante la década de los 90 con tres integrantes: Odaymara Cuesta, Olivia Prendes, y Odalys Cuesta (conocida como[...]
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¡Oh innoble servidumbre de amar seres humanos, y la más innoble que es amarse a sí mismo! “Contra Jaime Gil de Biedma” Jaime Gil de Biedma El mito de Narciso[...]
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Introduction Parallèlement à la crise sociale et politique qui secoue ce pays d’Afrique de l’ouest depuis deux décennies, la musique urbaine des jeunes a connu un développement prodigieux en Côte[...]
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Introduction Depuis les premiers contacts entre les Européens et les Africains, l’écriture est devenue un outil de communication indispensable pour le continent africain. En effet, non seulement elle a rendu[...]
Florcy Morisset is the founder and curator of Vivant Art Collection, a Philadelphia-based art gallery dedicated to displaying and promoting Haitian and other Caribbean art in the United States. Haiti,[...]
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In cultural, literary and postcolonial studies, hybridity, syncretism, creolization, métissage have become common tropes. (…) if everything is hybrid, what does hybridity mean? Hence the next question to come up[...]
