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    Igbo school girls

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Language as a Narrative of Post-Contact Dynamics in Nigeria

    Author: Chidi Ugwu

    C. Wright Mills’ sociological imagination draws attention to the fact that a number of social connections inform the apparently personal life of the individual. Today, even for those who are[...]

    Brasileiros(2)

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    “Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation”

    Author: Sarah Lempp

    To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place[...]

    Neighbours

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    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

    Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    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[...]

    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[...]

    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

    Arts · Culture · Magazine

    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.[...]

    Palestine Wall

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Mockingjay Delusions: The Hunger Games and the Postcolonial Revolution to Come

    Author: Jamil Khader, Ph.D.

    An earlier, abbreviated version of this piece appeared previously on Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/when-revolution-comes-israel-2013121112851708923.html The Hunger Games franchise has been hailed for spreading a new hopeful message of revolution to millennials[...]

    The-Little-Book-of-Kabul

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    The Little Book of Kabul: a project by Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    Author: Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    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[...]

    Syria-Refugee-Children

    Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    A Day in Atmeh: Reflections and Images from Syria

    Author: Maysaloon and Mohamad Ojjeh

    Photo Credit:  © Mohamad Ojjeh, 2013 (Syria) Last December, we visited the Turkish town of Reyhanli, close to the Syrian border, to volunteer at a local Syrian school for refugee[...]

    Oscar Lopez Rivera

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Oscar López Rivera, Nelson Mandela y el colonialismo de los Estados Unidos (Español)

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Photo Credit:  © Lara Dotson-Renta, 2013 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) (Article in English) Oscar López Rivera es un luchador por la independencia de Puerto Rico. Tiene la distinción nada envidiable[...]

    Jilali-Hamham

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    Entretien avec Jilali Hamham, écrivain de MachiAdam (with English translation)

    Author: Laura Reeck

    (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[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

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    Dialectique de l’immortalité: Pour situer l’élection de Dany Laferrière à l’Académie française

    Author: Clint Bruce

    [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[...]

    Dany-Laffiere-2

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    Entrevue avec Dany Laferrière, récemment élu à l’Académie française (Interview with Dany Laferrière, recently elected to the Académie française)

    Author: Pénélope Cormier

    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[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “Woman Walking Heavy/Brown Worlds in her Face”: Global(ized) Identities and Universal Patriotism in the poetry of Suheir Hammad

    Author: Soraya Abuelhiga

    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[...]

    Paulo Friere

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Afetos, educação ambiental e política: Encontros com Nita e Paulo Freire.

    Author: Marcos Reigota

    Em ensaio sobre os encontros e desencontros da vida cotidiana, Margaret Chillemi observa que os encontros afetuosos são como devires carregados de potências que nos tornam mais fortes e resistentes[...]

    AbuBakr

    Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Egypt: Everyone is Right, But Everyone is Wrong

    Author: Abu Bakr Shawky

    “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[...]

    AmandaRogers-Featured

    Creative · Culture · Featured

    Picturing Legitimacy: Snapshots from the Arab World (Photo Series by Amanda Rogers)

    Author: Amanda Rogers

    These photographs arose out of a long-standing interest in the modes of authority—religious, economic, political and cultural—in visual culture across the world. This set of images, dated between 2010 and[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Culture

    “For the Land of All Mongols”: Gada Meiren the Bandit, Hero, and Proto-Revolutionary

    Author: Anne Henochowicz

    On April 4, 1931, Old Gada (Lao Gada 老嘎达) and his guerilla troops were surrounded by the Fengtian (Manchurian) army on three sides and the Shar Mörön River on the[...]

    LasKrudas

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Hip hop cubano: entrevista con Las Krudas

    Author: Lara Dotson-Renta, PhD

    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[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    « Gbê est mieux que drap » : la musique urbaine, le nouchi et la révolte des jeunes en Côte d’Ivoire depuis les années 1990

    Author: Germain-Arsène Kadi

    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[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    Littérature postcoloniale et transfert de l’héritage culturel : le dilemme linguistique des écrivains africains

    Author: Kouamé Adou

    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[...]

    Vivant-Art-Collection

    Arts · Culture · Magazine

    Haitian Art in the United States: An Interview with Florcy Morisset

    Author: V. Shayne Frederick

    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,[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    Gouvernance et développement durable dans le roman africain de langue française : l’exemple d’En Attendant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages d’Ahmadou Kourouma

    Author: Adama SAMAKE

    Introduction La gouvernance est une notion complexe. Synonyme de gouvernement à l’origine, elle est reprise dans les années 1980 par les institutions de Breton Woods (FMI, Banque mondiale) et doublée[...]

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