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    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

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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[...]

    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[...]

    Arturo lampedusa 202

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    Lampedusa: Lettera al Presidente della Repubblica (Letter to the Italian President)

    Author: Askavusa (blog)

    Issues of immigration, refugees, and asylum continue to blur the definition of national borders and call for a renewed debate on human rights. The Postcolonialist supports continued conversations on such[...]

    Lampeusa-Montalbano

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    Superstiti e bare: Il Tradimento dell’Europa (Survivors and Caskets: The Betrayal of Europe)

    Author: Enrico Montalbano

    Cronaca di una giornata di sbarchi a Porto Empedocle: il 13 di ottobre 2013. Video da Enrico Montalbano. English translation L’arrivo di due navi militari, durante l’arco di tutta la giornata,[...]

    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 Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    EU Territorial Control, Western Immigration Policies, and the Transformation of North Africa

    Author: Kelsey Norman

    New countries of settlement On August 19th I observed as some three hundred people — migrants, activists and a few officials — gathered outside a morgue in Rabat to mourn[...]

    Creative

    Lettre d’un Citoyen Engagé à L’Empereur du Grand Empire (année 2560 après Jésus-Christ)

    Author: Umar Timol

    Maître, J’ai longuement réfléchi avant de vous écrire. Je sais que vous avez de nombreuses préoccupations et non des moindres. Vous êtes à la tête du plus vaste Empire de[...]

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

    Le 1er festival de théâtre populaire des travailleurs immigrés de Suresnes : naissance d’une lutte et d’une esthétique postcoloniales

    Author: Jeanne Le Gallic

    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[...]

    Uturo-Catalana1

    Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lampedusa: “An Island Full of Pain; It Carries the Weight of the World’s Indifference” *

    Author: Tina Catania

    (Photo Source: Arthur Urbano) * Translated from Lampedusa protest sign for Letta’s visit: http://www.giovanilampedusa.it/notizie/681-immigrati-barroso-letta-contestazioni-lampedusa.html Why should we care now? Now that it makes American news? Now that it’s translated into English?[...]

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

    Écrire l’hybridité d’Haïti autour de la figure du roi Christophe, dans Le Royaume de ce monde de Carpentier et La Tragédie du roi Christophe de Césaire

    Author: Cyrielle Dodet

    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[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Toward a Political Economy of the Postcolonial

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Ever since the early 1980s when postcolonial studies was initially introduced to academia, the discipline has not ceased to grow. It has moved from its initial literary venture consisting of[...]

    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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