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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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[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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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[...]
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,[...]
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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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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[...]
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
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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(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
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[...]
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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
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[...]
