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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Excitable Speech and the Politics of the Womb – Wake Up Grrrl!

    Author: Ritu Mathur

    A global  ‘War on Terror’ is being waged against women’s rights.[1] A rancid war waged on a historically notorious terrain of gendered, asymmetrical power relations.  A battle of bugle calls[...]

    Soumission

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured

    L’inquiétante liberté de la littérature: Le cas de Soumission de Michel Houellebecq

    Author: David Bélanger

    On peut lire du désespoir dans la question – fameuse, rituelle, depuis longtemps routinisée – que pose Antoine Compagnon dans sa conférence inaugurale au Collège de France : Pourquoi parler –[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured

    Soumission de Houellebecq : ¿Islamófoba, decadente o misógina?

    Author: Josefina Bueno Alonso

    ¿Qué ocurre cuando una novela da que hablar antes de su publicación? ¿Qué ocurre cuando se la conoce sólo por uno de los temas que aborda? Sin duda, la última[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Braving Oceans: Migration and Subjective “Illegality” from the Pilgrim Fathers to Boat Migrants

    Author: Fodei Batty

    One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]

    Haiti-Slaves

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    From Port-au-Prince to Baltimore, with Love

    Author: Lesley Curtis

    A cartoon joking about the ease with which Haitians gained their freedom from French rule bounced around Facebook this week, as protests continued in Baltimore following the death of Freddie[...]

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    Call for Papers · Featured

    Call for Papers, Spring/Summer 2015: “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom”

    Author: The Editors

    The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of The Postcolonialist invites submissions that explore, analyze, challenge, and re-stage the complex power dynamics involved in determining “free speech,” “freedom of information,” and “radical speech,”[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Defending Charlie Hebdo? Secularism, Islam and the War on Error

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Photo Credit What postcolonial response can be made of the terrorist attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which led to the brutal massacre of most its editorial board? On[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Letter from the Editors: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis”

    Author: The Editors

    The year 2014 marked twenty-five years since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how social realities such as “class” or “race” should not be analyzed in isolation, but[...]

    Django-12years

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Economies of Enjoyment and Terror in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave

    Author: Zachary Price, PhD

    Introduction Hollywood has had, at best, an oblique relationship to America’s longest running nightmare, slavery. As Donald Bogle demonstrated in Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured

    “Vignettes” – Havana, Cuba, 2014 (by Annie McNeill Gibson)

    Author: Annie McNeill Gibson

    Introducción I walk over the broken eggshells on the corner of E and 13 and wonder what paths Eleguá opened today? Cuba is the daughter of Ochún. Be careful because[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Mexico’s Border (In)Security

    Author: Rebecca Galemba

    Nearly every block of the former sleepy colonial town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, Mexico now hosts a “Travel Agency”, which advertises trips to Tecate, Baja California, Altar, Sonora, and Tijuana,[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Culture · Featured · Releases

    This Borderland Called My Sexuality: Excavating Queer Nightlife of the American Southwest Through the Lens of Intersectionality

    Author: Kris Klein Hernandez

    Theories of intersectionality, established and cultivated by specialists such as Kimberlé Crenshaw and Patricia Hill Collins, have transformed the manner in which researchers deconstruct interconnecting notions of race, gender, and[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Black Gay Genius (Book Review)

    Author: Egbert Alejandro Martina

    Travelling with Joseph in the Wake Black Gay Genius, an anthology edited by Steven Fullwood and Charles Stevens, opens with a meditation, a series of haunting questions that linger and will,[...]

    Hmland

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Framing Muslim Women: The Problem with Homeland’s Season 4 Campaign

    Author: Mariam Karim

    Image Credit: Wikipedia On my last trip to NYC, I was overwhelmed with Homeland season four’s new advertisement campaign plastered on almost every public bus in the city. The American[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    A Colonial Miseducation: Language & Unmaking Canadian Identity

    Author: Lee Skallerup Bessette

    I was born in Quebec the same year that Bill 101, or The Charter of the French Language, was passed in the Canadian province. There was something strange, in terms[...]

    ThisCountryIsALieAndWell-Galanin

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Transcendence, Transformation and Continuum: Summer 2014 at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    * All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Refugees, Language, Family, and Cooking: Sermon Excerpt by Ashley Makar

    Author: Ashley Makar

    Everyday at IRIS, the refugee resettlement agency where I work, I can see the shape of justice in a photo that was taken by a volunteer who chartered a bus[...]

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    Call for Papers: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis” (Fall 2014)

    Author: Editors

      The past decade has seen a wave of socio-political and economic changes across the globe. We are witnessing geopolitical conflict on a local as well as international scale, intensified[...]

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    Creative

    Accidents Waiting to Happen (fiction)

    Author: Lina Sergie Attar

    I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds                      [...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured

    Ivy League Foundational Narratives and Academic Disciplinary Hierarchies

    Author: Silvia Spitta

    [H]e was considered the foremost of authorities on the Mexicans of Texas.  Hank Harvey had been born in New York City some sixty years before.  He had gone to grade[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “To Hell with that Man Business!”: Gender Anxieties in The Salt Mines and The Transformation

    Author: Darren Arquero

    Introduction Panning through the dismal space of out-of-service garbage trucks against a dreary city skyline, the opening scene of The Salt Mines (1990) introduces us to Sara, a self-identified Latina[...]

    Haram-featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Haram: Staging Love & Revolution in Los Angeles

    Author: Ahmed Younis

    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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    Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Theorizing Lived Experiences: A Personal Reflection on Stuart Hall

    Author: Sara Salem

    Stuart Hall was undoubtedly one of the most important academics of our time. His work on culture, globalization, ethnicity and representation has not only influenced multiple fields within academia, but[...]

    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[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

    Arts · Featured · Magazine

    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[...]

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