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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

    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[...]

    GrassIsSinging

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    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[...]

    FireInTheBlood

    Arts · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Fire in the Blood: Medicine, Monopoly, and AIDS in the Global South

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    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[...]

    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

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    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[...]

    OscarLopezRivera

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Oscar López Rivera, Nelson Mandela, and U. S. Colonialism (English)

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    (Articulo en español) Oscar López Rivera is a freedom fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico. He has the unenviable distinction of being the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in[...]

    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[...]

    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[...]

    Celeste Liddle Photo 1

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Indigenous Feminism, Politics and the Importance of Intersectionality: A Conversation with Celeste Liddle

    Author: Maja Milatovic

    Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte Australian woman who lives in Melbourne. She is the current National Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). She has previously worked in[...]

    mandela

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Hamba Kahle Tata: A Tribute to Nelson Mandela

    Author: Thandiwe Matthews

    There is an overwhelming sense of pride that comes with being South African. Wherever I go in the world, the shadow cast by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela envelops me and my[...]

    Lampeusa-Montalbano

    Creative · Featured

    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

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    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[...]

    Juan De Los Muertos

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    Terror y horror en el cine contemporáneo del Caribe

    Author: Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, PhD

    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[...]

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

    Feminist critique and Islamic feminism: the question of intersectionality

    Author: Sara Salem

    Introduction “Religion can contribute to a post-patriarchal world.” [1] The silence around feminism and religion is a profound one, and its roots lie in the metanarrative of secularising[2] that influences[...]

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

    A balança comercial do agronegócio brasileiro e a questão fundiária

    Author: Newton Narciso Gomes Junior, Raimundo Pires Silva, and Erica Ramos Andrade

    Introdução A última década, situada em um contexto internacional favorável, de protagonismo do capital financeiro, de alta demanda por recursos naturais e commodities agrícolas (das quais o país é grande[...]

    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[...]

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