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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) · Culture · Featured

Colonialité du pouvoir, postcolonialité du rap : l’émergence et la répression d’un rap français structuré autour de la critique postcoloniale dans les années 2000

Author: Keivan Djavadzadeh

Cet article se propose d’interroger le tournant postcolonial opéré par le rap français dans les années 2000 en s’intéressant à la fois à l’émergence d’une critique postcoloniale dans cette musique[...]

"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[...]

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

De l’humour noir aux caricatures : impensés d’une tradition satirique

Author: Isolde Lecostey

Liberté d’expression et humour font l’objet d’une quête permanente de leurs limites. C’est un truisme de rappeler que la liberté n’est pas l’espace ouvert à tous les possibles contenus dans[...]

"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:[...]

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No is Yes (poetry)

Author: Manash Bhattacharjee

Let us treat Yes as a No…and No as a Yes ~ Nikos Karouzos, ‘Texts/Non-fiction/Prose’ Greece, Your no is also a yes To other things, You spurned usurers For Athens’[...]

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Reading and Mis-Reading Frantz Fanon

Author: Sara Salem

“Fanon was angry. His readers should still be angry too. Angry that the wretched of the earth are still with us. Anger does not in itself produce political programs for[...]

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« Je suis Charlie » ? Laïcité, islam et guerre de l’erreur

Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

Quelle réponse, s’inscrivant dans une perspective postcoloniale, apporter aux attentats terroristes qui ont eu lieu à l’encontre du journal satirique français Charlie Hebdo, et ont conduit au massacre brutal de[...]

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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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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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What does French National Unity Look Like? Personal Reflections on Charlie Hebdo

Author: Laura Reeck

On sabbatical in France, two days before the attacks in Paris I delved back into an essay in progress on immigrant and ethnic minority writing. Writing it has required solving[...]

"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[...]

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

Intersectionnalité et féminismes arabes avec Kimberlé Crenshaw

Author: Ines Horchani

Dans « Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex : A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics[1]» (1989), Kimberlé Crenshaw explique pourquoi le féminisme afro-américain[...]

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

Mai 68 au service de l’interdiscursivité médiatique : entre mémoire révolutionnaire et mémoire discursive. Deux approches interdisciplinaires : lexiculture et mots événements

Author: Cristina Onesta

« Il faut liquider l’héritage de Mai 68 » : est-ce possible aujourd’hui ? Ce phénomène historique semble être désormais enraciné dans la culture et l’histoire françaises, comme s’il était[...]

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

Mythology, Taboo and Cultural Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Author: Alissa Simon

The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak, discusses the complexities presented by political upheaval and cultural stereotype. Shafak portrays two families, one Armenian and one Turkish, who share strong cultural[...]

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

Au Carrefour du didactisme brechtien et de la résistance post-coloniale : Protestants (2004) de Robert Welch

Author: Virginie Privas Bréauté

La pièce monologique apparaît en Irlande et en Irlande du Nord dans les années 1980, une vingtaine d’années après que Samuel Beckett s’y est intéressé. Pourtant, si, sur l’île, elle[...]

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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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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 [...]

"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) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch

Author: Martin Repinecz

Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]

"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1)

L’actualité du patrimoine: Les formes d’extensivité historique et géographique de l’identité moderne

Author: Nathanaël Wadbled

« Notre activité suppose toujours l’intelligence d’autres personnes ; une bonne partie du bonheur humain consiste à ressentir des états d’âme étrangers. Le sens historique permet alors à l’homme moderne[...]

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Labyrinths of memories: A conversation with Francisco Zamora Loboch

Author: Martin Repinecz

Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]

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Cineasti afrodiscendenti in Italia: Un doppio campo di battaglia

Author: Leonardo De Franceschi

Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]

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A Brazilian Take on the Writings of Stuart Hall

Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Negarra Akili Kudumu, editor. … I think that anyone seriously engaged in cultural studies, as intellectual practice,[...]

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