Building upon our previous work, The Postcolonialist seeks new submissions for its next issue, “Postcolonial Apertures: Horizons of (De)Coloniality.” Recent years have seen critical changes occur across postcolonial regions, forcing[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
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) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
“…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives
En octubre del 2001, publicamos un estudio lexicográfico sobre la penetración del español americano en la lengua italiana contemporánea. En el léxico estudiado, se documenta la “crónica” de los últimos[...]
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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[...]
“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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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[...]
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[...]
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The Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and the international response to it, has reprised contentious questions about postcolonial paternalism in Africa. This satirical piece reflects upon these[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives
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 Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives
1. Introdução Por mais poderosos, articulados e sofisticados que sejam os aparatos filosóficos, epistemológicos, institucionais e teórico-ideológicos em favor do capitalismo e do imperialismo, os sujeitos sociais e coletividades oprimidas[...]
"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
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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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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Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]
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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[...]
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[...]
In an era of instantaneous communication and mass movements of people, the location and claiming of “home”—as a political and spatial idea, as well as an affective one—is an increasingly[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured
[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) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
It is difficult to pinpoint a time when I began to associate race politics with gender politics personally, but I do know that it was quite early on in my[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts
“I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives
En analysant des œuvres littéraires coloniales, Elleke Boehmer indique qu’au début du XIXe siècle, l’impérialisme britannique s’est identifié à Robinson Crusoë sur l’île sauvage qu’il s’efforçait de civiliser. Correspondant à[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine
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[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives
Editor’s note: Given the timeliness of the content, this Academic Dispatch is an advance release of Issue II, Volume I, which will be released in full in the coming weeks. ****** The[...]
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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[...]
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[...]
