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TC Postcolonial Studies

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  • Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, TC History and Literature, TC Postcolonial Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Grotesque in literature, Postcolonialism, McDonagh, Martin, Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    martin mcdonagh, Grotesque, Congo, king leopold, rubber

  • “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes”

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American, TC History and Literature, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Political refugees, Iraq War (2003-2011), Assimilation (Sociology), Abjection in literature
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women

    Author(s):
    Sana Asif (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Gender Studies, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, Place Studies, TC Memory Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Muslim women, Partition of India (India , Cultural property, Collective memory, South Asia
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    memory studies, Partition of India, urban architecture, Urban memory

  • What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture?

    Author(s):
    Hania A.M. Nashef (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    LLC Arabic, MS Screen Arts and Culture, MS Visual Culture, TC Popular Culture, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    United Arab Emirates, Feature films, Comedy films, Horror films, Nationalism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    culture, Arab cinema, national identity

  • The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims

    Author(s):
    Shakil Rabbi (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LSL Language and Society, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Folklore, Conversion, South Asia, Literary form, Islam, Language and languages, Bengali literature, Popular culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Book chapter

  • Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint

    Author(s):
    John Gruesser (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American Forum, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Publishers and publishing, Religious education, Education, Higher, Fiction, African American Baptists
    Item Type:
    Presentation

  • Poe's Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in "Hop-Frog"

    Author(s):
    John Gruesser (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Periodicals, World politics, Disabilities, Dwarfism, Imperialism, Short stories, Marginalia, Said, Edward W.
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Poe, Edward W. Said

  • The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Critical Disability Studies, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Disability Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Reading disability, Masculinity in literature, Sudan, Afghanistan
    Item Type:
    Abstract
    Tag(s):
    Khaled Hosseini, Leila Abuleila, Sudan, Afghanistan, disabilty, masculinity

  • Hydrocolonial Johannesburg

    Author(s):
    Louise Bethlehem (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global South, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Speculative fiction, Intertextuality
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics

    Author(s):
    Daniel Williams (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    British literature, Nineteenth century, American literature, Poetry, Weather, Climatology, Ocean
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    gerard manley hopkins, sidney lanier, Derek Walcott, Climate, ocean, 19th-century British literature, 19th-century American literature, Weather and climate, Oceans

  • Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek

    Author(s):
    Arif Camoglu (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global South, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Postcolonialism, Turkey, Turkish literature, 1288-1918, Imperialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    postcolonial, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman literature

  • Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public

    Author(s):
    James Mulholland (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC English Romantic, LLC Late-18th-Century English, LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English, TC Postcolonial Studies, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
    Subject(s):
    British territories and possessions, India, Eighteenth century, British literature, Poetry
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    translocal, anglophone, British empire, Postcolonial English literature, 18th-century studies, 18th-century British literature, Postcolonial literature

  • Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century

    Author(s):
    Thomas Robert Ward (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    LLC Colonial Latin American, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Postcolonialism, Humanism, Latin American literature, Sixteenth century, Liberation theology
    Item Type:
    Monograph
    Tag(s):
    Peruvian literature, Las Casas, guaman poma de ayala, Thomas More, Erasmus, Decolonial theory, 16th-century Latin American literature, Indigenous critical thought

  • Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s

    Author(s):
    Jason Frydman (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC African to 1990, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    African literature, Communism, Socialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    20th-century postcolonial literature, Anglophone postcolonial writing, Marxism

  • Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War

    Author(s):
    Jason Frydman (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Caribbean, CLCS Global Anglophone, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Caribbean literature, Caribbean Area, Culture, Twentieth century, Cold War (1945-1989)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    20th-century Caribbean literature and culture, Cold War, Postcolonial literature

  • An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story

    Author(s):
    Preetha Mani (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Translation Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Short stories, Indian literature, Fiction, Criticism and interpretation
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    interwar, colonial liter, Indian Independence, Comparative modernisms, World literature, Short story (genre), Novel criticism, Gender and sexuality, Postcolonial literature

  • Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today

    Author(s):
    Dr Rahul K Gairola (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Global DH, LLC Asian American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Sexuality Studies
    Subject(s):
    Artificial intelligence, Digital humanities, Postcolonialism, Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Technology
    Item Type:
    Video
    Tag(s):
    critical whiteness studies, Postcolonial culture, Race/ethnicity, Sexuality, Gender, Digital culture

  • Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness

    Author(s):
    Daniel Williams (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, South African literature, Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, Ethics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    nonhuman, witness, objects, parody, J.M. Coetzee, Thing theory

  • Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation

    Author(s):
    Daniel Williams (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    South African literature, Ecocriticism, Urban ecology (Sociology)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Henrietta Rose-Innes, Cape Town, Non-Human, Post-Apartheid, Relocation, Urban ecology, Space

  • Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels

    Author(s):
    Anita Harris Satkunananthan (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Environmental Humanities, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Speculative fiction, Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, Gothic literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction, apocalypse, postcolonial Gothic, EcoGothic, Anthropocene, Postcolonial ecocriticism

  • Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature

    Author(s):
    Jason Frydman (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Caribbean, CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC African to 1990, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    African diaspora, Literature, Arabic literature, Developing countries, Islam--Study and teaching, Slave narratives
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Muslim slave narratives, African diaspora literature, American literature to 1865, Global Arab literature, Global south, Islamic studies

  • Kafka, the Caribbean, and the Holocaust

    Author(s):
    Jason Frydman (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Caribbean, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    German literature, Twentieth century, African diaspora, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Slavery
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Auschwitz, Black Atlantic, Franz Kafka, 20th-century German literature, Holocaust, Holocaust studies, Modernism

  • What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī

    Author(s):
    Preetha Mani (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Translation Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Realism, Literature, History, Short stories, Hindi literature, Hindi language
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Short story, Modernism, Literary history, Short story (genre), Hindi

  • Postcolonial Literature (Syllabus)

    Author(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, Postcolonial Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Postcolonialism, Imperialism
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    postcolonial, indigeneity, Postcolonial English literature, Postcolonial literature, 20th-century postcolonial literature, Colonialism

  • Postcolonial Literature (Study Guide)

    Author(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, Postcolonial Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Postcolonialism, Indigenous peoples--Study and teaching, Decolonization, Imperialism
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    indigeneity, Postcolonial English literature, Postcolonial literature, Indigenous studies, Colonialism

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