Dheepan, un film postcolonial

Globalization and Postcolonial States

Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

What is Postcolonial Literature ?

In a broad sense, postcolonial literature is writing which has been “affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day” (Ashcroft et al, 2). In India’s case, this includes novels, poetry, and drama which were written both during and after the British Raj or “Reign,” which came to a formal conclusion with Indian Independence in August 1947. Although writing from...

Postcolonial translation: theory and practice

Un petit cercle, un grand exemple (دایره‌ای کوچک، سرمشقی بزرگ )

نام هانری کربن با دو دایره گره خورده است: دایرة ارانوس و دایرة تهران؛ دایره‌هایی که مطابق منظر کربن، می‌توان آنها را به‌درستی رمزی و مثالی خواند. این مقاله به دایرة تهران اختصاص دارد، دایره‌ای تحقیقی که با حضور اندیشمندانی چند، و با محوریت دو شخصیت از شرق و غرب، علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبایی و هانری کربن، شکل می‌گرفت. برغم همه مشکلات فنی و فیزیکی ارتباط کلامی، این دو مرد، به خوبی با یکدیگر «مقاب...