The African Imagination: Postcolonial Studies, Canons, and Stigmatization

PosTcolonIal sTudIes and TRanslaTIon TheoRy

What distinguishes postcolonial approaches to translation is that they examine intercultural encounters in contexts marked by unequal power relations. Herein lie their strengths as well as their weaknesses. Their major contribution has been to illuminate the role of power in the production and reception of translation. But it is not certain that the postcolonial framework can be applied to othe...

Postcolonial African Consciousness and the Poetry of Agostinho Neto

In her paper, "Postcolonial African Consciousness and the Poetry of Agostinho Neto," Irene Marques introduces the magic words of a great poet with the question: can poetry carry enough sorrow, enough strength, enough fire, enough love, enough wisdom, enough care, and enough horror to penetrate the hearts and the souls of the oppressed and the oppressors so that both will desperately want to esc...

Latin American postcolonial studies and global decolonization

Western metropolitan centers since the late 198os, it is to be expected that its further development would involve efforts, like this one, to take stock of its regional expressions. Yet, while the rubric "Latin American postcolonial studies" suggests the existence of a regional body of knowledge under that name, in reality it points to a problem: there is no corpus of work on Latin America comm...

The scientific imagination: case studies

[ANTONIO] ALIOTTA, The idealistic reaction against science, [facsimile of 1914 ed.], New York, Arno Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxii, 483, $28.00 JOHN R. BAKER, Thefreedom ofscience, [facsimiles of The scientific life (1943), and Science and the planned state (1945)], New York, Arno Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. 154, 120, $15.00. [ROBERT] FLINT, Philosophy as scientia scientiarum and a history of classificat...

Becoming Postcolonial African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship