Put differently: is it possible to find the conceptual means with which to oppose the central postulate of internal, text-based literary criticism—the total rupture between text and world? Can we propose any theoretical and practical tools that could combat the governing principle of the autonomy of the text, or the alleged independence of the linguistic sphere? To date, the answers given to th...

Peter Kilroy King’s College London London, UK Abstract Drawing on the ields of postcolonial studies and media theory, this article analyzes Frances Calvert’s 1990 documentary, Talking Broken, which, inter alia, looks at the role of space, place and media amongst Australia’s “other” Indigenous community, Torres Strait Islanders. he article explores the historical and geographical complexity of t...

and postcoloniality, but China has been an empire in the modern sense since the mid– eighteenth century, when it conquered vast lands north and west of “China proper.”1 his history has been largely hidden from view because of two unacknowledged obsessions: the fetishization of Western empires over other empires and the prevailing discourse of Chinese victimhood at the hands of Western empires. ...

This research aims to analyse selected poems from the anthology, Collection of Poems by Kenneth Maswabi (2020), that deal with social stratification as a source xenophobia. Postcolonial theory is and adopted for purpose analysis texts under study. The applying postcolonial appropriately contextualize text while analyzing it standpoint. To address impact xenophobia its link stratification, three...

Decolonization challenged people across the globe to define their place in a new postcolonial order. This challenge was felt in international political and economic affairs, but it also affected daily lives across the globe. The history of fair trade activism as seen from the Netherlands highlights how citizens in the North grappled to position themselves in a postcolonial consumer society. Int...

The central problematic of Minor Transnationalism is that of multiple determination in the context of subject formation or identity formation. The editors make the point clearly in their fine introduction and the contributors largely agree, in analyses evoking an exceedingly diverse range of socio-economic contexts and material conditions, that postcolonial theory tends to lapse into binary hab...