drawing largely on aidoo’s (1970) play, anowa, as well as lived experiences, i argue on the philosophical flaws of ashcroft’s (2009) claim that there is no inherent link between language and culture. this essay subsequently explores the implication of my argument on some transformational domains of english in particular though it has obvious applicability to the role of colonial languages in ge...

The paper explores Paul’s engagement with the Scriptures of Israel from the point of view of (his sense of) marginality, which invites a postcolonial perspective on his hermeneutics. It first briefly considers the deployment of postcolonial criticism in biblical studies, followed by a consideration of the value of postcolonial theory for Paul’s biblical hermeneutics. Four areas where postcoloni...

Intertextuality is a prominent feature of academic writing, and the ability to use sources effectively and appropriately is an essential skill which novice writers must acquire. It is also a complex skill, and student performance is not always successful. It is presumably beneficial for students to receive consistent messages about what source use is and is not appropriate, but some evidence su...

Indian women’s writing from the mid-twentieth century that doesn’t fit dominant tropes of resistance in postcolonial and feminist literary critiques have largely been untranslated undiscussed. Especially neglected are narratives native queerness, stories transgressive desire sexual alterity. In this essay, I explore Yamini’s complex Chudamani Raghavan’s eponymous novella its potential to compli...

intertextuality is one of the most significant techniques to which modern literary scholars have paid considerable attention. intertextuality signifies the participation of the texts within one another, thus every literary text contains several other texts with which it bears relations. the ancient scholars had recognized the phenomenon of intertextuality as well, labeling it though as plagiari...