power. The strength of this book lies in the care with which the definition of colonial medicine is made to interact with the shifting ideologies underpinning the British presence in the Sudan. Colonial encounters are described in a language of accommodated power always modified by the responses and/or collusion of the colonized. In the case of the sleeping sickness camps, authority relied upon...

The history of the colonial world is interpreted differently by western historians and “nativist” historians and ethnologists. The colonialist perspective of history often disregards an entire phase of history before the colonial period, exalting the colonialist enterprise. On the other hand, ethnologists and native historians stress indigenous sources of history, including oral accounts. The p...

This article aims at showing how the poetry of Joy Harjo and Saadi Youssef becomes imagined geography Muscogee (Creek) nation Iraq respectively. Despite different contexts struggle, both poets depict a national community through imagining decolonized geographical space where intellectuals act as witnesses to defy colonial erasure memory. will attempt highlight certain intellectual literary text...

The idea of the frontier reflects a uniquely colonial view of a place and process of encounter between colonising people, indigenous inhabitants, and natural landscapes.[1] Within this colonial context, the idea of the frontier has been variously developed through history by natural and social scientists, popular historians, artists, writers, and government officials. This volume draws together...

This study aimed to criticize modernism discourse in Indonesian high school history textbooks. It focused on (1) The textbooks’ as a national identity and (2) weaknesses of identity. A total six textbooks from 1975 the 1994 curriculum were examined using Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) developed by Martin Reisigl. DHA combines theory, method, methodology with empirical data-based practice. ...

Abstract This paper investigates the use of postcolonial theory in Egyptology and Sudan archaeology. Theories concepts developed out examinations specific historical colonial encounters were often applied by Egyptologists with little or no critical contextualization. Consequently, when using theories some unwillingly transferred backgrounds to both ancient Egyptian experiences those their neigh...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

With his Primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535–post 1616), the best known Andean early-17th century author of indigenous descent, created a comprehensive and complex work about the indigenous past and the colonial present of his time. Colonial language data and information in an Amerindian language, interpreted from within the writer’s framework as well as ...