Chiaki Takagi examines modern Japan’s cultural formation from a new theoretical perspective by applying postcolonial theories to modern Japan. The author’s goal is to rethink Japan’s modernity, including its long-lasting ―sengo‖ 戦後 (postwar) period, by examining the works of Murakami Haruki 村上春樹. His works suggest that postwar Japanese society has been informed by a peculiar version of coloniza...

Feminist postcolonial studies have widely recognised that postcolonial women writers from Africa, India and elsewhere in the (Third) world, intent upon speaking their identity through narrative, have been hard-pressed to write a space for themselves either within or even on the margins of the postcolonial nation. However, by engaging with their condition as women vis-à-vis that nation, or in re...

Generally speaking, in the postcolonial literary theory the other is represented as the object of colonization. The O/other is inev itable, essential and important to the defining of the subject identity in both cases if we deal with the subordinate, marginalized and exploited other, or on the other hand with the Other who is itself the representation of the imperial discourse of power and in w...

This paper addresses the institutional context and academic practices related to the production and use of literary theory and criticism in the Spanish universities, with a special focus on the role of theory in Spanish Anglistics in recent years. The paper assesses interdisciplinary communication, the impact of new theoretical paradigms (feminism, postcolonial Studies, etc.) in a specifically ...

This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the “customary” in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieft...

This paper critically explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production and appreciation of Chinua Achebe’s fiction, mainly, his political novel that deals with militarism, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Intertextuality deals with relations among texts: no text is an island. The departure from author-centred theory of literary criticism to unrestricted and diversified one, followin...

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...