Using Du Bois’s “Double Consciousness” and Fanon’s “Colonized Intellectual”, we contend that Borges’s essay “The Nothingness of Personality” can be deemed postcolonial. Our study turns to the postcolonial world of Latin America, with a special focus on Buenos Aires, addressing the alienation, hybridity, “two-ness”, and the othered state of Borges as an immigrant to Latin America after the World...

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...

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...

As a literary approach, postcolonial criticism can be used to read works born during the colonial period. This comes from most basic content of criticism, that is, study process (it traced back Renaissance), and decolonization (the colonialism). Indigenous cultures were re-established prevailed again. article approaches novel Coolie (1936) by Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand perspective namely emph...

The tensions and silences within influential «postcolonial» theories, the majority of which are written and published from locations in the First World, can be explored by opening them to a critica1 dialogue with works of so-called «postcolonial» literature. In many respects, these narratives, which are international in readership yet written in Third World locations, challenge the concepr of «...