Postcolonial Practice of Interfaith With-ness

Postcolonial translation: theory and practice

Measuring XML Structured-ness with Entropy

XML is semi-structured. It can be used to annotate unstructured data, to represent structured data and almost anything in-between. Yet, it is unclear how to formally characterize, yet to quantify, structuredness of XML. In this paper we propose and evaluate entropy-based metrics for XML structured-ness. The metrics measure the structural uniformity of path and subtrees, respectively. We empiric...

Globalization and Postcolonial States

Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

What is Postcolonial Literature ?

In a broad sense, postcolonial literature is writing which has been “affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day” (Ashcroft et al, 2). In India’s case, this includes novels, poetry, and drama which were written both during and after the British Raj or “Reign,” which came to a formal conclusion with Indian Independence in August 1947. Although writing from...