Colonialism and its after-effects of neo-colonialism and postcolonialism pervade the male-dominated literary tradition produced on the African continent. Within the complexities of these realities, the African woman may be said to be “doubly colonized” and her burdens multiple. Imprisoned then, by the authoritative phalluses which define her daily experiences and which seek to negate the authen...

Borders and Boundaries: these terms appropriately describe a certain tendency prevailing in Irish and Scottish Studies which delineates and thus delimits their field in terms of national concerns. While postcolonial criticism shows the potential to adhere to national boundaries whilst embedding them in an international context, this paper aims to shift its relevance from questions about the nat...

This article reflects on the position of people in, against and beyond information and communication technologies. Firstly, using Jandrić and Kuzmanić’s work on digital postcolonialism, Raymond Williams’s work on residual and emergent cultures, and Deleuze and Guattari’s insights into the dynamics between territorialization, de-territorialization and re-territorialization, it develops a theoret...

As an area of classroom research, Interaction Analysis developed from the need and desire to investigate the process of classroom teaching and learning in terms of action-reaction between individuals and their socio-cultural context (Biddle, 1967). However, sole reliance on quantitative techniques could be problematic, since they conceal more than they reveal of the intricacies of classroom int...

Intellectual efforts at removing the vestiges of colonialism in knowledge production and power relations African studies are not a recent phenomenon. Power this context refer to binary nature between Africa Western world terms production, application transference. In its chronology, it has been existence as far first decade independence from European late 1950s. spite novelty these cerebral pos...

The 1952-1959 state of emergency is a milestone in Kenya’s colonial history. It was declared by the government when Mau fighters, their struggle to chase British settlers away and give back Kenyans land which these Europeans took from them, started attack indigenes loyal government. Thus, one can see why, autobiographies/memoirs many Kenyan authors born before independence, latter also deal wit...

Colin Davis & Hanna Meretoja (eds): Routlegde Companion to Literature and Trauma. Abingdon New York: Routledge, 2020, 496 pages. English summary of the review The Routledge Trauma, edited by Meretoja, introduces reader thoroughly history philosophies trauma, theory concepts field, offers a variety analyses literary texts from point view trauma. introduction handbook is thought-provoking, co...

The focus of this paper, which is in the mainstream cross-cultural representation, on resistance strategies used by Anglophone Arab women immigrant writers. Writings from diaspora particular lay way for challenging binary opposition between various cultures, genders, races, nationalities, and so forth as well culture exclusion oppression. This paper argues that Diaspora writing commit itself se...

Ever since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s articles and books on trauma in 1990s, Western literary circles have witnessed an interest studies. Trauma studies gradually connected psychology, interdisciplinary manner, to other cultural scientific aspects like postmodernism, postcolonialism, history translation This paper argues that resulting from both indigenous dictatorship colonial war Iraq ...