Rumah Kaca, or House of Glass, is the last episode Pramoedya’s Tetralogy Buru, and it gives “a surprise,” a shocking end Minke’s postcolonial strives. Here, he died several days after his coming home from exile. This looks surely to present catastrophe native’s hope dream. The strategy colonial government in conducting “house glass” has gone successful death might stop any local political activ...

meena alexander, a contemporary indian-american writer and a professor of english literature and women’s studies. the criticism of dr. alexander’s poetry and prose brings in many issues that draws upon poststructuralism and postcolonialism. to mention a few, the negotiation of fragmented identity, the problem of belonging, and the challenge of living in a female body are among her concerns. wha...

While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of ...

This article explores a neglected question in ongoing debates about counter-terrorism efforts Nigeria: How is Nigeria’s strategy discursively framed? The argues, part, that essentially political activity which contributes to the production of specific Nigerian identity by designating north-eastern Nigeria and Lake Chad Basin as “ungoverned” spaces. construction through geography, though, has im...