20). In terms of Enlightenment philosophy‚ one of the main principles was the belief that reason would induce liberation or‚ to quote McCarthy‚ “emancipation”. As Dr. Leong Yew notes‚ in his Political Discourse – Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism‚ “reason elevates the individual from the stifling and oppressive medieval worldview‚ the individual was believed to be the producer of knowledge‚ and the individual ’s liberties were protected by modern laws” (Yew‚ 2002). By “the medieval worldview
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Translation Theory revision Translation – The process of translation between two different languages involves the translator changing an original text (the source text – ST) in the original verbal languages (the source languages – SL) in a different verbal language (the target language – TL) S. Bassnet def: Translation is rendering of a SL text into the TL so as to ensure that: 1) the surface meaning of the two will be approximately similar‚ and 2) the structures of the SL will e preserved as
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the dialogue between genealogy and critical theory. SAGE Publications Limited. Baylis et al. (5th Ed ). (2011). The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford University Press: New-York Dunne‚ T.‚ Kurki‚ M.‚ Smith‚ S McLead‚ J. (2000). Beginning postcolonialism. Manchester University Press. Jacques Derrida. (2011‚ June 3). Retrieved on April 22‚ 2013‚ from the Stanford Encyclopedia of philsophy web site: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/ Spivak‚ G. (1998). Spivak in other worlds. New York: Routledge
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Theme: Diaspora Dr Jamaluddin Bin Aziz PPBL‚ FSSK‚ UKM Definition Greek = ‘to disperse’ Refers to any people of ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands‚ being dispersed throughout other parts of the world‚ and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture migration‚ sojourning and colonisation. Definition Hebrew ‘exile’ Refers to the populations of Jews exiled from Judea in 586 BC by the Babylonians‚ and Jerusalem in 135 AC by the Roman Empire
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Book reviews: Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi. Vivek Kumar Dwivedi. Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 2‚ May 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html O.P. Dwivedi‚ Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Pencraft International‚ 2011) Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Applying a theoretical framework
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Author Profile: Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe World Literature Today ‚ Vol. 79‚ No. 1 (Jan. - Apr.‚ 2005)‚ p. 60 Begam‚ Richard. Achebe’s Sense of An Ending: History and Tragedy in “Things Fall Apart.” "Studies in the Novel ‚ Vol. 29‚ No. 3‚ POSTCOLONIALISM‚ HISTORY‚ AND THE NOVEL (fall 1997)‚ pp. 396-411 El-Dessouky‚ Mohamed Fawzy. "The Cultural Impact Upon Human Struggle For Social Existence In Chinua Achebe ’s "Things Fall Apart." English Language Teaching 3.3 (2010): 98-106. Education Research
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1.Non-sequential Narrative The God of Small Things is not written in a sequential narrative style in which events unfold chronologically. Instead‚ the novel is a patchwork of flashbacks and lengthy sidetracks that weave together to tell the story of the Ipe family. The main events of the novel are traced back through the complex history of their causes‚ and memories are revealed as they relate to each other thematically and as they might appear in Rahel’s mind. Although the narrative voice is omniscient
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International relations (IR) is the study of relationships among countries‚ the roles of sovereign states‚ inter-governmental organizations (IGO)‚international non-governmental organizations (INGO)‚ non-governmental organizations (NGO)‚ and multinational corporations (MNC). International relations is an academic and a public policy field‚ and so can be positive and normative‚ because it analyzes and formulates the foreign policy of a given State. As political activity‚ international relations dates
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This book looks closely at character development and how linguistics and dialogue further the development of the characters in a variety of television shows. The book specifically looks at Gilmore Girls in Part One‚ “Fictional Television: Dialogue and Drama‚” and in the chapter “The Genre of Dramedy and its Audience.” In this chapter‚ Bednarek looks at the relationship between dialogue and genre‚ specifically the intertextual references and dramedy of Gilmore Girls. In analyzing the dialogue‚ Bednarek
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Postcolonial Nations‚ Islands‚ and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness‚ which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation‚ and tourist practices promise
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