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    Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. Lande‚ Carl H.‚ 2002. “Political Clientalism‚ Developmentalism and Postcolonial Theory: A Reply to Ileto‚” Philippine Political Science Journal‚ vol. 23‚ no. 46. Loomba‚ Ania‚ 1998. Colonialism/Postcolonialism‚ London and New York: Routledge May‚ Glenn Anthony‚ 1997. Inventing a Hero: The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio‚ Quezon City: New Days Publishers. Mendoza‚ S. Lily‚ 2002. Between the Homeland and the Diaspora: The Politics of Theorizing

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    theoretical approach‚ postcolonialism asks the readers to view the literary text from the eyes of the ‘colonized’‚ ‘abused’‚ and ‘marginalized’ group of people. Using Fidel Acosta’s definition‚ “Postcolonialism is a cultural‚ intellectual‚ political‚ and literary movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries characterized by the representation and analysis of the historical experiences and subjectivities of the victims‚ individuals and nations‚ of colonial power. Postcolonialism is marked by its

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    The Post-colonial experiences have made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their home and the struggles and troublesome difficulties they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land‚ made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’‚ the Kochamma family is a family of tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that

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    AT – Coloniality ------------ AT: Mignolo Mignolo assumes preexisting binaries and dichotomies which don’t exist- this guts solvency Michaelsen and Shershow 7 (Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow‚ Professor of English at Michigan State and Professor of English at UC Davis “Rethinking Border Thinking”‚ [http://saq.dukejournals.org/content/106/1/39.full.pdf+html] From this welter of definition‚ we observe‚ first‚ that for Mignolo border ¶ thinking emerges out of an assumed dichotomy.

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    Ethnic Literature and Postcolonialism In Barta’s ; “Gadis Tangsi” Reading by using Postcolonial theory The definition of ethnic literature “is literature like any other‚ except that it contains ethnic references.” (Reilly p.2). Another definition of ethnic literature is when there is a literature work that contain religious beliefs‚ racial issues‚ linguistics‚ or cultural heritage. In another word‚ ethnic literature is the literary work that includes particular culture‚ beliefs‚ or linguistics

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    Dynamic Hong Kong: from a post-colonial city to a post-metropolis Part 1. Introduction Hong Kong‚ once a British colony after the wars‚ has been well-known as a vibrant metropolitan. After 99 years of British rule‚ Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1 July 1997. After a long period of western culture instillation‚ Hongkongers remain confused about their identity in the recent 16 years of post-colonial period. This struggle in identity can be reflected from the city’s cultural‚ economic and

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    A Post-Colonial Critique of Othello A Mismanagement of Mirroring Gregory Schneider‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Nov 26‚ 2005 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here." More: Othello Mirroring Venetian Masks FlagPost a comment Time passes‚ class texts are read‚ dissected‚ deconstructed. Suddenly in the epochs of literary criticism‚ a new theory emerges. Schools of thought form and take shape and eventually find themselves in the subconscious of the reader‚ who now has the option of understanding

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    Postcolonialism – An Historical Introduction Robert J. C. Young In these two chapters from the book ‘Postcolonialism – An Historical Introduction‚ Robert J.C. Young provides the reader with an in depth understanding of colonal and postcolonial history‚ as well as well pondered definitions of important terms within the academic field of postcolonial studies. To illustrate the cruel and inhumane reality of the imperialistic powers‚ Young uses the case of Sir Roger Casement‚ a former member of

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    Location of Culture (London: Routledge‚ 1994) Brontë‚ Charlotte‚ Jane Eyre‚ ed. by Margaret Smith‚ 4th edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 2008) Cliff ’s Notes‚ Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte (2003) [accessed 5 May 2013] Loomba‚ Ania‚ Colonialism/Postcolonialism (London: Routledge‚ 1998) Said‚ Edward W‚ ’Orientalism ’‚ in Orientalism (New York: Random House‚ 1978) Wittemore‚ Sarah‚ ’The Importance of Being English:  Anixety of Englishness in Charlotte Bronte ’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys ’s Wide Saragasso

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    References: 1. Morton‚ Stephen‚ "The subaltern : Genealogy of a concept"‚ in Gayatri Spivak : Ethics. 2. Young‚ Robert J.C. Postcolonialism : A very short Introduction. New York : Oxford University Press‚ 2003. 3. de Kock‚ Leon‚ "Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak : New Nation Writers Conference in South Africa." A Review of International English Literature. 23 (3) 1992 : 29-47

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