SOCIAL REALISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF WOMEN PROTAGONIST IN NAYANTARA SAHGAL’S STORM IN CHANDIGARH AND A SITUATION IN NEW DELHI-A STUDY

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
G. Sankar ◽  
L. Kamaraj
Keyword(s):  
High Standard ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Psychological Transformation ◽  
History Of

The Research paper aims to focus on Nayantara Sahgal’s position in it as a novelist. It also discusses in detail a critical study of the social realism and Psychological Transformation with survival strategies of the woman protagonist in Nayantara Sahgal’s Storm in Chandigarh and A Situation in New Delhi. How Nayanara Sahgal’s writing was different from other Indian writers. During almost six decades of post-colonial history of Indian English fiction, a wide variety of novelists have emerged focusing attention on a multitude of social, economic, political, religious and spiritual issues faced by three conceding periods of human experience. With the turn of the century the Indian English novelists have surpassed their male counterparts outnumbering hem quantitatively as well as maintaining a high standard of literary writing, equally applauded in India and abroad, experimenting boldly with not only technique but also incorporating tabooed subject matters in their novels and short stories.

scholarly journals The story of a tragedy: how people in Haut-Katanga interpret the post-colonial history of Congo

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rubbers
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTIn order to give an account of the Congolese tragedy since independence, the inhabitants of Haut-Katanga often resort to four different narratives: the abandonment by Belgium; the biblical curse on Africans; the conspiracy of Western capitalism; or the alienation of life powers by Whites. Though these four stories offer different scenarios, they are all constructed with two types of actors – Whites and Congolese people. This article suggests that this racial/national frame finds its origins in colonial and national ideologies, which have left their mark on Haut-Katanga, and that it continues today to structure the narratives through which people remember their post-colonial history. Collective memory and racial/national identity are reciprocally constituted in these stories, but in different terms. They offer, accordingly, different ways of influencing the present.

Why Zambia failed

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-821
Author(s):  
STUART JOHN BARTON
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Institutional Constraint ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Inducement

Abstract:Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson and others are explaining divergent economic histories with qualitative measures of institutional quality – including Acemoglu and Robinson's popular inclusive/extractive dichotomy. While quantitative studies have sort to confirm these links using econometric proxies, few empirical accounts have shownhowthese proxies, or indeed the institutions they seek to represent actually influenced economic growth. This study helps fill that gap by testing whether evidence in Zambia's post-colonial history supports a proposed econometric link between its institutional quality and its slow economic growth. Support for this link is found in foreign investors’ interpretation of declining institutional constraint on Zambia's President as the potential for increased policy volatility, and as such an economic inducement to delay critical investment to Zambia's capital constrained economy. These findings add weight to the institutional argument in general, as well as present one concrete example in history of a mechanism through which institutional quality affected economic growth.

“Victory over Communism: South Korean Protestants’ Ideas about Democracy, Development, and Dictatorship, 1953–1961”

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 233-258
Author(s):  
Jeongran Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The North ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
North Korean Regime

This article complicates the traditional narrative of anti-Communist Christians in Korea, examining the history of anti-communism among them in light of their claims to support democracy and development. Changes in Christian thinking in Korea followed the end of formal fighting in the Korean War. The conflict transformed Korea’s post-colonial history into a developmental struggle, pitting communism versus capitalism in a deadly battle. From the mid-1950s, South Korean Protestants saw the struggle as a competition between two systems, not simply one to eradicate the North Korean regime. From this new perspective, they began condemning political injustice and corruption under President Syngman Rhee. The contradictions in the ideas of Christians were partly embodied in their support for the civil uprising that would topple the Rhee regime, but also in their endorsement of Park Chung-hee’s military takeover in 1961. South Korean Protestants assisted the coup’s central leadership and helped a totalitarian regime come to power. This paradoxical aspect within Korean Protestant history is closely tied to the unique characteristics of its anti-communism and how it evolved after the Korean War.

The politics and practice of Thomas Adeoye Lambo: towards a post-colonial history of transcultural psychiatry

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew M Heaton
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Transcultural Psychiatry ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Over Time

This article traces the career of Thomas Adeoye Lambo, the first European-trained psychiatrist of indigenous Nigerian (Yoruba) background and one of the key contributors to the international development of transcultural psychiatry from the 1950s to the 1980s. The focus on Lambo provides some political, cultural and geographical balance to the broader history of transcultural psychiatry by emphasizing the contributions to transcultural psychiatric knowledge that have emerged from a particular non-western context. At the same time, an examination of Lambo’s legacy allows historians to see the limitations of transcultural psychiatry’s influence over time. Ultimately, this article concludes that the history of transcultural psychiatry might have more to tell us about the politics of the ‘transcultural’ than the practice of ‘psychiatry’ in post-colonial contexts.

THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA IN THE IMPERIAL AND POST-COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY OF FRANCE

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 935-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNIFER M. DUECK
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World

ABSTRACTThe imperial and post-colonial history of France has inspired an ever-growing body of literature in the last decade. Moving well beyond traditional political and economic narratives, these histories present a rich portrait of the policies, peoples, and perceptions that shaped the colonial and post-colonial experience in France and overseas. This article looks at how Arab communities and nations figure within the historiography on the period since the First World War. The first of three sections examines works devoted to culture and imperialism that span the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the differences between the scholarship emerging from French and Anglo-Saxon milieus. The second section looks at how recent histories have used the interwar years as a unit of analysis for understanding French colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa. Algeria, as the cornerstone of the empire and the theatre of the bloodiest colonial war for independence, forms the basis of the third section, which considers new conceptions of nationalism and decolonization.

scholarly journals Muzeum kolonialne, postkolonialne, transkolonialne jako model świata: przykład portugalski, brytyjski i malajski

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Ewa Łukaszyk
Keyword(s):  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This article attempts a comparative view of selected museums (in Coimbra, Glasgow, and Kuala Lumpur) in connection with the colonial, post-colonial, and trans-colonial history of two former empires, the British and Portuguese, as well as an area they colonized, Malaysia. The museum as a model of the world reflects successive cultural projects: from building awareness of the empire; through post-colonial changes; to the phase described as trans-colonial, in which the former colony begins to create its own frames of reference in the world and free itself entirely from symbolic dependence on the former colonizer. At each of these stages, exhibition institutions play an important role as a means of recreating and transferring ideas connected with identity, community, and place in the world.

scholarly journals Religious Politics in Africa: Fasting for Politics, or Political Fasting in Zimbabwe?

Exchange ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Joram Tarusarira
Keyword(s):  
Religious Rhetoric ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Religious Politics ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
History Of

Abstract In the post-colonial history of presidential aspirants in Zimbabwe, no politician has been as overtly religious as Nelson Chamisa, the current leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Chamisa identifies himself as a politician and a pastor whose politics are guided by his Christian faith. However, he took religious rhetoric to mobilise support to an unprecedented level when he explicitly blurred the boundaries between functions by calling for and leading a week of fasting and prayer from 29th July to 4th August 2019. Through a digital ethnography of Chamisa’s Twitter posts and the direct responses to them posted by members of the public during the fasting and prayer week, this article investigates how this call was received by those who responded on Twitter and what this tells us about Zimbabweans’ perceptions of religious politics, that is, the deployment of dominant religions like Christianity in politics.

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