scholarly journals Colonization in Ghassan Kanfani’s Men in the Sun: A Reason for Destruction and Tragedy

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 310-314
Author(s):  
Dr. Ghada Fayez Abu-Enein
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Ghassan Kanafani ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Post Colonialism

This research delves within the novel Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani, in order to analyze the effect of colonialism on the Palestinian identity. Following what happened to the characters that are presented in the novel after colonization; these characters resemble and present different segments of the Palestinian. This research also includes a deep description of the harsh circumstances that faced each character. Firstly, this research starts with the analysis of each character individually. Secondly, it shows the mutual suffering between all characters. Finally, it ends with the tragic end of all characters. Return to Haifa is also another work for Kanafani. It discusses the conflict that rises within the soul of the colonized as a result of colonialism. This is the focal point for both works. The theory of post-colonialism is the most prominent theory in works of Kanafani. Post-colonial theory describes what happens to the refugees after colonization.

scholarly journals The Ideological Reflection in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby, (Post-Colonial Literature)

ATAVISME ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Sulistyaningsih Sulistyaningsih ◽  
Dina Merris Maya Sari
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Post Colonialism

 This study aims to disclose the cultural reflection of post-colonialism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. This research uses analytical approach of post-colonial literature in the form of colonial behavior passed down to the weak, namely the colonized who consciously or unconsciously becomes the object of ideological oppression and power hegemony. The data collection techniques were reading, identifying, classifying, interpreting, inferring. The results of the analysis of  events in the novel suggest that the descriptions of the colonized  ideology are in the forms of hybrid ideology, mimicry, ethnicism, racism, sexism, and classism. The author describes that Gatsby has reflected ideology of hybrid, mimicry, racism, and ethnicism in his struggle to change his social status to be a rich man designated as the Jazz to attract Desy, his former girlfriend who has left him to marry Tom who has reflected ideology of classism and sexism to the colonialized native inhabitant.

Cannibalism and cultural manipulation: How Morier is received in the Persian literary canon

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Moslem Fatollahi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Persian Translation

Abstract Post-colonialism and orientalism have inspired literary scholars to study various aspects of literature and literary translation in the post-colonial era. One of the implications of post-colonialism for literature as a discipline is the idea of cannibalism and cultural manipulation. This corpus-based study aims to analyze the notions of “cultural manipulation” or “cannibalism” in the Persian translation of Haji Baba by Mirza Habib Isfahani, to explore the translator’s strategy, as an intercultural mediator, in modulating the source novel’s colonial stance and adapting it to the religious, literary and cultural tastes of the Iranians. Our findings reveal that two main techniques—of omission and euphemism—have been applied in rendering the novel into Persian. Using these techniques, the translator has attempted to challenge the imperial stance of the main writer and come up with a version of the source novel which is much less insulting to Iranians’ cultural values. That is why this translation has been widely received as a literary masterpiece in Persian literature. One implication is that it might be claimed that cannibalism and cultural manipulation can be used to explain the trend of manipulating western literature in countries which have never been colonized, but that have suffered from the colonial stance of colonial writers.

scholarly journals O colonialismo interno em O outro pé da sereia, de Mia Couto

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
João Marques Lopes
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Post Colonialism

Neste artigo, sustentarei que, no romance O outro pé da sereia (2006), Mia Coutoestá preocupado com os efeitos do“colonialismo interno” (Walter Mignolo). Nos começos do século XXI, no Moçambique pós-colonial, o empresárioCasuarino e outras personagens do romance são agentes da “colonialidade do poder” transnacional e neo-liberal. Utilizam o “pós-colonialismo” e a “raça” para perpetuar hierarquias, desigualdades e injustiças à escala local, nacional e global. Pelo contrário, Mwadia, que é uma personagem de “fronteira”, desafia simultaneamente o “colonialismo interno” e a “colonialidade do poder” independentemente das limitações raciais.********************************************************************Internal colonialism in Mia Couto’s O outro pé da sereiaAbstract: In this article, I shall argue that Mia Couto’s novel O outro pé da sereia (2006) deals with the effects of the so-called “internal colonialism” (Walter Mignolo). At the beginning of 21th century, in post-colonial Mozambique, businessman Casuarino and other characters of the novel are agents of the transnational and neo-liberal “coloniality of power”. They utilize “post-colonialism” and “race” to perpetuate hierarchies, inequalities and injustices at local, national and global scales. On the contrary, Mwadia, which is a character that feels herself in a “in-between situation”, challenges altogether the “internal colonialism” and the “coloniality of power” regardless of racial boundaries. Keywords: Mia Couto; Internal colonialism; Coloniality of power; Post-colonialism 

scholarly journals A construção da memória da Guerra Colonial em Os cus de Judas, de Lobo Antunes

Navegações ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Leonardo Von Pfeil Rommel ◽  
Alfeu Sparemberger
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Overseas Territories

O presente artigo analisa o romance Os cus de Judas, de autoria do escritor português António Lobo Antunes quanto à sua particularidade em estabelecer a construção de uma memória coletiva sobre a Guerra Colonial. Segundo romance do autor, publicado em 1979 em um contexto pós-colonial apenas quatro anos após a Revolução dos Cravos, a narrativa remete à abordagem da exploração da experiência do autor durante sua participação na Guerra Colonial, em Angola, no início da década de 70. Após a Revolução dos Cravos, em abril de 1974, a sociedade portuguesa tenta apagar o passado traumático ligado à guerra e ao Estado Novo a fim de iniciar um movimento de superação de seu passado problemático e aproximar-se da Europa. A produção ficcional apresenta-se como possibilidade de interpretação da dinâmica política e social existente na construção de um novo Portugal após a Guerra Colonial, a Revolução dos Cravos e a descolonização dos territórios ultramarinos. A literatura assume um papel de destaque no Portugal pós-colonial, pois almeja a construção de uma memória coletiva sobre os últimos capítulos do império português.********************************************************************The construction of the Colonial War memory in Os cus de Judas, of Lobo AntunesAbstract: The present article analyzes the novel Os cus de Judas, written by the portuguese writter António Lobo Antunes for their particularity to estabilish the construction of a collective memory about the Colonial War. Second novel of the author published in 1979 in a post-colonial context, just four years after the Carnation Revolution, the narrative refer to approach the exploration of the author’s experience during his participation in the Colonial War in Angola, in the early 1970. After the Carnation Revolution in April 1974, the portuguese society tries to erase the traumatic past linked to the war and the Estado Novo to start a movement of overcoming his troubled past and move closer to Europe. The fictional production is presented as a possible interpretation of the dynamics political and social context in building a new Portugal after the Colonial War, the Carnation Revolution and decolonization of overseas territories. The literature plays an important role in Portugal post-colonial since aims to build a collective memory of the last chapter of the portuguese empire.Keywords: Os cus de Judas; Colonial War; Memory; Post-colonialism

scholarly journals POST-COLONIALISM COMPARED: POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-297
Author(s):  
Deniz Kandiyoti
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Post Colonialism

The term “post-colonial” is a relative newcomer to the jargon of Western social science. Although discussions about the effects of colonial and imperialist domination are by no means new, the various meanings attached to the prefix “post-” and different understandings of what characterizes the post-colonial continue to make this term a controversial one. Among the criticisms leveled against it, reviewed comprehensively by Hall (1996), are the dangers of careless homogenizing of experiences as disparate as those of white settler colonies, such as Australia and Canada; of the Latin American continent, whose independence battles were fought in the 19th century; and countries such as India, Nigeria, or Algeria that emerged from very different colonial encounters in the post-World War II era. He suggests, nevertheless, that “What the concept may help us to do is to describe or characterise the shift in global relations which marks the (necessarily uneven) transition from the age of Empires to the post-independence and post-decolonisation moment” (Hall 1996, 246). Rattansi (1997) proposes a distinction between “post-coloniality” to designate a set of historical epochs and “post-colonialism” or “post-colonialist studies” to refer to a particular form of intellectual inquiry that has as its central defining theme the mutually constitutive role played by colonizer and colonized in shaping the identities of both the dominant power and those at the receiving end of imperial and colonial projects. Within the field of post-colonial studies itself, Moore-Gilbert (1997) points to the divide between “post-colonial criticism,” which has much earlier antecedents in the writings of those involved in anti-colonial struggles, and “post-colonial theory,” which distinguishes itself from the former by the incoporation of methodological paradigms derived from contemporary European cultural theories into discussions of colonial systems of representation and cultural production. Whatever the various interpretations of the term or the various temporalities associated with it might be, Hall claims that the post-colonial “marks a critical interruption into that grand whole historiographical narrative which, in liberal historiography and Weberian historical sociology, as much as in the dominant traditions of Western Marxism, gave this global dimension a subordinate presence in a story that could essentially be told from its European parameters” (Hall 1996, 250). In what follows, I will attempt a brief discussion of some of the circumstances leading to the emergence of this concept and interrogate the extent to which it lends itself to a meaningful comparison of the modern trajectories of societies in the Middle East and Central Asia.

scholarly journals Indigenous in Jackie French’s Perspective as a White Author: Unsettling Narratives in Australian Children’s Book

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Anandayu Suri Ardini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Colonial Mentality ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Indigenous Child ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Child Character

How Australian children perceived the image of Indigenous from their readings is highly influenced by the authors. As many Australian children’s books are written by White authors, it is important to reveal whether their past and cultural background manifest in the image they built for Indigeneity. This study aims to reveal how Jackie French, a white Australian children’s book author, portrayed Indigenous characters and environment in her novels and to find out whether French creates a shift of the images as a form of her tendency to the major culture in Australia. The data were significant textual units from Nanberry Black Brother White novel and were analyzed using Bradford's post-colonial theory of unsettling narrative. The result of this study shows that French deliver a varying degree of Eurocentric mindset in portraying indigenous characters and characterization. It implies that French, as a White-Australian writer still possibly has a colonial mentality who, deliberately or not, positions the Indigenous characters as Others through the focalization of both Non-Indigenous and Indigenous characters themselves. For instance, in Nanberry Black Brother White, it appears that French try to justify whiteness as more civilized and a better race through Nanberry’s point of view as an Indigenous child character. It implies that the process of depicting Nanberry, the representation of Aborigines, in the novel is actually a justification for establishing an Eurocentric mindset through the character’s narratives, and therefore creates unsettling narratives.

scholarly journals A Post–Colonial Analysis on Modern Novels

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 527-530
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Moral Hypocrisy ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Modern Novels ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this paper is to highlight that Post-Colonial writers in English novels pay more attention on common themes such as emigration, independence struggles, allegiance, national identity, and childhood. This paper speaks about the heart of the darkness by joseph Conrad and a passage to India by E.M Forster and how the themes of these two novels deal with post- colonialism and the relationship between both colonizer and the colonized. It explains the world of colony and how it describes a group of people leaving their native country to settle in a new geographical location subject to, and how post-colonial theory is built in large part around the concept of otherness with its associated problems including doublings of identity, values and meaning of the colonising culture and resistance. The study tries to show how the apparent holy mission of the colonisers led to their own loss. It also gives how the coloniser’s characters are caught between inner moral pressure conflicts and social demands. Man, in a colonised country is also torn between the uncertain world and his dissatisfying home. The study proclaims how a personal dilemma is a true reflection of the moral hypocrisy. The study concludes by depicting how hypocrisy and moral duality lead the colonizer to lose their identity as well as explaining one of the problems associated with colonizer theory, the attempt to maintain a national identity.

scholarly journals Post-Colonial Rome, and Beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Andrew Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Roman Archaeology ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
The Impact

Roman archaeology is one of the major subfields of archaeology in which post-colonial theory has flourished, and not just in relation to the role of the past in the present, but also as a means to approach the interpretation of the Roman world itself. The region of North Africa was a major focal point for some of the earliest post-colonial studies on the Roman Empire, and has remained an arena of investigation for scholars influenced by the Anglophone debate on post-colonial theory, which emerged in the 1980s and flourished in the 1990s, often with a focus on Roman Britain. Religion is both a key source of evidence and an obviously important theme in understanding cultural change, interaction and power, and thus it has likewise been of interest to scholars from within and beyond the region. Here, I give an overview of the work of some of the influential Roman archaeologists working within the post-colonial tradition. I also consider the complex intersections of ancient and modern, and of Britain and North Africa, found in this body of work, and evaluate the impact this tradition of thought continues to have on Roman archaeology going forwards.

scholarly journals Zajełdyz. O postkolonialnych aspektach Jakucji Jegora Radowa

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 313-328
Author(s):  
Paweł Łaniewski
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Postmodern Novel ◽  
The Relationship

The author analyzes the relationship between post-colonialism and postmodernism on the basis of Egor Radov’s novel Yakutia. The two currents are interrelated and affect both the aesthetics and the structure of the works. Their Russian variants, due to their particular interpretation of the colonial issue, are very different from the Western models. Yakutia is an example of a postmodern novel in which the post-colonial context is a background for philosophical and socio-political reflections. The novel combines various motifs characteristic of the genre of dystopia, popular in Russian postmodernism.

scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF JAPANESE POST-COLONIAL EXPERIENCE IN THE YEAR OF 1942-1945 BASED ON PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER’S NOVEL “PERBURUAN”

Humanus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Rifqia Kartika Ningrum ◽  
Herman J. Waluyo ◽  
Retno Winarni
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Japanese Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
Pramoedya Ananta Toer ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
History Of

REPRESENTASI POSKOLONIAL MASA PENJAJAHAN JEPANG  TAHUN 1942-1945 DALAM NOVEL PERBURUAN  KARYA PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOERAbstractThis article is aimed to describe post-colonial forms which represented by the figures in the Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s novel Perburuan. This novel portrays about a character named Hardo who fought Japanese colonialism together with his two friends, Dipo and Karmin. However, their plan was failed to be implemented. It was making Hardo a Japanese fugitive. This novel is about the history of Japanese colonialism in Indonesia. Therefore, this novel can be studied with post-colonial theory. Type of this research is descriptive qualitative research using post-colonial approach. Researchers gathered the data by searching data in the novel that has relevance to the three formulations of the post-colonial theory that have been found. These three formulations include resistance, betrayal, and character’s self-doubt (ambivalence). The technique used in this article is content analysis. The research steps were determined the data source, collection the data, classification the data, and data analysis. Data analysis technique used was Miles and Huberman model that consists of data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Through the representation of characters in the novel found the forms of resistance, betrayal, and characteristic’s self-doubts as forms of post-colonial representation.Key words : Representation, post-colonial analysis, novel          AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk-bentuk poskolonial yang direpresentasikan oleh tokoh-tokoh dalam novel Perburuan karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Novel Perburuan menggambarkan tentang kondisi penjajahan Jepang yang pernah terjadi di Indonesia antara tahun 1942-1945. Novel ini bercerita tentang seorang tokoh bernama Hardo yang melawan penjajahan Jepang bersama dua kawannya, Dipo dan Karmin. Namun, rencana tersebut gagal dilaksanakan sehingga menjadikan Hardo sebagai buronan Jepang. Novel ini mengandung sejarah penjajahan Jepang di Indonesia. Oleh karena itu, novel ini dapat dikaji dengan teori poskolonial. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif bersifat deskriptif dengan menggunakan pendekatan poskolonial. Cara kerjanya yaitu dengan mencari data dalam novel yang memiliki keterkaitan dengan tiga formulasi dari teori poskolonial yang telah ditemukan. Tiga formulasi tersebut meliputi usaha perlawanan, pengkhianatan, dan kebimbangan tokoh (ambivalensi). Teknik yang digunakan yaitu analisis isi. Langkah penelitiannya adalah menentukan sumber data, pengumpulan, pengklasifikasian, dan analisis data. Teknik analisis datanya menggunakan model Miles dan Huberman yang terdiri dari reduksi data, sajian data, dan penarikan simpulan. Melalui representasi tokoh dalam novel tersebut ditemukan bentuk-bentu perlawanan, pengkhianatan, dan kebimbangan tokoh sebagai bentuk representasi poskolonial.Kata Kunci: Representasi, analisis poskolonial, novel

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