Where to begin? 5 postcolonial classics
If you are interested in postcolonial literature but don’t really know where to begin, we put together a list of 5 postcolonial classics for you.
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Culture Wrappings: An Excerpt from “The Mourners”
Like any respectable Indian family, the Shantis didn’t use the house kitchen, they cooked in their garage.
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Kurdistan in VHS – The postcolonial questions of Kurdish films
The postcolonial occupation with art enables a negotiation that positions itself permanently against the colonial gaze, and in doing so can actually be and become a form of resistance.
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Call for Submissions – Ideas That Travel
For our online magazine, we are looking for contributions on the topic of “Ideas that Travel”.
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Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire blows up literary and political categories: it is a long poem, but at times it reads like a manifesto; it describes the journey and the search for identity of a young man from Martinique, has autobiographical features, and yet is also a journey into the past that recalls, among other things, the transatlantic slave trade.
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Europe’s Nightmare: The Practice of Decoloniality
Current power relations are the direct result of the colonial division of the world and, in particular, the organization and state of labor since the colonization of the Americas. It is why today we can no longer speak of colonialism, but of coloniality. And identifying coloniality creates an intervention.
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How Colonialism Continues to Shape Thinking in Germany Today
Many people who grow up in Germany believe that colonialism belongs to the distant past and has no influence on them. However, this is not true. Postcolonialism is reflected in the Eurocentric worldview, the media, language and in consumer behaviour.
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Season of the Shadow
Season of the Shadow reads like a crime novel, and its dark historic background unfolds only little by little: the history of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
„Go Tell It on the Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else. I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal, above all, with my father. “, James Baldwin said of his autobiographical debut novel, published in 1953.
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White Spots
Lena Albrecht’s novel Weiße Flecken (‘White Spots’ in English) is an excellent example of a critical examination of one’s own whiteness. The novel shows how a young white woman gets the impetus to question the typical narration of German history, takes her newly acquired perspective personally and deals with the entanglements of her own family.
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