#Postcolonial

Sritama Chatterjee

I am writing this thread to think aloud the complex relationship that I have with Postcolonial Studies at the moment1/n I have to acknowledge that Presidency did train me well,

English Faculty Lib

Hi everyone! My name's Ian Wang, I'm a second-year English student here at Cambridge, and I'm the first of a series of students who are taking over the Library's social

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is there a book you've read in the past month or so that took your mind off the pandemic, however temporarily? For me, it's Natalie Diaz's POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM. I've

Socialism with Welsh characteristics.

Read 2 articles today: one on "postcolonial" Wales and one on Welsh slave owners in the Caribbean. The second essay made the former, describing Wales as a "postcolonial" country absolutely

At Concordia the Women's/Gender Studies program has 8 faculty members, out of 1089 full-time faculty and librarians and 1330 part-time faculty. There's no postcolonial program; 5 courses across the university

You know, there's a way U.S. scholars are completely uninterested in Claude McKay *as* Jamaican, and will happily use "Black Diaspora" and "Black Atlantic" to unthink Jamaica.It irritates me. A

Kevork Oskanian

1/ Happy to have found this monograph - an excellent postcolonial view on depictions of Poland and Ukraine in 19th-century Russian literature. 2/ Twitter Synopsis:The Poles are latinised, Catholicised, fake

1/DECOLONIZINGGENDERThis decolonizing gender event promoted by Billion Dollar brand Lulu Lemon says "resist capitalism."What is decolonizing?Why would I do it to my gender?How do Billion Dollar brands resist capitalism?All this

And while we're on the subject of systemic racism in academia, how about cancelling expensive tests like TOEFL and IELTS. They do nothing but verify we are brown sahibs: rich

I'm convinced American discourse is fundamentally incapable of engaging with South Asian culture/history/society in any complex way. Conversations about identity are always vexed either in culturally essentialist/racist "curry peop

I get the rejoinder that “Jamaica is a Black nation” in response to creole multiracial nationalism’s call of “out of many one people,” but I wonder if it takes for

It is a well known fact that there were many alternative plans for how the postcolonial republic(s) are going to be organized. Some of them involved letting Bengal remain undivided.

Mia マルシー

Weird things about English that irritate me, a thread: Experience as a plural. The native speaker fallacy. As a TCK postcolonial child, this needs to be said. This isn't just

Bourgeois liberals' self-flagellation about the British empire is not genuine guilt. It's arrogance masquerading as humility. It's a performance that gives them a high status in their political circles while

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MarginalScribb1

That's a cynical approach to why various 'Hindu' sects and cults have asserted they're not Hindu. It's often about maintaining the identity of the group or a group integrity and

Speaking of the Labour manifesto and how to teach the history and legacies of the Empire - here is the revised version of the (provisionally) 12 guidelines of how to