What is post/colonial literature, and why are they saving such terrible things about it?

Why is it that, in a conspicuously neocolonial global environment, the terrn «postcolonialisrn)) has achieved such widespread acadernic currency? This paper analyzes the current vogue for postcolonial studies in western universities, presenting both a challenge to its commodified intellectual status and a defense of its capacity for cultural critique. «Postcolonialism,» the paper argues, does not imply that the colonial era is over; on the contrary, it confronts the «neocoloniality» of our present times

Re-Orient?

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Clayton (Jay). Romantic Vision and the Novel

D'Haen Theo. Clayton (Jay). Romantic Vision and the Novel. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 70, fasc. 3, 1992. Langues et littératures modernes — Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 853-854

History as Postmodern (Im)possibility

Alan Thiher, in Words in Reflection: Modern Language Theory and Postmodern Fiction, convincingly shows how over the course of the twentieth century increasingly man has come to regard himself as a linguistic creature. In their early work Wittgenstein, in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Heidegger, in Sein und Zeit, still look for a firm or authentic relationship between world and word, between names and things. In their later work they come to see the world not as reflected in, or mirr..

The "Ends" of Postcolonialism

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Capitalising (on) World Literature: Brussels as Shadow Capital of Modernity/Modernism

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Versluys (Kristiaan). The Poet in the City. Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States (1800-1930).

D'Haen Theo. Versluys (Kristiaan). The Poet in the City. Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States (1800-1930). . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 66, fasc. 3, 1988. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 659-660

“(No) Postmodernism in the Age of World Literature

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J.J. Slauerhoff, Dutch Literature and World Literature

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