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Dystopian space in colonial representations and interventions: Sierra Leone as ‘the white man's grave’
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This paper explored the power of dystopian imaginations by examining the form and function of dystopias in colonial contexts, both in general and through one particularly salient and salient aspect of the dystopian imagination, which is that it can be used to control women.Abstract:
This paper explores the power of dystopian imaginations. It does so by examining the form and function of dystopias in colonial contexts, both in general and through one particularly salient and si...read more
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The Conversion of the World in the Early Republic: Race, Gender, and Imperialism in the Early American Foreign Mission Movement
TL;DR: Cott and Conroy-Krutz as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between the early American foreign mission movement and American politics, using ABCFM missions to in India, the Cherokee Nation, and Liberia as case studies.
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Modernism in Late Imperial British West Africa: The Work of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, 1946-56
TL;DR: In this paper, the educational architecture of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew in British West Africa in 1946-56 in the context of late British colonial policy is discussed, and it is argued that Fry and Drew were constrained in their endeavor to resolve the divergent expectations within modernist theory concerning the application of universal principles to local conditions, and thus also in their aim of initiating a legitimate modern African architecture.
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Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as discussed by the authors, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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The Location of Culture
TL;DR: The postcolonial and the post-modern: The question of agency as mentioned in this paper, the question of how newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation, 12.
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Decolonising the mind : the politics of language in African literature
TL;DR: Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature'.
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Race and the education of desire
TL;DR: Stoler as mentioned in this paper argues that the history of European nineteenth-century sexuality must also be a history of race, and suggests how Foucault's insights have in the past constrained-and in the future may help shape-the ways we trace the genealogies of race.