Heritage: Preface
Heritage, the common theme of this collection of essays, is a concept dear to the hearts of postcolonial scholars. In colonised societies, the indigenous cultural heritage is denigrated and displaced by imperial culture. After decolonisation, the postcolonial society must reconstruct – or, in the c...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | Heritage, the common theme of this collection of essays, is a concept dear to the hearts of postcolonial scholars. In colonised societies, the indigenous cultural heritage is denigrated and displaced by imperial culture. After decolonisation, the postcolonial society must reconstruct – or, in the case of ex-settler societies, construct – its national identity. Strategies vary from those that espouse cultural nationalism in a knee-jerk attempt to resuscitate the pre-colonial heritage, to thos... |
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