Preface

At all times the historical, social, and cultural context of peoples and nations has been inscribed in different semiotic systems, in textual and extra-textual forms. ‘Colonialism’, Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson remark, ‘is an operation of discourse’ and ‘colonial subjects’ are ‘written by that syst...

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Hlavní autoři: Fioupou, Christiane, Selles, Colette
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2024
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:At all times the historical, social, and cultural context of peoples and nations has been inscribed in different semiotic systems, in textual and extra-textual forms. ‘Colonialism’, Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson remark, ‘is an operation of discourse’ and ‘colonial subjects’ are ‘written by that system of representation’. In postcolonial countries the text has operated a reversal, as it has come to bear witness to a decolonizing process which has particularly expanded in the former colonies in...