Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi, Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
Freedom, according to the editors of the volume, is “one of the central narratives of our late modern society” (3). The key word here is “narrative,” because freedom is a story which began in many different places and histories as an expression of peoples’ local concerns, and in some cases, such as...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Freedom, according to the editors of the volume, is “one of the central narratives of our late modern society” (3). The key word here is “narrative,” because freedom is a story which began in many different places and histories as an expression of peoples’ local concerns, and in some cases, such as the Greek polis, resulted in the development of the notion of citizenry. Freedom-as-narrative, apparently volatile and open to any practitioner, has now gone global and became commodified. For thi... |
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