Essays and Trials: Introduction
As a genre, the essay may seem far from congenial to post-colonial concerns. It is, after all, a discourse that relies on authority, conceptuality, abstraction and reason, notions which have all been notoriously confiscated by Western imperialist thinkers to justify all sorts of deeds and misdeeds....
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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
2022
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | As a genre, the essay may seem far from congenial to post-colonial concerns. It is, after all, a discourse that relies on authority, conceptuality, abstraction and reason, notions which have all been notoriously confiscated by Western imperialist thinkers to justify all sorts of deeds and misdeeds. The essay is a far cry from the indefiniteness of self and voice, from the twists of thought where postcolonial authors have been noticed to thrive and revel. It could be produced by the serious a... |
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