A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires

Poddar, Prem; Patke, Rajeev S.; Jensen, Lars

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“…For example, during the guinea-Bissau War of Independence, the African Party for the Independence of guinea and Cape Verde (PAIgC) did not hesitate to co-opt African personnel who had served the Portuguese in building the institutions of governance. 21…”

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Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine

Laryš

2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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The extant literature on rebel governance takes the political institutions that rebels develop to rule a civilian population as an indivisible entity. As a result, it cannot answer the question, why do those at the top of the power hierarchy in the pre-war period leave the rebel-controlled territories while mid-level officials are individually co-opted into the rebel political institutions? The argument is that rebels may co-opt not entire pre-existing institutions but selected individuals from these institutions, presumably mid-level officials with the experience of running the administrative affairs, into the new patronage system built by rebels. That claim will be tested against the pre-existing political and government institutions in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces dominated by the Party of Regions in the pre-war period.

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Pre-War Government and Party Networks in the Rebel Political Institutions: Individual Co-Optation in Eastern Ukraine

Laryš

2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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“…Despite widespread anti-colonial sentiments among the local population in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Japanese occupation , Indonesia's 1945 declaration of independence seemingly came as unexpected for the Dutch people, who had controversially perceived themselves as 'model colonists ' (cf. De Mul, 2011;Salverda, 2011aSalverda, , 2011b and was conceded only years later after violent colonial struggles and the so-called 'police actions ', unsuccessful Dutch military operations in 1947 and1948-49 to regain power in their former colony (cf. Allofs et al, 2011;Beekman, 1996;Salverda, 2011a;Van Zonneveld, 1995.…”

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“…De Mul, 2011;Salverda, 2011aSalverda, , 2011b and was conceded only years later after violent colonial struggles and the so-called 'police actions ', unsuccessful Dutch military operations in 1947 and1948-49 to regain power in their former colony (cf. Allofs et al, 2011;Beekman, 1996;Salverda, 2011a;Van Zonneveld, 1995. In this period, an estimated 300,000 people decided or were forced to 'repatriate' to the Netherlands: for many members of the colonial élite, however, this meant leaving their childhood homeland for what often was a 'distant', 'foreign' land (De Mul, 2010: 416, 2011 Writing helped many younger repatriatees cope with such a 'collective trauma' and with their controversial, socio-historical position: the generation born in the colony before its independence spent their childhood as part of the privileged colonial élite; however, they use literature to come to terms with issues of involvement in the colonial oppression as children of colonisers and the difficult definition of personal identities.…”

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Voices and/of Places

Peligra

2024

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After Indonesia’s independence was officially recognised by the Netherlands in 1949, several former members of the colonial élite repatriated. Many among the Indies-born repatriatees’ generation used writing to come to terms with their own controversial, multifaceted identity. While they belonged to the colonial élite, they can be studied as writers geographically and temporally displaced as their colonial land of birth no longer exists. Their desire for belonging is arguably exemplified in the way their novels’ protagonists’ linguistic identity is depicted. While these authors write in Dutch, their characters are embedded in local cultures, languages, traditions, questioning fixed labels and dichotomies. Taking as example Helga Ruebsamen’s 1997 novel Het lied en de waarheid [The song and the truth], this article explores how linguistic identity is represented in Dutch literature of repatriation and how this is tackled in translation into English. This novel is chosen not only because it allows to explore plurality in literature and translation in the selected context, but also because it takes the issues of linguistic plurality in literature and translation a step further: the five-year-old Dutch protagonist leaves the tropical (colonial) environment with its enchanting nature behind and arrives with her family in the Netherlands in 1939 as the daughter of a Jewish doctor, unveiling a third identity layer beyond the Dutch-East Indian dichotomy. After positioning this novel within Dutch literature of repatriation by means of a close reading analysis, this article discusses why and how it can be studied as a heterolingual, diasporic (in this specific case, neither colonial, nor postcolonial) text. The translation strategies used to tackle representations of cultural and linguistic hybridity into English are then analysed by means of a comparative textual analysis. Looking for recurring trends, the results are finally briefly related to the findings of a doctoral project about the English and Italian translations of Dutch-East Indian novels by Hella S. Haasse, which suggest that shared tendencies to generalisation may risk distorting images of linguistic hybridity.

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“…Dans le cas de Futuna, on peut parler d'une forte influence samoane958 . L'ancrage territorial, la dimension En 1768, Bougainville aperçoit Futuna qu'il baptise « l'Enfant perdu »962 . En 1837 arrivent les premiers Maristes dont le père Bataillon qui « commence à convertir l'île au catholicisme dès 1840 »963 .…”

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“…961 STANLEY, David, South Pacific, Berkeley, Avalon, 2004, p. 21 962. ROBSON, John, « A comparison of the charts produced during the Pacific voyages of Lous-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook », WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (éd.…”

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La micrologie de l'identité archipélique: Étude psycho-philosophique de l'identité dans les littératures francophones contemporaines de la Caraïbe, de l'océan Indien et de l'Océanie = A szigetvilági identitás mikrológiája : az identitás pszicho-filozófiai vizsgálata a Karib-tenger, az Indiai- és a Csendes-óceán kortárs frankofón irodalmaiban

Pallai¹

2015

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1.2.3. Déstabilisation de la liberté conditionnelle 1.2.4. Dans l'optique de l'altérité 2. L'identité textualisée 2.1. Intersections et distanciations 2.1.1. Dimensions restructuratrices 2.1.2. Opérateurs géographiques -marginalité redécouverte 2.1.3. « Arenas de luz, canción de coral » 2.1.4. Corrélations du chaos 2.1.5. γνῶθι σεαυτόν -L'auto-analyse 2.1.6. Mackandal, Boukman -(re)possession justifiée 2.1.7. Vouloir réapproprié

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A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires

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