Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

Quayson, Ato

doi:10.1002/9780470997024.ch5

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“…In Strathern's (1991) view, complexity is inevitable in the cultural and social entailments of ethnographic phenomena such as colonialism but that is only through simplification that such complexity is truly revealed (see Quayson, 2000). The next section, therefore, details what is at one level just a very simple analysis of the artifact of disability unearthed within these intranet spaces.…”

Section: The Processes Of Colonialism: Control Of the Populacementioning

confidence: 97%

“…This discourse of modernity in Fieldhouse's (see Said, 1993, p. 13) mind bears witness to, 'a mental attitude of the colonist inability to conceive of any alternative' thus revealing the formulation and control of demographic. Within this terrain, the teachers may be observed as a "repressive force" which occluded the heterogeneity of 14 past ages recasting the ancestors, the strong and positive image of disability, within an institutional homogeneity of normalisation and abilism (Quayson, 2000).…”

Section: All In All [He] Didn't Seem Like a Very Fearsome Pirate At Amentioning

confidence: 99%

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Colonization, Disability, and the Intranet

Hodkinson

2013

Qualitative Inquiry

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The article analyses teacher's emplacement of the image of disability within school's intranet sites in England. The image unearthed within such sites was problematic as it did not display a positive or realistic image of disability or disabled people. Within the article historical archaeology and colonialism are employed as theoretic framework to interpret this artefact of disability. The article also provides an ethnographic sub script to the creation of a space of possibilities and how this became striated by missionary teachers who colonised this brave new intranet world. Deciphering of the organisation and representation of the disabled indigene, through this theoretical framework, unearthed a cartography inscribed by the scalpel of old world geometry.

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Section: The Processes Of Colonialism: Control Of the Populacementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: All In All [He] Didn't Seem Like a Very Fearsome Pirate At Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonization, Disability, and the Intranet

Hodkinson

2013

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“…Taking this real into account, the images and text encountered in the schools provide witness to a phenomenal reduction of disability to a “factish god,” an unchallenged and unchallenging, sometimes unintelligible intellectual monument of stigma and stereotype (Latour, 2011, p. 22). My research observed “registers of assumption” (Quayson, 2000, p. 16) woven upon “benches of ignorance” as pedagogical materials became “hollowed out” as sites of emancipatory possibilities (Foucault, 1977/1995, p. 179). These “factive texts” were fiction where real had little reality.…”

Section: Part 1—presenting Their Disability “Ancient Floor—footworn Amentioning

confidence: 99%

The Unseeing Eye: Disability and the Hauntology of Derrida’s Ghost—An Analysis in Three Parts

Hodkinson

2019

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Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Self-Unseeing,” this article seeks to tremble the picture of disability located in the pedagogical materials in English schools. By mobilizing, and then reversing, Derrida’s concept of the visor and the ghost, as well as Bentham’s Panopticon, this story reveals the power of the them, the their, and the they. In materializing the ghost of the real of disability within a utopia of hope, this story deconstructs the power of their transparent house by revealing people with disabilities as magnificent beings.

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“…Though postcolonialism can be viewed from three key perspectives; Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Homi K. Bhabha, this study adopts the Said point of view. This choice is appropriate because whilst Bhabha and Spivak look at hybridity as decentralization of postcolonial discourse and identity respectively, Said posits that cultural definitions such as what it means to be masculine and its excesses in the post colony are heavily dictated by Western ideologies left behind after colonialism [27]. This is particularly applicable in this study because the identity groups in Liberia were defined by the colonialists, those who returned from slavery came without their Liberian heritage of communalism which was the hallmark of the indigenous Liberian.…”

Section: Theoretical Base Of the Studymentioning

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In the name of war: Hypermasculinity in Elma Shaw’s redemption road

Daniels¹

2023

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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The paper examines hyper-masculinity in West African war literature. Masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, and hyper-masculinity are all recurrent themes in Social Sciences and other fields of study but not so much in Literature. The disparity between the war history of West Africa, the few literary works on conflicts in West Africa, and the dearth of literary studies on Africa’s war literature underscore this study. Elma Shaw’s Redemption Road is one of the very few war novels on Liberia’s civil war that spanned from 1989 to 2003 and cost the lives of over 250,000 people. Through the frameworks of postcolonialism and hypermasculinity, this paper analyses hypermasculinity and gender relations in Shaw’s post-colonial war novel. The geopolitical struggles of the post-colony, the emblematic dichotomies of feminine and masculine, and their implications on gender relations in war discourse are centralized. The study demonstrates that faulty childhood context, faulty governance, poor coping strategies, and the fear-loaded cultural oppression of males to show manliness culminate in the trials of men in this fictional post-colonial Liberia. These tensions exacerbate the chaos of war as they render the conflict setting a ripe fodder for violent gender relations. They also engender the inexplicability of femininity in masculinity discourses for the only reason that females are the litmus for the test and measurement of masculinity in many patriarchal cultures as demonstrated in the novel. Thus, the paper reveals insights into why male characters become hyper-masculine in the novel. This revelation facilitates a better understanding of gender issues in war contexts. The conclusion to the discourse is that in fictional war-torn Liberia, excessive masculinity is not a masculine nomenclature but a colonially influenced gender coping parading that has lasting negative implications on gender relations.

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Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Colonization, Disability, and the Intranet

Colonization, Disability, and the Intranet

The Unseeing Eye: Disability and the Hauntology of Derrida’s Ghost—An Analysis in Three Parts

In the name of war: Hypermasculinity in Elma Shaw’s redemption road

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