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Postcolonial theory perceives the world as divided between the coloniser and the colonised, thus indirectly reproducing the centrality of the West. For this reason, in literary studies, postcolonial theory fails to cover the literatures of those nations which were not colonised in a typical sense but rather occupied by Western imperialism, as was the case with Ottoman Turkey. This necessitates a convergent theoretical framework that might help evaluate the fictionalisation of the intersecting dynamics of oppression, violence, exploitation, and resistance in relation to the hegemonic narratives of imperialism and shape a new perspective regarding the politico-cultural dimension of imperial discourse. This article, in this respect, will critically develop the theoretical foundations of imperialism-oriented literary theory and construct it as an interdisciplinary field that has a potential to contribute to contemporary postcolonial theory and to encompass the intersectional dimensions of imperialism and imperial discourse for the articulation of the fictionalisation of imperialism-related issues in the under-considered corpus of modern Turkish literature.

The following paper focuses on women's involvement in and lived experience of the anti-imperialist tradition of Central America, as seen through revolutionary literature. I argue that historians benefit from using revolutionary literature, including both g ; Anti-Imperialism in Revolutionary Literature: A Woman's Perspective Anastasia Murray HIS300: History Capstone 05/16/16 Gustavus Student Repository - Thesis 2 Latin American literature and revolution are common areas of academic study, bringing together a variety of academic fields and time periods. In more recent history, Latin American revolution has been more readily documented in literature, producing an unprecedented amount of sources for historians to use in bettering their understanding of the revolutions taking place in Central America during the early to mid twentieth century. During nearly a century of 'boom-bust' economic cycles and a series of dictatorships, all closely tied to foreign, imperialist influences, Central America saw an increasing amount of involvement of its people in revolutionary movements. The alluded academic fields include, but are not limited to, literary scholarship and political history. The following paper focuses on women's involvement in and lived experience of the anti-imperialist tradition of Central America, as seen through revolutionary literature. I argue that historians benefit from using revolutionary literature, including both guerrilla and modern testimonio, as a primary source that sheds light on women's lived revolutionary experiences allowing historians to dive deeper into the political and social histories, gender studies, and technicalities of the revolution. While taking a woman's perspective on revolutionary literature and account of daily experience with the revolution, this is not necessarily a call for a feminist rewriting of the master narrative of Central American unrest of the twentieth-century. Largely, current historiography acknowledges the cultural importance of revolutionary literature and the ...

This text presents some reflections on certain aspects of literature teaching at the present time, contesting the reductive orthodoxies of politically-charged reading procedures and the leading assumptions of identity politics. By reference to a number of literary works of culturally diverse origins, accompanied by a commentary on their complex engagement with a range of related questions, an attempt is made to claim for literature a more ample field, of greater psychological and social resonance, than such analyses as those favoured by the 'cultural studies' movement generally allow. The text was written originally to be delivered as a talk leading to debate, and remains inscribed with many of the markers of oral discourse.

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When the disintegration of Western colonies in Africa and Asia ended the formal colonialism, the structures of dependency remained intact and were mushroomed to other countries in the region. One such dependency is academic dependency in which universities in much of Asia and Africa follow the curricula introduced in the colonial era. Although scholars put a great deal of efforts in challenging this academic imperialism, this dependency has been promoted by departments such as Department of English. Whereas "World Literature in English" or "Literary Studies" is gaining momentum around the world, the English literature programmes in Iranian universities are celebrating the Anglo-American canonical literature. By drawing on Syed Hussein Alatas' concepts of "academic dependency," this paper examines how the English literature programmes in Iran are promoting academic imperialism, which prompts the urgency of decolonisation of English literature. It also reveals how this decolonisation can be taken to its ultimate conclusion.

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial challenge to western dominance. This account discusses its importance as an historical condition, and as a means of changing the way we think about the world.

AbstractCultural perceptions of exotic nations do not depend solely on transparence of representation or immediacy of experience, they are also based on complex processes that involve interpretation and re-invention. The (con)fusion of the real and the imaginary that informs any form of writing about the Other stems not only from the existential experience of the one who perceives but also from the socio-historical factors that define his presence in the Other space. This article will be looking at how this complex relation that exists between literature, imperialism and imagined space is reflected in André Malraux's La Voie royale (1930) and Henri Fauconnier's Malaisie (1930).